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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quartz" data-source="post: 6482183" data-attributes="member: 40552">Remember that the ordinary inhabitants - including animals - need to live and work there without the illusions getting in their way or leading them astray, so illusions within the city itself will normally be minimal and only in certain well-defined places. Cats need to be able to see rats to catch them. A cow will want to eat real grass, and will baulk if it thinks it's in a forest. Of course, if the city were threatened... And it won't be just the city that's protected - people seeing carts etc going into somewhere that doesn't look like a city are going to smell a rat. If illusions are ordinarily deployed, they will be at the very periphery, not just at the city walls, perhaps disguising the whole archipelago as treacherous reefs and patrol and fishing boats as whales. Coupled with magic that persuades passers-by to go around, they're all set.Alternatively, the city might be called the City of Illusion just for its school of illusionists. Or for the spectacular it puts on once a decade (think Oberammergau's Passion Play), or the title might be ironic. E.g. the place is known for Iron Pyrite, fool's gold.</blockquote>