The Cleft - Basilica

The Cleft - Arrival. Outside entrance -70 Bikuras arriving at the gate.

The Cleft - Arrival. Outside entrance -70 Bikuras arriving at the gate.

The Cleft - Discovery. Outside entrance -Paul Duré's false benediction after what seems to be a miracle...

The Cleft - Discovery. Outside entrance -Paul Duré's false benediction after what seems to be a miracle...

The Cleft - Basilica

More Hyperion's book series frames! Paul Duré's story from the 1st book(Cantos)
A bit of environment/research for the Cleft/Basilica - carved into a couple thousands meter high cliff.
I will put some wip/renders later ;)

-The 70 Bikuras(the natives, they look like 40 year old kids, almost exactly similar...) go down there every day to prey a strange god...
"The natives call themselves the "Three Score and Ten", an allusion to the number of their population (70) individuals. They seem to follow a type of memorized religion, calling themselves "of the Cruciform", and worshipping "in the room" (the Basilica in the Cleft)."
- They immediately murder anyone who is not "of the Cruciform". They initially think Duré is "of the Cruciform", but once they realize that what he wears is instead a crucifix, they attempt to kill him. Alpha, however, intervenes. After "deliberation", the Bikura allow the priest to become "of the Cruciform".

Some of the geo comes from different kitbashes found here via Artsation creators(mostly J. Vega, L. Aveiro and Q. Mabille), most of the rest is coming from Megascans.