User:Apollyon Pal/Sandbox/Area description

The Hive
As opposed to the rest of Hallownest, the Hive is built out of brown and translucid materials, from walls to furnitures. The structure of the Hive is made out of thick, hardened honey, with the walls and floor consisting of a repeating pattern of brown hexagons. More hardened honey can be found in piles on the floor, in egg-like clumps, and dripping from the ceiling almost like stalactites. Smaller clusters of ground can also be found floating inside the hive, once again bearing a brown hexagonal color. Supporting the structure itself are large brown pillars placed in various locations inside the Hive. Lights made out of nectar also hang from the ceiling illuminating the Hive.

In terms of decoration, the Hive features many rodlike cylinders protruding from the ground, which emit a dull light from their tip. The Hive is also adorned with many crystallized honeycombs which float in the air, forming patterns. Some of these crystals have also been fashioned directly into some of the walls of the Hive. In the lower regions of the structure are crystal-shaped chairs and tables fashioned by the Bees, which sit next to shelfs of honey-cubes harvested by the colony.

Queen's Garden's
Unlike the rest of Hallownest's verdant wilds, the Queen's Gardens are a mix of both natural flora and bug-made architecture. Much like its neighboring area Greenpath, the Gardens are covered in green foliage of all shapes and sizes. Dotting the Gardens are numerous murky-green plants with translucent anthers. Also unique to this area are thick green stalks that split apart into three distinct tendrils all branching out in different directions or simply curl up in a sort of spiral pattern. Some of the thorny vines present in Greenpath are also present in the Queen's Gardens as well, smothering the gardens more than any other area in Hallownest.

All throughout the gardens are large, pale-green pathways with symbols resembling Geo affixed onto them. These pathways are often held up by thin poles, which also support unstable metal grates scattered throughout the Garden. Numerous pots can be found in the Garden too housing various plant species. Also present are greenhouses sharing the Kingdom's architectural design with occasionally the Hallownest Seal implemented into it. Also like the Kingdom's buildings, the greenhouses feature spiked ceilings and glass windows, most of which have become fragile and cracked with age. The western border of the gardens are however untamed wilds not unlike in Greenpath.

Having been exiled by the Mantis Tribe and retreated to the Queen's Gardens, numerous dark green tents housing the Mantis Traitors have cropped up in the Gardens, along with large thorns similar in appearance to the ones found in The Hunter's lair. Though uncommon, numerous pillars and statues of Unn can also be found throughout the Garden, likely being remnants from when the Mosskin laid claim to the territory.

Access
There are initially only two accessible entry points into the Queen's Gardens, both located in the Fog Canyon. The player can either access the upper entrance from the Overgrown Mound by utilizing the Shade Cloak in order to bypass a Shade Gate, or take lower entrance by using Isma's Tear in order to cross below the wall of vines via an acid lake. Once the player has entered the Gardens, 3 additional shortcuts can be opened up leading to Greenpath, the Fungal Wastes, and the Mask Maker's workshop in Deepnest.