Moth-priests walk by in a cloud of ancestors House Guards hold exceptionally long daikatanas crossed at intersections, adorned with ribbons and dragon-flags and the newly arrived Western legionnaires sweat in the humid air. Gondolas and river-ships sail along the watery avenues of its flooded lower dwellings. Whole neighborhoods rest on the jeweled bridges that connect the islands together. Refayj's famous declaration, 'There is but one city in the Imperial Province,-' may strike the citizens of the Colovian west as mildly insulting, until perhaps they hear the rest of the remark, which continues, '-but one city in Tamriel, but one city in the World that, my brothers, is the city of the Cyrodiils.' From the shore it is hard to tell what is city and what is Palace, for it all rises from the islands of the lake towards the sky in a stretch of gold.
