Sure, it could be that this is a shallow replication of an already utilitarian city. [It still makes one of those aspects more important than the other, he thinks.

He casts a look across the buildings down the street.] If Azar and the other sages had continued to have their way, perhaps this is what would have become of Sumeru City over time.

[Largely deprived of art and nature. It is, ultimately, idle musing, but it wasn't so long ago that he recalls being ordered to draft a ban against public art.]