Structures
Through the use of Sand Magic, the Alin are able to mystically make buildings rise out of the desert sands, slowly molding them into shape and eventually becoming fully functional structures ready for use. Even their Cities seem to float in depressions formed in the sands, supported by the sheer weight of magic. Common Alin buildings include:
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“The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in its totality, in its structure: posterity discovers it in the stones with which he built and with which other structures are subsequently built that are frequently better—and so, in the fact that that structure can be demolished and yet still possess value as material.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)