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The final colorized slide by Pierre "Astanael" Joubert showing Sunflower City from one of its small, surrounding islets All right, before anything else, I think it's only fair that I address why I chose a sissy name like Sunflower City for a place that is supposed to be, by functional symbology, a stand-in for the City of God, or perhaps more as the Celestial City which is the ultimate goal of John Bunyan's pilgrim-character, Christian. In the hero cycle (it's a different li

Once again the work of Astanael brings the page to life Third of the four city-states, or states of being expressed through the metaphor of place, is Dis. First, let's address the elephant: yes, the name of the city of Dis comes from the city described in the Inferno of Dante Alighieri, the great City of Hell, which stands in opposition to the (I think flawed) idea of the City of Heaven as proposed by Augustine of Hippo (who was still a genius, though, in my opinion; he just