[Ah, at last, a simple question on which he need not guard his response. She is young, yet, and even as he is, the old fragments of Amaurot that remain within him require him to allow children that place to grow into themselves and their own thoughts, without shaping them too closely.
But this? This he might speak passionately of for hours, without needing censor himself. It is an easy subject.]
Why - architecture. From Amaurot's skyline to the more pedestrian designs of one's own home to the towering space of a throne room or a temple, my love has always been most for building. It was always among the most challenging sorts of creation, and not only for the size of it.
[His smile is genuine, too, as he gestures at the wall above them.]
Take this wall, for example. One must keep in mind the very practical purpose, of course, of separating the city from the beyond - but also one must keep in mind that the residents shall look upon it every day. It must be high enough to be protective, but not so much that it is obtrusive, overshadowing the sky. It must not be bland to look upon, lest it feel more like prison than protection, and yet it must also not be so overwrought that one notices it upon every glance skyward. And then there is the balance of the height of the wall against the view of the taller buildings within the city, both from the outside looking in that those tallest rooftops might be seen, and the inside looking out, that one can stand upon a balcony or look out a window and see something other than the wall itself.
[A pause.]
Though the latter, I suppose, matters little in this circumstance. A pity.
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But this? This he might speak passionately of for hours, without needing censor himself. It is an easy subject.]
Why - architecture. From Amaurot's skyline to the more pedestrian designs of one's own home to the towering space of a throne room or a temple, my love has always been most for building. It was always among the most challenging sorts of creation, and not only for the size of it.
[His smile is genuine, too, as he gestures at the wall above them.]
Take this wall, for example. One must keep in mind the very practical purpose, of course, of separating the city from the beyond - but also one must keep in mind that the residents shall look upon it every day. It must be high enough to be protective, but not so much that it is obtrusive, overshadowing the sky. It must not be bland to look upon, lest it feel more like prison than protection, and yet it must also not be so overwrought that one notices it upon every glance skyward. And then there is the balance of the height of the wall against the view of the taller buildings within the city, both from the outside looking in that those tallest rooftops might be seen, and the inside looking out, that one can stand upon a balcony or look out a window and see something other than the wall itself.
[A pause.]
Though the latter, I suppose, matters little in this circumstance. A pity.