THE SKETCHBOOK

Before the story,
there was a drawing.

Before Empire of Giants became a story, it began as a series of drawings.

Many of those drawings came through a process inspired by Carl Jung’s idea of Active Imagination: instead of beginning with a fixed concept, I would start drawing and allow the image to develop without fully deciding what it was supposed to become.

Characters, symbols, landscapes, and strange recurring forms began to appear. Over time, those images started to suggest relationships, histories, and a larger world. What began as an intuitive sketchbook practice slowly became the foundation for Empire of Giants.

This archive collects that process alongside the lore that grew from it. Some images became major characters or locations. Others remained fragments, experiments, or clues to parts of the world that are still developing.

The categories below—Characters, Factions, Lore, and Places—trace that evolution from imagination to worldbuilding.