Zanarkand

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Zanarkand (Tsamarqand) is the administrative and economic capital of Outremer. The largest city in the nation, its clay adobes follow traditional architecture of the Al-Nassuu people, but it has almost completely adopted the culture of the empire to the Northwest. Zanarkand is planned, maintained, and administered through the Beaurocracy of Guilds, and is home to the Palace of Grand Vizier Sahir Zlatanovic I.
Zanarkand is internationally considered to be the "Doorway to Outremer", in that it has long been the trading center for the Al-Nassuu people before agrarian life was widespread. Zanarkand is accessible by boat, and its close proximity to the Shifting Seas mean that the exotic goods of the desert can reach the global market at this hub.

Zanarkand

The clay walls of Zanarkand. Oddly enough, the clay for these walls are brought in from the Starfall Sands. The land which Zanarkand is built is more fertile due to its water access. This is specifically done to aid in Zanarkand's claim to being the Doorway to Outremer, the symbolic access point of the world to the desert.