Where an entire city learned to make pictures move
There are places in Tamosa that have become so closely associated with a particular activity that their names have long since escaped the boundaries of the map. Veraluz means theatres, music halls and the grand spectacle of the stage; Lunamarive means music, records and the sounds that have travelled from Tamosa to the rest of the world; Havenai means ships, aircraft, cargo and the immense machinery of movement that makes Tamosa one of the great crossroads of the Atlantic. And then there is Sunverive. To say that something comes from Sunverive is, in Tamosa, often enough to say that it comes from the city's film industry. The name has become a metonym for cinema itself — for studios, producers, actors, directors, cinematographers, laboratories, premieres and all the peculiar machinery that turns light, shadow and a succession of still images into stories that appear to move before our eyes. This is rather fitting, because Sunverive was fascinated by moving images long before t...