Wahana

While most of the old Basaami Empire's great cities owed their success to the Basaam River, Wahana owes its water supply to the Zarahn Oasis, one of the largest freshwater desert springs across the face of the Dulqa.
While the precise history of the city's founding is unclear, legend holds that the city was constructed by Pharaoh Khematla in the early days of the Basaami Empire, making it one of the oldest cities in the Kaspari Empire. It has prospered ever since, surrounded on all sides by the harsh and forbidding sands of the Dulqa. Such is the water supply of the Zarahn Oasis that the city's boundaries actually encompass a series of slender, shallow lakes sculpted by dikes into the loose shapes of unfolding lotus petals. Each petal lake stretches out over several square miles and serves as home to thousands of colorful waterfowl dwelling in the reeds.
Valued as the waters are, the city proper sits on their western edge, ceding access to the lakes to vast swaths of surrounding farmland that dwarf the area of urban Wahana itself. The most prominent landmarks in the city include several ancient obelisks erected in later periods to Khematla and a large slave market on the southern end of the city that caters both to foreign buyers and the labor needs of the city's fields.
Artistic in its layout and resembling the body and roots of a great lotus plant, the arrangement of the city's streets and major buildings is the same as in the oldest periods of antiquity. Wahana's extreme age and adherence to that original pattern also means that virtually the entire modern city is built upon the foundations of earlier structures, and those upon even older ones. Occasionally new construction work uncovers intact buildings sunk down into the silt, the remains of archaic cellars and passages of uncertain origin, and recently even stranger things.
Wahana now serves as the heartland of the Zarahn Tribe, and the palace of Sheikh Silman Asid and his wife, Malila Fal, is one of the most beautiful buildings in a city filled with beautiful buildings.
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