Wow! I loved the creation-myth, the bringing of Kidrash and his nameless wife, and I loved the whole stance of the story, and how it was focussed on the city in the voice of the city as a real entity but a human-created entity, made by people. And the explicit playing out of that by the first real Tisroc, Anradin, and his perception that a city only comes by blood, and the sacrifice of the loved and personal to maintain the city/corporate life. Brilliant evocation of the Tashbaan/imperial mind. (Babylon! in any of its senses!)