Ruins of the Old Kingdoms

Description

Lost cities, overgrown temples, and halls the forest has taken back.

A tree has come up through the floor of the great hall. Ivy has reached the battlements, the aqueduct still strides across the valley, and a fox crosses the empty plaza at dusk. The most intricate stonework in the collection.

Inside you'll find 60 original full-page fantasy scenes, every one a complete world rather than a floating object on an empty page.

Each page has foreground detail, one clear subject in the middle and a receding background, drawn with clean outlines and open shapes to color. It's detailed enough to be absorbing and open enough to be relaxing. For a gentler cottagecore page, try The Honeywick Collection or The Cozy Cottage Collection.

What you’ll color in Ruins of the Old Kingdoms

• Temple fronts swallowed by the roots of great trees
• Colonnades, vaulted halls, and grand stairs to broken gateways
• Aqueducts, arch bridges, and flooded canal streets
• Mosaic floors uncovered under drifted sand
• Carved reliefs, obelisks, and rune-cut doorways
• Amphitheatres, bell towers, and cloisters full of snow

All 60 pages

Every design is different. Here’s the whole book, page by page:

1. A temple front swallowed by the roots of a great tree
2. A colonnade running the length of a grass-floored hall
3. A grand stair climbing to a broken gateway
4. A flooded throne room with water to the dais
5. An aqueduct striding across a green valley
6. A mosaic floor uncovered under drifted sand
7. A bell tower with its cracked bell still hanging
8. A courtyard fountain gone dry and full of leaves
9. An amphitheatre with saplings growing between the seats
10. A vaulted hall lit by a hole in its own roof
11. A keep wall with ivy climbing to the battlements
12. A canal street between two ruined facades
13. An obelisk standing alone in a field of long grass
14. A library of empty stone niches open to the weather
15. A bridge arching over a gorge to a ruined gatehouse
16. A fresco wall with its colours still faintly showing
17. A toppled statue lying across a flight of steps
18. A portcullis rusted half-open in a dark arch
19. A temple sunk to its capitals in a still lake
20. A desert palace buried to its arches in sand
21. A snow-filled cloister with columns on all four sides
22. A hall of carved reliefs telling a forgotten story
23. A fox crossing an empty flagstone plaza at dusk
24. A broken tower with a stair spiralling up to nothing
25. A moonlit gate with the ruined city beyond
26. A banyan grown straight through a temple roof
27. A rune-cut doorway in a basalt wall
28. A terrace of fallen columns above a green valley
29. A cistern hall with light falling on still water
30. Wild cats sunning themselves on warm ruined stone
31. A cracked dome open to a dawn sky
32. A processional way lined with broken statues
33. A hall where tattered banners still hang from the beams
34. A cliff-side monastery half fallen into the sea
35. A mist-filled square at first light
36. A deer stepping through a ruined doorway
37. A marble bath house with its pool full of rainwater
38. An overgrown stair descending into a dark undercroft
39. A granite wall of niches and empty brackets
40. A gatehouse with the road running out into the grass
41. A temple pool with lotus growing between the columns
42. A battlement walk with the whole ruined city below
43. A great hall floor cracked open by a single tree
44. An arch bridge over a jade-green canal
45. A treasury door standing open on empty shelves
46. A hillside of ruins under a low autumn sun
47. A well shaft with ferns growing down its walls
48. A sandstone temple glowing at sunset
49. A colonnade with birds nesting in every capital
50. A moon-shadowed cloister garden
51. A collapsed bridge with only its arches left standing
52. A lantern-lit passage beneath the old keep
53. An obelisk avenue lost in tall summer grass
54. A chapel with its frescoes open to the rain
55. A mountain fortress gate under snow
56. A fountain court reclaimed by wildflowers
57. A stair down to a flooded lower street
58. A brazier hall with cold ash and a fallen roof
59. A marble amphitheatre facing the setting sun
60. The whole lost city seen from the ridge at dawn

Specifications

How detailed is it?

Medium to high detail: stonework, columns and arches with ivy and wildflowers growing through. Many pages have a long open path or sky to balance the masonry, and the single obelisk and fountain pages are quicker.

Ruins of the Old Kingdoms suits adults and teens alike — a calm, screen-free hour for fantasy readers, gamers, and anyone who colors to unwind. Because it’s a download, you can print the pages and give them in a folder, or send the file to someone who prints at home.

More from The Emberwilde Collection

Ruins of the Old Kingdoms is book 8 of the ten-book The Emberwilde Collection. It’s also part of The Emberwilde Places & Realms Trio (three books for $16.99), and of The Complete Emberwilde Collection, all ten books for $39.99. Not sure yet? Print the free sampler: one page from every book.

Looking for more like this? See all our fantasy coloring pages.

Good to know

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