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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5116344" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>You carve a whole mountain into your image.</p><p></p><p>To avoid taking a boat, you commission a bridge made of porceline and alabaster that is 15000 feet long and 500 feet high, and it goes from the mainland to an island home you only use for a few months of the year.</p><p></p><p>You build a floating city to be your capital. But most of it is uninhabited because the cost of transporting things up to it is prohibitive, and once the initial wonder wears off, its just a place you are trapped in. So the whole thing is basically just a palace that everyone carefully pretends is a city.</p><p></p><p>You commission your magicians divert part of a river an upside down waterfall to supply an aqueduct that is unnecessarily tall and long just be impressive.</p><p></p><p>You have your life story (the official version at least) carved in bas relief by master stone carvers on the famous walls of a fortified city, rendering them easily scaled.</p><p></p><p>You begin a project involving stone statues of various sizes (up to 150' high) erected so that everyone anywhere in your empire will be able to turn in at least one direction and see your image. This project is estimated to require 44000000 statues. Only 43,860,000 to go.</p><p></p><p>You create a vast 'garden' of fantastic permenent illusions, pyrotechnics, and colored everburning lantern.</p><p></p><p>Using large numbers of teleportation portals, you link several of your palaces in vastly removed portions of the continent in such a way that from the interior they seem to be a single connected structure.</p><p></p><p>You collect the largest collection of uselessly and frivously animated objects and constructs in the world, and fill a vast whimsical palace with your toys.</p><p></p><p>You convert a 100 square mile area about a particularly important holy site into a vast walled garden and temple complex, hoping to please some diety (for extra madness, its the goddess of chastity that the emporer by way of the gift hopes to seduce).</p><p></p><p>You commision a 60' diameter scale model of the world, which is to be complete and to scale in every detail. It's covered with 1/4" high mountains made of jade and mother of pearl, and 1/4" deep ocean basins lined with lapis lazuli and containing thin sheets of water held in place by tiny fields of force. Tiny 1/4" high cloud systems slowly drift over the surface, and teeny cities light up as it passes into shadows. Hangs in the air slowly turning in your football stadium sized study/private audience chamber. </p><p></p><p>You dig a massive canal parallel to but a few miles away from a major river, which when completed, hardly anyone ever uses because all the cities are on the river.</p><p></p><p>You commission a magically created oasis in the middle of a major desert in order to foster trade and encourage development. This angers an Efreeti Pasha and sparks a minor magical war (which you win at great cost). But afterwards only a few travellers ever come, because there is nothing else for 500 miles and no resources to be gained from the trip but the water and food you need to get back. Undaunted, you study plans for repeating the project a half-dozen more times.</p><p></p><p>You build the largest sailing vessel in the world, a seven masted vessel that is 700' long, 160' wide and contains 10 separate water tight chambers to prevent sinking, and a palace with its own pools, fountains, and gardens. It sails around a lake 10 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest. It often has to be rotated by rowers because it cannot switch tacks in the lack without danger of running aground. It's just as well though, because it wouldn't be seaworthy in any larger body of water.</p><p></p><p>You build a to scale 200'x200' version of your capital to give to a favored neice as a 'doll city', complete with 10's of thousands of inch high inhabitants. The whole thing is designed to be dissembled and reassembled on tables, and it takes 1300 ox carts and a dedicated staff of thousands to move it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 5116344, member: 4937"] You carve a whole mountain into your image. To avoid taking a boat, you commission a bridge made of porceline and alabaster that is 15000 feet long and 500 feet high, and it goes from the mainland to an island home you only use for a few months of the year. You build a floating city to be your capital. But most of it is uninhabited because the cost of transporting things up to it is prohibitive, and once the initial wonder wears off, its just a place you are trapped in. So the whole thing is basically just a palace that everyone carefully pretends is a city. You commission your magicians divert part of a river an upside down waterfall to supply an aqueduct that is unnecessarily tall and long just be impressive. You have your life story (the official version at least) carved in bas relief by master stone carvers on the famous walls of a fortified city, rendering them easily scaled. You begin a project involving stone statues of various sizes (up to 150' high) erected so that everyone anywhere in your empire will be able to turn in at least one direction and see your image. This project is estimated to require 44000000 statues. Only 43,860,000 to go. You create a vast 'garden' of fantastic permenent illusions, pyrotechnics, and colored everburning lantern. Using large numbers of teleportation portals, you link several of your palaces in vastly removed portions of the continent in such a way that from the interior they seem to be a single connected structure. You collect the largest collection of uselessly and frivously animated objects and constructs in the world, and fill a vast whimsical palace with your toys. You convert a 100 square mile area about a particularly important holy site into a vast walled garden and temple complex, hoping to please some diety (for extra madness, its the goddess of chastity that the emporer by way of the gift hopes to seduce). You commision a 60' diameter scale model of the world, which is to be complete and to scale in every detail. It's covered with 1/4" high mountains made of jade and mother of pearl, and 1/4" deep ocean basins lined with lapis lazuli and containing thin sheets of water held in place by tiny fields of force. Tiny 1/4" high cloud systems slowly drift over the surface, and teeny cities light up as it passes into shadows. Hangs in the air slowly turning in your football stadium sized study/private audience chamber. You dig a massive canal parallel to but a few miles away from a major river, which when completed, hardly anyone ever uses because all the cities are on the river. You commission a magically created oasis in the middle of a major desert in order to foster trade and encourage development. This angers an Efreeti Pasha and sparks a minor magical war (which you win at great cost). But afterwards only a few travellers ever come, because there is nothing else for 500 miles and no resources to be gained from the trip but the water and food you need to get back. Undaunted, you study plans for repeating the project a half-dozen more times. You build the largest sailing vessel in the world, a seven masted vessel that is 700' long, 160' wide and contains 10 separate water tight chambers to prevent sinking, and a palace with its own pools, fountains, and gardens. It sails around a lake 10 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest. It often has to be rotated by rowers because it cannot switch tacks in the lack without danger of running aground. It's just as well though, because it wouldn't be seaworthy in any larger body of water. You build a to scale 200'x200' version of your capital to give to a favored neice as a 'doll city', complete with 10's of thousands of inch high inhabitants. The whole thing is designed to be dissembled and reassembled on tables, and it takes 1300 ox carts and a dedicated staff of thousands to move it. [/QUOTE]
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