As the sultry days of August reached their culmination the capital eased into a drunken stupor. The feasts and festivals of the preceding months began to exhaust the population of their customary revelry. Parades of strange beasts with their beady eyes, eunuchs with pinched faces, priests swaying to baritone chants, the gold and silk of the imperial city in full display; such are the images of an empire confident in its strength. Like a young athlete striding across the field or the chariot teams of the hippodrome rippling across the sands, so too did the Emperor appear arrayed in purple & pearls. In the marbled & mosaicked halls of the rich and the cramped inns of the commoner, the population debauched well into the night. Men drank without concern for morning, prostitutes plied their wares in sheer dresses. Indolence ruled the city.
Aberration
Aberration
Aberration
As the sultry days of August reached their culmination the capital eased into a drunken stupor. The feasts and festivals of the preceding months began to exhaust the population of their customary revelry. Parades of strange beasts with their beady eyes, eunuchs with pinched faces, priests swaying to baritone chants, the gold and silk of the imperial city in full display; such are the images of an empire confident in its strength. Like a young athlete striding across the field or the chariot teams of the hippodrome rippling across the sands, so too did the Emperor appear arrayed in purple & pearls. In the marbled & mosaicked halls of the rich and the cramped inns of the commoner, the population debauched well into the night. Men drank without concern for morning, prostitutes plied their wares in sheer dresses. Indolence ruled the city.