The palette

A dark gate in a lighter wall: tuff bricks with a little polished tuff for the façade, polished deepslate for its pilasters and frames, polished blackstone bricks and deepslate tiles for the doors, pillars, lintel and terrace. Gold blocks draw every line that matters; shroomlight and magma glow; the mountain is stone, andesite, tuff and deepslate.

Techniques

• Dark on light
• Stepped shapes
• Gold as lines
• Carved into a mountain
• Light from inside

The steps

1. The mountain's foot
2. The mountain: its peaks
3. Terrace
4. Grand stair and cheek walls
5. Façade: the lower half and the great doors
6. Façade: the runic band and the glowing slits
7. Door frames
8. Pillars: bases and fluted shafts
9. Capitals
10. Lintel carved with runes
11. Stepped crown
12. Braziers

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