City of Brass

Within the Elemental Chaos, the capital city of the efreets, the City of Brass was the marketplace of the universe, where virtually anything could be bought or sold.

Population
Approximately 500,000. Efreets formed the upper class of the city, with only a handful of disgraced members standing outside the noble caste. Other residents included salamanders, archons, azers, genasi, fire giants and titans, demons, and other intelligent elemental creatures, as well as a smaller number of visitors and immigrants from the natural world. Roughly two-thirds of the city’s residents were slaves.

Government
The Lord of the Efreets, ruled the city from his Charcoal Palace, the most notable being Bashamgurda, who ruled for many centuries.

Defense
An entire caste of slaves were born and raised as soldiers to defend the City of Brass against incursion from the wider Elemental Chaos and the Abyss. These included archons, azers, and salamanders. A corps of fanatical efreet warriors called the Unquenchable patrolled the Charcoal Palace. The city guard, housed in the Ashlarks district, consisted primarily of archon and salamander soldiers.

Inns and Taverns
The best place for visitors to find food or lodging was the district of Iskalat, near the city’s harbor. The inns and taverns ringing the harbor catered to travelers from across the Elemental Chaos and other planes beyond. Knowledgeable guests were careful to keep a close eye on their valuables and be wary of con artists, but little risk of death or enslavement existed.

Supplies
Commoner’s Market; Street of Steel in the Keffinspires; Marlgate Warehouses; Pyraculum Bazaar. Anything could be bought in the City of Brass. The Commoner’s Market in the district of Avencina was an ideal place to secure both ordinary and exotic goods of a nonmagical nature. The Keffinspires district was home to most of the city’s smiths, who made and sold magical and mundane items, including weapons and armor. The warehouses of the Marlgate district held goods brought from across the planes for trade in the city, and the bazaar of Pyraculum offered the greatest diversity of high-quality goods.

Temples
The City of Brass was hostile to worshipers of the deities, and held no public temples to any gods. The primordial known as the Fire Lord, Imix, had an opulent temple in the Furnace called the Eternal Flame Pavilion. Residents of the city were strongly encouraged to offer praise and gratitude to the lord of the Charcoal Palace in large shrines located in each district.

Teleportation Circle
One teleportation circle was carved in a huge brass plate just outside the Diamond Gate, right alongside the major thoroughfare leading into the Keffinspires district of the city. The sigil sequence for this portal was widely known, making it the most common means of reaching the City of Brass. A large contingent of archon guards stood to repel any incursion from this access point