![]() ![]() The Planar Handbook set the population at 500,000 free beings and 1,000,000 slaves. Secrets of the Lamp set the population of the City of Brass at over 4,000,000, about 800,000 of them slaves. The rulers and most common race in the City of Brass are the efreet, though other races - including humanoid ones like humans, elves, and so forth - are allowed to dwell within the city's walls as well. ![]() The city itself is enormous in its own right, featuring towers, domes, and tall spires rising above the brass city walls. These plants are a thorny weed, a soporific, and a poison, respectively. The Slope is the home of several wild plants, such as ziwan, crimson rye, and sweet shiverrod.The black, leafless trees of the forest, called serpent trees, feed on the heat of the plane rather than on light as do Oerthly plants. The Sable Forest is a wild woods kept as a hunting preserve for efreeti nobles.The bodies of criminals and deserters are used as scarecrows. Also grown are food for the efreeti and other elemental races: qamh, a type of soft, spongy grass habbat, a wild grain verdobba, a nutty, dark purple tuber tergamit, a fruit and umbellin, a spicy brown bean. The Obsidian Fields are agricultural fields where fireweed is cultivated as fodder for the nightmare steeds used by the efreeti cavalry.The Slag is a dump where tailings from the mines are piled.The Pits are the mines, where slave races dig out copper, tin, and diamonds.The city itself takes up only a small portion of the flat side of the hemisphere, the rest being used for agriculture, mining, hunting, and military exercises. At the Grand Sultan's command, the hemisphere can sink into a sea of flame so that the ports can be used. The City of Brass is built upon a forty-mile diameter glowing brass hemisphere that floats (curved side down) above rivers of magma and the fiery lakes and seas of the plane. Fragments of his body are buried in the Tomb of Tzunk's Hands, a few hexes away from a portal to the City of Brass in the Burning Cliffs region. Most relevant to the world of Oerth is the cautionary story of Tzunk, who once tried to conquer it using the Codex of the Infinite Planes. In the Age before Ages it was part of the vast empire of the Wind Dukes of Aaqa. The history of the City is long and storied. ![]()
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