Close up, a young traveller arrives at the gates of a magnificent merchant city, looking up, her eyes wide in wonder at the fragile towers and minarets that soar vertiginously to dizzying heights above her on all sides, higher than anything she has seen, the crowded streets where countless merchants of all races in their outlandish costumes hawk their exotic wares, while above it all towers the impenetrable mass of the mighty fortress citadel, above which at night eerie aurora glow, which idle tongues ascribe to the majicks of efrit and djinn, mysterious, dreamlike, exotic, fantasy, phantasmagoric, 8k, ultra high resolution, masterful painting, volumetric lighting, hyper realistic, crystal clarity