shaddaa

Updated: May 5, 2025

While the west was amber clear, long stripes of purpling, crimson, flaming cloud, to the south and the east, set off the castled crags disposed in a semicircle round the Wady-head; and the "buildings" appeared art-like enough to be haunted ground, the domain of the Fata Morgana, a glimpse of the City of Brass built by Shaddaa, son of 'Ad.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2