As a child, Sophia Philinover was a very strange girl. Usually, young girls liked things that were cute and pretty — ragdolls, cute teacups, shiny trinkets, etc. But, it wasn’t that she didn’t like them, she just had something she liked more — the view of the city from the steeple of the temple. 

“Woah…”

From the moment she saw the view, she was entranced. Dense buildings gathered together to make a city with a network of roads cutting through it. But best of all, unlike a doll’s house, this was an environment that people actually lived in. Since the moment she saw it in her youth, Sophia thought it was beautiful. Fascinated by the sight, she continued to search for more. 

First, she looked at the history of the Capital’s beginning. She studied the process it took to build Lorentia, the royal capital of Lester Kingdom. At the time, her parents said she was a precocious child and laughed off her studies. In the beginning, she studied just the history, but as time went on, she looked at the structure of the Capital and studied how a city was structured. She looked at the houses people needed to live as well as the materials and construction methods needed to make them. Then, she looked at how all the...