Made with Grok Imagine · CC0 · 10 Oct 2026

Split Horizon - Reality B Silent City (near parallax layer)

Generated from: Wide parallax background plate for a side-view 2D metroidvania: the NEAR skyline of an ancient, bleached, overgrown city, bigger and closer than the distant layer - the same city as its twin but stripped of all technology and reclaimed by nature. 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, warm burnt amber light and bleached bone white. 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: worn stone masonry, dry timber beams, collapsed tile roofs, climbing vines and bleached grass, teal bioluminescent overgrowth patches glowing along the ledges. IMPORTANT: everything above the rooftops is one completely flat, uniform, single-tone bone-white 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.