City of Brass Info

The oldest city in all creation, the City of Brass is a nexus for planar travelers. Those willing to look long and hard enough can find anything they have ever imagined somewhere in its labyrinthine avenues.

With numerous grand bazaars and ornate shops, the City of Brass is the mercantile center of the universe. Built on a vast basalt plate called Plane of the Molten Skies in an immense volcanic field on the edge of a fiery sea, the City of Brass is a still point in the churning tempest of the plane, and a relatively hospitable destination for mortal travelers.

It is the home of the fiery efreets, and the temperature is invariably hot—comparable to a sweltering summer day in most places; more like the inside of a smelting forge or the slopes of an active volcano in others.

More than 500.000 creatures call the City of Brass home, paying homage and taxes to Sultan Bashamgurda, the Lord of Efreets, who rules his city from his Charcoal Palace.

While the city, the city walls and the 7 forts protecting the 7 gates to the city are run by a caste of demon, salamander and archon slaves, all raised to protect, the Charcoal Palace is guarded by the Unquenchables, a small army of Thunder Efreets only loyal to the Lord of Efreets. Each more powerful than most mortals, the Unquenchables are indeed something to fear.

Created at the dawn of time by Sulymon, architect of the gods, to house all the spirits servants of the primordials, in the end, only those of earth, fire, water and air chose to make it their home. It was a free city where all races lived in peace. Sadly nothing lasts forever, and a even though immortal, there has been several Sultans during the eons since the creation of the City of Brass. Purges of certain races by various sultans have greatly diminished what races can set foot in the City of Brass. Genies of Water and Earth are all but gone, and so are most of those races that are considered good.

Instead the City is filled of salamanders, archons, azers, genasi, fire giants and titans, demons and other elemental creatures. Most other races are only visitors, and due not stay for long.

Conditions have become even worse since the Usurper took over, around 2000 years ago. He is a merciless despot. It is a city where evil walks freely, demons guard the gates, and where efreets rule. It is however also a city of law, although a law that is heavily biased against non-efreets.

There are no prisons in the City of Brass. Any infraction is punishable by either of two sentences, carried out immediately by an efreet magistrate. Death or Slavery. An insult can be as little as 7 days of slavery, while other transgressions can cause you to be bound in slavery for up to an eternity (1001 years). After you have done your time, you are once again a free man.