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=='''The City of Towers'''== | =='''The City of Towers'''== | ||
− | [[File:City_of_towers.jpg|thumb|right|400px|"Obtained by the crown after the death of its creator in most unfortunate and wholly unrelated circumstances, this painting by the legendary Talmiro of Alessia is often cited as a masterpiece in allegorical use of light. It combines painstaking authenticity to detail with grotesquely exaggerated proportions, lending it a fantastical air firmly grounded in reality that is widely claimed to portray the City more truthfully than any cartographer could ever hope to do - if | + | [[File:City_of_towers.jpg|thumb|right|400px|"Obtained by the crown after the death of its creator in most unfortunate and wholly unrelated circumstances, this painting by the legendary Talmiro of Alessia is often cited as a masterpiece in allegorical use of light. It combines painstaking authenticity to detail with grotesquely exaggerated proportions, lending it a fantastical air firmly grounded in reality that is widely claimed to portray the City more truthfully than any cartographer could ever hope to do - if thefabled spires are not quite as high as the clouds in fact, the Rock not quite so massive and the Palace upon it not so monstrously sprawling in reality, still, it is said, they are most certainly so in spirit and impression..."<br>- Countess Valesca of Poitain, ''A Catalog of the Royal Gallery of Wonders'']] |
===The Nine Quarters=== | ===The Nine Quarters=== |