The War of Memory Project

I think the only book in the FRB post for today that I’ve read is the Harry Potter series, though I do have Shadow and Bone on my list…somewhere down in the hundred-somethings, perhaps…  No reflection on the book’s perceived qualities, just the fact that my eyes are bigger than my reading-time.

However, I have plenty to say on the topic, which is ‘City of Wizards’.  As the Tough Guide defines it:

City of Wizards is usually a Good thing, since only Good Wizards seem to be able to live together.  This City will be on a hill in some place that is hidden/hard to get to and surrounded by inviting green lands tilled by non-Wizard underlings, who also perform all domestic chores.  Houses will be of stone, often white, and their shapes gracious but odd.  Perspective and distances will be a bit strange too.  If the effect of all this is rather stately, the City will be full of white-robed Mystical Masters, out of whom no one will be able to get any sense.  If the effect is more homely, the Wizards will be more like human beings and may quarrel a lot–in fact, they will seldom agree on anything.  If the place is organized as a college, do not expect anything but Wizardly bickering.

There have been Cities of Evil Wizards in the past.  Tours will occasionally come across the sites of these, reduced to glassy slag during the ultimate disagreement.

Basically, it sounds like the Good city is the one pictured on the cover above (minus the volcano).  Which brings me to the Citadels — both the current one at Valent and the old one at Darakus.

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