Chapter 494: Hold!
Tala shivered involuntarily, grateful that Rane was by her side as she stood in the entrance of what had once been an arcane hold.
She was similarly grateful that Alat had kept her threefold perspective out of this space.
It was too familiar, even in its emptiness.
Even the fact that it had been conquered and laid at her feet evoked more echoes of her time with the House of Blood than she preferred.
The architectural style wasn’t exactly the same as she’d seen in Platoiri and Croi, but it was much more similar than she’d expected, given the separation in distance and time from those holds to this. Even the fact that it was obviously built by a different dominant race didn’t remove all obvious similarities.
I suppose when such long-lived—and even immortal—people are involved, styles and tastes don’t change as readily.
Then, as she considered it, she realized that she should actually be surprised by just how varied gated-human architecture was between cities in the cycle.
She posed the thought to Rane, and he nodded. “Well, the city leaders, for the most part, don’t make aesthetic decisions for the average citizen. I think that in the tree cities that’s not the case as they don’t really have as much to work with in terms of change from starting condition, but for most, so long as what you build is safe, it’s fine.” A smile pulled at his lips. “And with magic to build and reinforce—then verify and easily repair—all sorts of things are possible. Honestly, we’re still rather tame in what we build compared to what we could build.”
Grateful for the distraction, Tala leaned into the tangent. “Oh?”