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Some Vault of Knowledge ideas:

The Vault of Knowledge, obviously, is a place of knowledge, intended for preserving the memories and experiences of people more than holding actual writing.

The Vault itself is not there by nature and was instead built in the void through the incredible power of darkstone, making it so that they could theoretically keep extending the Vault forever.

There were also different ranks of memory keepers, with some of the higher ones wearing crests on their head to symbolize their rank and their prowess in magic.

The Vault once had a strictly regimented sorting system for the stored memories so that everything could be found easily. However, everything fell into disrepair once the inhabitants died and the Skykids don’t know the sorting system (and don’t have enough of an education to create one). Even if they did, most of the memories that were being stored in the Vault were cracked open and destroyed, leaving them empty shells.

Witnesses of major events were asked to record their recollections of what had happened on memories that would then be stored in the Vault for later researchers to find.

Certain areas of the Vault had designated keepers, who were high-ranking skyfolk in charge of preserving very specific and often powerful memories and spirits.

The very high-ranking Vault keepers were given specific graves after their death, which were often up-kept by other grave keepers.

This is all relatively straightforward, right? Because here’s an idea that goes in a slightly different direction. A vault is a place that’s locked up tight. This definition includes prisons, which I believe the Vault doubled as.

The Vault was not a lighthearted sentence, and was usually given to people who were considered an enemy of the state. The punishment involved a small realm being created and then attached to the Vault for easy access, and the people being punished being transformed into spirits that were bound to said place and altering their memories so they cannot imagine or remember their life outside the realm. These spirits were then given keepers who were in charge of making sure that everything went smoothly and none of them ever escaped. It was a huge effort to do, and so it was usually a punishment given to groups of people.

Essentially, the Vault double-functioned as a purgatory for people that Resh especially didn’t like. These spirits were also sometimes visited by living skyfolk so they could be used as examples of “how not to act, lest you end up like them”.

The Little Prince Spirits, Nine-Coloured Deer spirits, and Remembrance spirits were subjected to this punishment, and the punishment was effective enough that they are still imprisoned, even long after the fall of the kingdom they barely remember.

God this is so good and full of charm.

I’ve been wanting to do some stop-motion animation with my Hulkbuster figure from Beast Kingdom for about a year, and finally had some time this weekend to do it. It’s huge for an action figure, and weighed more than my stop-motion rig could support, so I used a desk lamp arm to hold it up during mid-air poses.

Total animation time, not including post-production work, was about 4 hours. Animated this using the Stopmotion Studio app on my iPad. For the background plate, I duct-taped my iPhone to the rear bumper of my Jeep and drove around Burbank. Roto and comp done in Adobe Aftereffects.

One day, I’d like to see if I can get the figure to hit the poses in my 2D planning for a fight with Thanos. We’ll see. :) Here’s a snippet of the fight:

And here’s the animation “stage” I put together in my kitchen for filming at night. The iPad runs the Stopmotion Studio animation app, which can use an iPhone as the remote camera.

Something insanity inducing about jester and veth trying to comfort caleb after the vergessen heist by telling him that the people he killed were bad people, they were evil, they obviously deserved it, we're the good guys, he had to do it, he had to do it for the greater good, the chosen few made the hard choice and do what few have the will to do—