Curated Inspiration Board

An inspiration board for the setting of my novels in The Sorrow of Souls quartet.

Quotations

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."

— C. S. Lewis

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

— Helen Keller

"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here."

— William Shakespeare

"Religious beliefs prepare a kind of landscape of images, an illusory milieu favorable to every hallucination and every delirium."
"Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse."

— Michel Foucault

Landscape Inspiration

A Raskvaeric winterscape. I imagine this would be the lake in the grounds of the imperial palace in the capital of Latharin.

by Brinsmead

A view out over the Saeric Basin.

by Brinsmead

An overcast day in the Kredasene wetlands.

by Brinsmead

Anthems

Tongue-tied by Emily Portman

Faces of the Saeric Lands

Nathalii Ordesky by Artbeeder

TV Inspiration

• The Alienist
• Carnival Row
• The Last Czars
• Lore
• The Witcher