Eternal Empire

Travelling through Frissia is an exploration of a real melting pot of ideas; look out for temples, cathedrals and churches in many styles, and iconic buildings like the coliseum and the tower of Babylon. But each has DaftStar’s unique twist. “I always just took the basic idea of those real life buildings and cities and wanted to build them my way and not recreate them exactly.”

Even these urban areas aren’t all buildings; DaftStar has done a great job planting trees and flowers in between the white stone walls, as well as on the balconies and roofs. If you look closely, you can even see sheep flocking in some areas!

It’s these cities that he considers to be his favourite part of the build. In a world this big, it seems like it might be hard to choose, but he thinks that he’s become a much better builder since he first began working on Frissia four years ago.

“Throughout the empire the style changes and the buildings get better and more detailed.” For example, he tells me that the cities have utilities like “parliaments, theatres, palaces, banks, schools, and so on.” On the other hand, he calls some of his earlier buildings “quite basic, rough, and weird!”

“I think my building style improved drastically over these four years,” he summarises. These recent, detailed metropolises can be found in the far east and far south of the empire, and in case it’s tricky to figure out his directions, Daftstar even has a handy colour-coded map for explorers to use.

It makes sense that he would want people to see his best work, but I think it’s quite interesting to be able to see all of his progress within the world. Not only does the empire span many different areas in its inspiration, it shows off the progress of its builder, too.