The first thing travelers saw then they crested the hills
was the sparkling city of Opal, that people called The Oyster of the Kanari
Empire, sitting in bowl-shaped depression bored into the hillside adjacent to
the ocean shore. It was at the center of a pearl-trading network that spanned
the whole empire. Every building in the city was covered in mother-of-pearl,
making it shine painfully in the sun and attract awestruck visitors from
faraway lands. At the center of the city was a palace of pure white that forced
anyone who gazed upon it to squint in the noon sun.
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