Xelath Dum: Aboard Muninn

Continuing the Legend of Xelath Dum, which I started about 1 1/2 years ago with this shot here: trrazor.deviantart.com/art/Gua….
I wanted to come up with a semi-decent back story for the images which are meant to show you life in and around Xelath Dum after the great wars of 25819 B.L.

Almost all life on Planet Earth had perished due to bombings with geophysical warheads loaded with freon that would be shot into the atmosphere over the enemy.
Once they had reached the ozone layer, those weapons would detonate causing the layer to tear.
Every enemy that didn't change position by about 100km in a matter of 7 minutes would get heavy skin burns on a sunny day and the ultraviolet rays would cause cancer cells to grow rapidly.
Agriculture was almost impossible in these areas after a Ozone Breaker - as they would call it later - had detonated.

In Xelath Dum, samples of genetic code from every single specimen, that used to exist on planet earth, before the great wars, are being held.

Some more intimate shots of Sil, one of the Xelath Dum mercenary guardians followed here trrazor.deviantart.com/art/Ins… and here trrazor.deviantart.com/art/Xel… followed, which showed the life inside the research station and possible - mankinds last hope.

Xelath Dums elite commandos called "The Overseers" are portayed here: trrazor.deviantart.com/art/The…


In this new shot, you get to take a rare look inside the cockpit of one of the two recon dropships of Xelath Dum.
They're called Munnin and Huginn just like the two ravens in Norse mythology. They fly over Midgard bringing information to the god Odin - or in this case, collect necessary information and collect samples which - one day - are supposed to lead to the return of mankind on planet Earth.

They set out frequently on recon missions, with a crew typically consisting out of 20-30 men and women. The armament of the recon units called Völvas, pictured here in their standard-issue ocre capes, are short-barrelled high-powered assault shotguns firing burning magnesium rounds.
Taking sniper rifles or other scoped rifles with them on missions is highly forbidden, as those might give their position away to the tribesmen of the Cochaies - a mutated people living in the outskirts and badlands of Lavta, exposed to the UV radiation-levels caused by the ozone-breakers.

Should the Völvas get involved in close encounters, they are usually backed up by berserkers. Heavy grunts equipped with tech-axes. Deadly melee weapons that can glide even through the hardest of metals and armors due to a special honing procedure only known to the mercenaries of Xelath Dum.

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Moving on with the series had been on my to-do-list for quite a while now, and I'm glad I can show you a little bit more of Xelath Dum for now

Hope you enjoyed this - let me know what you think

Thanks for stopping by

Take care

Noel