Just found out about this and got super inspired so this is my concept so far. The town is called Mourner's Vale and is built upon an ancient cemetery. For the people of this place, death is a constant companion. Much of history was lost, no one remembers what happened in the time of the ancients, but their bones are everywhere.
This ancient graveyard is one of the few places of sanctified ground left and one of the only safe places to build. So the people have built their homes atop tombs and mausoleums and their roads between headstones. They've adopted the fashions they see on the statues, wearing veils and mourning clothes with wreaths of candles or flowers. So the elements I wanted to include were tombstones, mausoleums, caskets, and bones. There will also be a lot of moss, mist, and dark roses. The center focus will be the huge statue of a Reaper woman which sits on the large burial ground in the center of the town. The town will be surrounded by wrought iron fencing and the background will feature afternoon storm clouds and the remains of one of the ancients.
This is a quick sketch up I did in about ten minutes just to get my rough out.
Very rough right now, but what do you all think of the concept?
