{"id":6471,"date":"2016-03-17T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/?p=6471"},"modified":"2016-03-17T06:03:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:03:26","slug":"cornerstone-the-song-of-tyrim-explore-the-islands-of-nygard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/cornerstone-the-song-of-tyrim-explore-the-islands-of-nygard\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornerstone: The Song of Tyrim &#8211; Explore the Islands of Nygard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cornerstone: The Song of Tyrim<\/em>\u00a0is set in the world of Nygard, where Tyrim will explore 8 unique islands on his quest. Let&#8217;s take a closer look at some of them!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Borja<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tyrim&#8217;s quest begins on his home island of Borja, where the Vikings live. A lush and green island, it was originally called Borjana in the game and was listed as such on the map for most of development. Only the village was called Borja. \u00a0It ended up getting too confusing because the &#8220;na&#8221; just wasn&#8217;t enough to distinguish them clearly in conversation, so now the island and village share the name of Borja.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cornerstone_Borja-21-e1458161661799.png\" rel=\"lightbox[6471]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6472\" title=\"Cornerstone_Borja (21)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cornerstone_Borja-21-e1458161661799.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rockwell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The dwelling place of the mysterious Rock-lovers, Rockwell is an underground stronghold and library where Tyrim must sneak carefully to avoid detection and travel vertically to explore the full island.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cornerstone_Rockwell-63-e1458161777996.png\" rel=\"lightbox[6471]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6474\" title=\"Cornerstone_Rockwell (63)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cornerstone_Rockwell-63-e1458161777996.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above ground on the island are fiery exploding skeletons. Testing this section proved quite challenging for QA, leading to giving players more of a heads up about the upcoming explosions so the section was a little more forgiving!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cornerstone_Rockwell-11-e1458161764712.png\" rel=\"lightbox[6471]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6473\" title=\"Cornerstone_Rockwell (11)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cornerstone_Rockwell-11-e1458161764712.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Himama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Himama is a smaller outpost island with connections to the island of Himalu, and currently inhabited by bandits!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Conerstone_HimamaBeach-1-e1458163644873.png\" rel=\"lightbox[6471]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6475\" title=\"Conerstone_HimamaBeach (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Conerstone_HimamaBeach-1-e1458163644873.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mokaga<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A large desert island, Mokaga is littered with ancient ruins, huge bones bleached in the sun, and small villages built around oases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cornerstone_Mokaga-17-e1458164440642.png\" rel=\"lightbox[6471]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6476\" title=\"Cornerstone_Mokaga (17)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cornerstone_Mokaga-17-e1458164440642.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here, Tyrim travels through the dunes on his windsurfer!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cornerstone_07-e1458164456795.png\" rel=\"lightbox[6471]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6477\" title=\"Cornerstone_07\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cornerstone_07-e1458164456795.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Veil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mystery shrouds this mysterious, misty island&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cornerstone_TheVeil-9.png\" rel=\"lightbox[6471]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6478\" title=\"Cornerstone_TheVeil (9)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cornerstone_TheVeil-9-e1458164554774.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornerstone: The Song of Tyrim\u00a0is set in the world of Nygard, where Tyrim will explore 8 unique islands on his quest. Let&#8217;s take a closer look at some of them! &nbsp; Borja Tyrim&#8217;s quest begins on his home island of Borja, where the Vikings live. A lush and green island, it was originally called Borjana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,35,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6481,"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions\/6481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}