[Liem is choosing not to think about the fact that one of the few people he currently knows who seems to share his love of art and culture is a self-proclaimed demon. When your hobbies are as steadfastly nerdy as Liem’s, you learn to appreciate enthusiasm where you can find it.]
Well, I can’t deny finding Highstorm more comfortable to spend time in.
[The aesthetic appearance of Yima’s city doesn’t ring especially familiar for him, but he deeply appreciates the lack of sunlight pervading every nook and cranny. Not only that, but, borderline-sacreligious though it may seem for a priest of Abadar, he prefers that this city hasn’t been so intensely urbanized. The prevalence of parks and open spaces mingled with the buildings here makes Highstorm feel less claustrophobic.]
But the “Greco-Roman” aspects of Springstar, as you say, remind me of the older buildings in Oppara, from the high days of the empire. Some parts of the city are—were—thousands of years old.
[He frowns briefly at his slip. Somehow, several months and two entire worlds removed from his birth city, he can’t stop thinking of it as his home.]
I visited a few locations that seemed closer to the modern style, though. The locals called it “Rococo.”
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Well, I can’t deny finding Highstorm more comfortable to spend time in.
[The aesthetic appearance of Yima’s city doesn’t ring especially familiar for him, but he deeply appreciates the lack of sunlight pervading every nook and cranny. Not only that, but, borderline-sacreligious though it may seem for a priest of Abadar, he prefers that this city hasn’t been so intensely urbanized. The prevalence of parks and open spaces mingled with the buildings here makes Highstorm feel less claustrophobic.]
But the “Greco-Roman” aspects of Springstar, as you say, remind me of the older buildings in Oppara, from the high days of the empire. Some parts of the city are—were—thousands of years old.
[He frowns briefly at his slip. Somehow, several months and two entire worlds removed from his birth city, he can’t stop thinking of it as his home.]
I visited a few locations that seemed closer to the modern style, though. The locals called it “Rococo.”