In the Great Banquet Hall of the High Citadel, where former emperors had held exclusive, lavish feasts for titled patricians while common citizens queued for water in the plazas, a profound transformation was underway. The long banquet tables of polished cedar were set not for aristocratic lords, but for the orphan apprentices, elderly widows, street sweepers, and wounded veterans of the capital. The great hearths at either end of the…
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