Monuments

What monuments exist in your setting?

I have a city supposedly founded by a craftsman god and populated by engineers and i want it to be full of wonders. What should I put in the city?

Scale-model city built by one master craftsman, with scale-model people built by a master geneticist.

Big poles

Perfectly articulated brass statue in the likeness of the deceased, powered by crude steam hydraulics. For a coin the statue will change its pose and offer a tablet of written advice applicable to their life or times.

Ie

Zoltarius, the Gifted

For 1 coin he will turn the page of his book a couple times and read a passage written by saints contemporary to his time. He will change poses to things such as admonishing the customer, adjusting his brass glasses (that will slide on his face into position accordingly) before reading a particularly grim passage, pensively tapping the edge of a page before turning to the next one and presenting it.

Other statues of great generals and warriors will give more "martial" advice, often being the impetus for rival lovers to duel or young men to set off campaigning. Rather than recite from passages they are in vaulted tombs, filled with tapestries of their conquests. Their tales are so widely known that they can merely point to a pictograph of their actions and the implications are obvious to commoners.

Some particularly hated figures from history have had their statues defaced and wisdom vandalized. Profanities scrawled across their tablets, pitch splattered across their faces and ruining the delicate joints in the statues and crude attempts at their destruction are commonplace.

Among some circles there is a rumor the statues seen today are a pale imitation of the work from ages past. The "original" statues from myth were not confined to a pedestal and did more than cantrips for a copper.

>a desperate undercover angel recruits a rag-tag group of heroes to travel back in time and stop an escaped museum copy of a supervillain from rewriting reality by posing as the actual supervillain

I'd play it

500 foot tall statues of the founding fathers of the city. They are hollow and the noble descendants of that person live in them. They could all surround a huge rectangular park if you wanted to combine Versailles with Manhattan.
Give them about 40 floors, and magical elevators. Check out 'Detective Dee' if you want to see one in a movie.

Those aren't big poles, those are Orgone Collectors that power the Healing Temples.

Gotta build those sacrifice towers, statues of the gods, monumental tombs of ancient kings, sacrifice towers, giant eternal flames, sacrifice towers, luxury bathhouses, bloodsport arenas, pillars commemorating significant conquests, sacrifice towers, and giant stone copies of your law code.

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A Hall Of Ingenuity where every generation all of the best inventors bring their life’s work for judging by the god by placing it on His Mighty Workbench.

Should the work be sufficient, then the project will levitate and be encased in glass. It is added to the collection in order to inspire future generations. If it fails to gain favor, the kids come in with hammers and destroy the project. It’s a museum/city hall with a glass ceiling that people come from all over to see. There are those that think the test is rigged, however...

>for you

The rotting corpse of a massive sea creature that was brought onto land by a massive storm. In my PC's first session the beast was still putrid and corpse-like, with many horrid monsters lurking inside and around the body. In another campaign set in the same setting except farther in the future, there now stands a beautiful, moderate sized forest between the ribs of the beast. This forest is home to some primitive natives who have taken to cultivating the enriched soil to much success.

>The Rotower
A tall, round tower, each floor of which revolves around its centre with its own speed and in the direction opposite to the floors above and below it. Transition between floors is made through the elevator in the central shaft, which naturally stays immobile. In the evenings, the elevator is removed, making the top floors all but inaccessible to thieves.

>The Fountain of Heroes
A fountain that, thanks to its elaborately shaped outlets and plumbing, blasts forth streams of water in the shape of statues. The shapes are not crude, but astonishingly accurate, and only differ from regular statues in that they're made from rushing water.

>Topsy Towers
A large, lavish upside down palace that an eccentric noble ordered to be turned upside down as a result of losing a wager with his friend. The city's best artisans disassembled the structure, and then assembled it in the opposite direction. The noble insists on living in the palace still, his household and guests his use special hooked shoes to walk on the ceilings that used to be floors.

>Sun Jr.
A gigantic ball of transparent quartz filled with magma that serves as the city's artificial sun on days when the actual sun is hiding behind the clouds. Sun Jr. is pulled across the city using a special cable car over the course of 12 hours that a day takes.

>Drawstreet
A neighbourhood composed of otherwise standard houses on caterpillar tracks. Whenever there's a traffic congestion around, the houses rearrange themselves to create a new road and let the traffic through. People who live there notorious have trouble finding their own house.

>Taylors' Guild
A large, multistory building comprised of a wooden carcass and special cloths stretched over it instead of more traditional walls. This cloth is waterproof, as tough as wood and as good at isolating heat as brick.

There's a building very similar to that in Kazan.

Perfect fucking plumbing.

Generally anything logistical done supremely well. Depending on your own take could be badass aqueducts, homely/effective sewers, wde useful roads which help stave off traffic congestion or just neat garbage collection/recycling etc.

The grandest works of an artificier god would likely be the ones hard for a mere human to grasp. Not just "big building #20". Or that's my take on it at least.

>The grandest works of an artificier god would likely be the ones hard for a mere human to grasp
No memes please. The grandest works of the Christian god are perfectly easy for a mere human to grasp.

Underneath an abandoned wizard's tower, a spherical cave, roughly a kilometer in diameter, entirely filled with elaborate clockwork machinery. Some kind of Babbage Engine computer.

The entire clockwork mechanism serves as an immense spellcasting/calculating device.

Assume this is a semi-D&D-ish setting, so casting a spell causes the universe to erase the mechanics of the spell from itself, like correcting an error. So it vanishes from the wizard's mind, the scroll disintegrates, the wand loses charge, etc. The computer stores spells in clockwork parts. When it casts a spell the parts all reset to erase the mechanical record of the spell from the universe, then the computer just recalculates the spell and realigns appropriately. Effectively it can cast any stored spell infinite times as quickly as it can reset its parts into the desired orientation.

It's got dexterous artificial limbs to perform somatic components and intricate music boxes for verbal components. It has a feeder for material components.

Now, take it a step further. The human brain has an upper limit to the complexity of spells it can cast and the human body has a limit to the maneuvers it can perform for somatic components and the human voice for verbal components. The computer has none of these limitations. It has rearrangeable fabricated limbs and its music box can enter ranges far above and below human hearing. The clockwork on which it stores spells is vast enough to fill the machine's entire cavern with a single mechanical spell. The machine can theoretically learn and cast spells that are outside of human comprehension, spells that go beyond our petty notions of "PC levels." It could rewrite the universe with a Power Word. Close examination may indicate that it already has done so.

And it's shut down thanks to nobody stoking the boilers that proved steam to keep it powered. Depending on how stupid the PCs are, they might attempt to power it back up and see what happens.

Holy crap, that's an awesome idea, user. I absolutely love concepts like that.

The Machine is made of wood and metal but nobody can recognize the specific variety of ore or species of tree. If there's writing anywhere within it, nobody knows the language.

It already rewrote reality and is the last remainder of the former Real World that originally created it.

All kinds. Tall obelisks, ruins of ancient cities, statues of people buried up to the neck, mountains carved in the likeness of ancients

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post baller ass monuments

>1,320 TONS
>190 FEET TALL
Does the Mighty Guan Yu count?

Made in North Korea. Cool fact: North Korean sculptors are extremely successful globally with commissions.