Immersive Fantasy Interactive Company Needs Icon & Logotype

This is what Exp.Lore: Gloam Harbor was looking for in their logo design

Exp.Lore is a company that creates expansive interactive environments in which customers play escape room-like games and encounter lively characters portrayed by staff. Our flagship location is to be Gloam Harbor: an up-and-coming fantasy port town (think Dungeons & Dragons, Lord of the Rings) full of adventure and mystery!

We would like an icon and a logotype that is clearly legible at various scales and distances in both color and black & white. We would like to limit the color palette to 2-3 colors + B&W for printing purposes. We are envisioning colors that invoke dusk (such as indigo and muted purple), warm torchlight, and the sea, but we are open to other colors as long as they serve the overall effect.

Ideally the logo will fill the viewer with a sense of wonder and curiosity.
Attached we have included some rough sketches of our preliminary ideas. Feel free to expand on the concepts but don't feel constrained by them. For the logotype we took… Read more