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I'm playing Dark Heresy as DM, and just decided to start the adventure in the end of the rulebook, Illumination. So the rich description of the Iocanthus city of Port Suffering got me wondering... and I decided to sketch how it would be a "normal" house around there.

The idea is that the housing started pretty much with the Imperial Guard engineering style, cubic bunkers made of concrete, with vaguely gothic windows and plenty of pipes and wires going in and out of each "dwelling". As times went by and the civilians started to "personalize" their homes, new floors and rooms started being built over and around the bunkers, mostly with spare parts of spaceships and vehicles (Port Suffering is a port, after all...).

Despite the "Grim Dark Future", common folk are still common folk, dirty clothes needs washing, gossip needs spreading, angst teenagers need walls for graffiti and small children runs around screaming "FOR DA EMPEROR!" and waving homemade toy swords and bolters. Also added some baby dustdogs, the dinossaur-like animal that serves as mount in Iocanthus, as companions for children.

For the unaware, Dark Heresy is the Warhammer 40.000 pen and paper RPG.

Description
I'm playing Dark Heresy as DM, and just decided to start the adventure in the end of the rulebook, Illumination. So the rich description of the Iocanthus city of Port Suffering got me wondering... and I decided to sketch how it would be a "normal" house around there.

The idea is that the housing started pretty much with the Imperial Guard engineering style, cubic bunkers made of concrete, with vaguely gothic windows and plenty of pipes and wires going in and out of each "dwelling". As times went by and the civilians started to "personalize" their homes, new floors and rooms started being built over and around the bunkers, mostly with spare parts of spaceships and vehicles (Port Suffering is a port, after all...).

Despite the "Grim Dark Future", common folk are still common folk, dirty clothes needs washing, gossip needs spreading, angst teenagers need walls for graffiti and small children runs around screaming "FOR DA EMPEROR!" and waving homemade toy swords and bolters. Also added some baby dustdogs, the dinossaur-like animal that serves as mount in Iocanthus, as companions for children.

For the unaware, Dark Heresy is the Warhammer 40.000 pen and paper RPG.