Perhaps! I think, maybe, it would be bigger if it had been built with the expectation that travelers from distant lands would arrive here, as port towns and those settlements along trade routes tend to be. But it seems we've simply been dropped here by the whims of the Fates, rather than by any mortal design. And with the whole world before us to explore, I don't see many choosing to settle here permanently and cause it to grow that way.

It is very fitting, though. Poetic, like you said. I can't help but wonder if that aspect, at least, was deliberate on someone's part.