Hi guys!
Taking a minute to post some of the research I initially started more than a year ago, on one of the most important location in Hyperion's books: The Time Tombs. After far too many dead ends, I'm ok with the Temple raw shapes and design.
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This work is linked to some of my previous work, both for the location and the architecture(according to the author, the constructs were made by the same entity, far away in the future). This place will be the theater of more action!
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from Hyperion's wiki:
The Time Tombs are a group of six mysterious structures in a remote valley on the planet Hyperion.
The Sphinx is a massive structure built out of stone blocks, much like the Ancient Egyptian monument on Old Earth after which it is named.
The Sphinx is riddled with numerous narrow corridors, none of which appear to lead to anywhere in particular. The corridors fluctuate wildly in width, sometimes expanding into massive chambers and at other times shrinking to extremely small proportions. Arches and doorways in the structure also vary in dimensions, with some being rectangular and others being hexagonal, triangular, decagonal or other unconventional shapes.