Five Kingdoms
“Tristus had always believed that Rhinan, the capital of Andaria was large, but this was astounding. It was a city within a city, within a city. The palace itself and the palace grounds—the places, according to Xu Liang, where everything politically important went on—was heavily fortified, guarded by men and stone as well as a moat, while the city around it was contained by a series of walls and gates of its own. Beyond the outermost walls was a smaller community of what were almost squatters, t...raveling merchants and peasants living in simple shacks, working to cultivate the land outside of the Imperial City. Some of the residents were fisherman, riding daily to a river not far away with the hopes of filling their carts with fresh fish to sell by the basket to merchants within the city. Though, the gate they were approaching—Tristus had been told—was not the gate through which food and wares were delivered. There was a gate especially designated for that, just as the one they would enter through had its own assignment.MoreLess
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