While listening to this, I got caught up in the many worlds idea, and that the Nameless City (Apparently not named Makkathran), can show people visions of alternate realities that can give them guidance.
When she talked about how one of those alternate worlds might still hold the city's creators, I immediately jumped to the conclusion that of course it did, and the narrator's own world is one of the alternates that the city creators have avoided.
I got so caught up in this idea that I totally failed to care about the relatively insignificant concerns of these inhabitants of a shadow world.
Neat ideas, though.