The Forgotten Follicle
abandoned temple
Once a magnificent shrine, this desiccated structure stands as a warning against the power of forgetting. The building's keratin walls have grown brittle and cracked, with massive fissures revealing t...
Metabolic Currency and Cellular Capitalism — Buildings
The Sebaceous Exchange
market/bank
A sprawling complex of interconnected spherical chambers, resembling massive lipid globules, houses the city's primary currency exchange. The walls exude a perpetual oleaginous sheen, with surfaces th...
The Melanin Monastery
religious residence
This pigment-rich structure appears to absorb light rather than reflect it, its surfaces a deep umber color that seems to shift and swirl like living melanin. Home to the Order of the Sacred Dermis, t...
The Mite's Mead Hall
tavern/social club
Carved into the side of a massive hair follicle, this popular establishment serves fermented sebum brews and cellular delicacies. The interior features curved walls lined with chitinous plates, creati...
The Grand Keratin Spire
archive/observatory
Rising like a crystalline hair shaft through multiple dermal layers, the Grand Keratin Spire gleams with an opalescent sheen. Its spiraling architecture mimics the helical structure of protein chains,...
Pruritiker's Thorn
temple/meeting hall
A jagged structure resembling an inflamed nerve ending erupts from the dermis layer. Its walls are formed from irritated tissue and reinforced with crystallized histamine deposits, giving the building...
Histologist's Watchtower
military/research facility
A precision-engineered structure that resembles a giant microscope piercing through dermal layers. The building is constructed from polished ossein and strengthened collagen fibers, with observation d...