Alcedina wasn't the capital city of the Dorrean Federation for nothing, its visage was like a moving painting. Seen from above, it looked like the intricate, colorful patterns of a Sirtosian carpet. It even had a rectangular shape and its city center looked like an open flower. Inside the lotus-like dome was the administrative and financial center: The Comitium and right next to it, the cultural and religious center: The Athenaeum. Museums, concert halls, and more importantly temples were located there.

The temples were segmented into the Worship temples and the Studying temples. The worship temples were named Hieron and handled rituals and ceremonies as well as esoteric training for the spiritually gifted. The studying temples were named Academia and were two types: The scientific ones and the military ones.

The more luxurious and older city center buildings were made of marble and jade and looked like flowery palaces that were harmonious in shape. They were in stark contrast to the newer buildings at the periphery which were more industrial looking, made of glass fiber, and had an asymmetric, chaotic design. While screens weren't allowed on the older buildings for religious reasons, the newer ones displayed various digitized commercials and even had an option of making three-dimensional holograms. They were considered in poor taste though. A deplorable simulacrum only for the lower masses to enjoy. It was seen as a way to replicate the practice of the temple sacerdotes, priests worshipping Yarl: the god of light and wisdom.

The city center had numerous exquisitely well-maintained parks with luscious vegetation that was so beautiful there was no need for botanical gardens. The seeds were brought from all corners of the planet showing an impressive variety in shapes and colors. It wasn't uncommon for strollers to stay a whole day just to admire a specific segment of the shrubbery.

But of course, the most beautiful of them all were The Suspended Gardens of the Dorrean Palace, majestic pieces of botanical and architectural engineering. The Dorrean gardens were themselves copied from the House of Galandor, the oldest and most respected of the Seven Houses.

The main highway was flanked by fountains in the shape of the Goddess Galatis, the patron of water and life.

Just outside the flower-like dome were the entertainment district as well as the market district, they resembled nothing of the orderly, immaculate city center. The two sectors were total opposites: the entertainment district was technologically advanced, no corner was without some type of innovation: opera music that produced visible colors, virtual reality game arcades that were neuro-linked to the players, robotic bartenders, plasma-fueled bike races, mech suit fighting tournaments and even holographic idol-based concerts.

The market district on the other hand was another kind of erratic: narrow street corners surrounded by colorful bazaars. The noblewoman only visited the market district in the capital once a year but every time it was in the form of an official tour. As the duchess of Winderver, the third biggest state in the Dorrean Federation, she was always accompanied by her envoy. Her advisors planned every part of the touring schedule. They also kept her from frequenting certain locales and from interacting with the lower classes, especially those that happened to be chimera as well. Only high-ranked chimeras with city center permits could interact with the duchess.