Made with Nano Banana 2 Lite · CC0 · 11 Sept 2026

Image: Game asset concept sheet on a plain flat dark char

Generated from: Game asset concept sheet on a plain flat dark charcoal background. Straight-on front elevation, orthographic, no scene, no ground, no text, no caption. CONCEPT 5 — ROOT WOOD. The Life Knot is not stone at all but FOUR SEPARATE PIECES OF ANCIENT ROOT that grow together — a root splinter is a splinter of wood. Show the SAME set twice: - TOP HALF: four separate root fragments laid apart with clear gaps, floating. Each is a gnarled, twisted length of petrified pale wood with bark texture, split fibres, and a broken raw end where it snapped. A thin bronze ferrule binds one end of each. They are irregular and organic, no two alike, but each is clearly a quarter of one circular form. - BOTTOM HALF: the same four root fragments GROWN TOGETHER into a closed ring-knot, the broken ends knitted into one another with fine root hairs bridging the joins, forming a four-fold woven wreath with a small dark hollow at the centre. DORMANT — no glow, no amber, no cyan, no fire, no sap light. Palette warm-pale withered wood #A89774 to #D6C9A8 against cold dark, with #6B4A28 to #DEA05A bronze ferrules. Dry, ancient, the wood of a dead world-tree.