Made with Grok Imagine · CC0 · 10 Oct 2026

Split Horizon - Reality A City Below (near parallax layer)

Generated from: Wide parallax background plate for a side-view 2D metroidvania: the NEAR city skyline of a crumbling modern city, bigger and closer than the distant layer. Hand-drawn 2D illustration, ink linework with loose watercolour wash, visible paper grain and graphite shading, stylised and slightly surreal, wobbly organic lines, crisp dark ink silhouettes. Palette: ink black, bone white, deep teal, burnt amber accents. The skyline silhouette is a long horizontal band of towers with a very tall thin needle-like central spire, a broken crescent arch on the far left, a tight cluster of three leaning towers on the middle right, a collapsed gap in the centre where towers have fallen, and thin hanging suspension cables strung between the roofs. Close-up detail: cracked concrete, buckled steel, bent antennae and signs, warm burnt-amber lit windows, thin glowing teal dimensional tears. IMPORTANT: everything above the rooftops is one completely flat, uniform, single-tone deep teal field with no gradient, no texture, no clouds, no stars and no glow, so it can be keyed out for compositing. No characters, no text, no UI, no frame or border.