City of the Red Crown

A range of tremendous mountains stretches across the horizon. A bright moon hangs overhead, silhouetting a single peak cleaved in two and an opulent palace suspended in the center of the rift. Below that castle, a city pours out from the gap; a cluttered, chaotic, squirming metropolis of uneven bricks and slanted rooftops, as though each and every building is gazing upward, seeking the palace for …