Carolyn wrote:
I'm pretty sure the City Proper (I assume you mean the City Proper)
Yes. I just prefer to use the proper terms, which is a personal quirk. The City is the actual city constructed in the cavern wall. Despite what it says in Nexus, Ae'gura Island isn't the City; the D'ni (as written in the welcome message on the Arch and Ferry Terminal, and as written in the Book of Ti'ana) called Ae'gura "the island". Because of that, I call it Ae'gura, Ae'gura Island, or the island. I never call it "the city".
I presume that the category "the city" that appears in the Nexus menu came about because Cyan had intended to put linking locations in the actual City on it, but never got that far.
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is centred around the place where the GZ line intersects with the cavern wall; it's more or less stated in the Ri'neref notebook:
Sam Reynolds wrote:
Unlike previous occasions, Ri'neref established the line of the Great Zero as set apart for holy buildings. Without authorization by the reigning King, construction was forbidden.
Agreed, and I don't dispute that. What I'm pointing out is that it doesn't jibe with the observable data or the maps that have been released. It's all fine to brush it aside by saying, "that's just the way it appears in the game, as opposed to real life", but there is no "real life". The game
is the reality we have to work with, and it gives us views and navigation data that do not match with the City being placed on the zero meridian. We have a very pronounced contradiction in what is written versus what is observable. That's why my tendency at the moment is to go with the written data as being in the wrong, because the "reality" I can see in the cavern is different from it. It's just about impossible to reconcile.