1 Kyros: Here we are!
2 Kyros: The Glorious and Renowned City of Rivendeep!
3 Lambert: We keep hearing these superlatives. What’s so great about it?
4 Kyros: They have a fantastic advertising agency.

The background photo is an aerial shot I took while flying into the city of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, in 2004. It's a modern city, but it serves well enough as a fantasy city in the distance.

I was flying across from Seattle in a 10-seater seaplane, which is a really fun experience if you ever get the chance. We took off from the surface of Lake Union in Seattle and landed in Victoria Harbour, flying low over Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands. You get a much better view from a small plane flying low over the landscape.