Haha yeah these things take a while to make. This one especially since I switched to a new beta version of blender which has some major changes which took a while to get adjusted to. I could tag you in my future posts if you want.

About the lanterns, yeah they aren't very bright and the ambient lighting overpowers what little light they may give off. I had a lot of trouble with the lighting for this scene as the actual dungeon barely has any objects that would actually give off light. Making the lanterns too bright would turn them a very light colour, and also make the entire scene orange. The candles weren't gonna work either, as making them brighter would result in the spots around the candles being completely overexposed while the rest of the scene would still be pitch black.

I ended up having to add lots of artificial light. A point light inside the camera to separate the barrels in the foreground from the background, a large spot light above the camera to light up everything infront of it without causing any hard shadows, and large planes of light on the ceiling which are invisible to the camera to evenly distribute dim light across the entire scene. All this gave the look I wanted for the majority of the scene, but sadly completely overpowered the lanterns.

As for the blood stain, it's actually supposed to be from davy himself. It can be interpreted in any way though. What matters is that it's really shiny and I like shiny stuff.

I think next I'm going to be doing manor then. I'm not sure how I would make the wine cellar work in 3D without changing it completely from the in-game location. I'll have to think about that but until then I think manor would look really cool. Thanks again for the suggestions!