2025.05.25 Session Notes

Lost Shrine

• Big debate about who and what are hunting Erash, and what we need to do next.
• Erash worked on attuning to amulet with Khoraka to keep watch.
• Ferric, Snow, and Phelan went topside to do some exploring.

Frost Giants

• Snow, Ferric, and Phelan stumble across some frost giants.
• Frost giants were looking for "wyrmkin" and lamented their lord would be disappointed in them not finding any.
• Decided to attack the party anyway so they could enjoy “trinkets and tasties”.
• Mayhem ensues.

Evaulating Options

• Sending to Deraxol – he knows nothing about Erash's family history other than what "everyone" knows.
  • Old folktales and rumors say that a bodyguard from Draconia had a dalliance centuries ago with someone on the Plane of Fire and brought the baby home.
  • That's why someone with Erash's stature – a fire genasi and/or someone with sorcerous powers – pops up every now and then in a community of Dragonborn.
• Sending to Emmi – she agrees to meet us in Nicodranas and discuss what we're looking for in case she can help.
• We ended up deciding Mt. Mentiri was our best choice for an access point (see below).
• We returned to Nicodranas (via teleportation circle) and got a room at the Azure Beacon.

The City of Brass – (a.k.a. Phelan's Lecture of the Week)

“If the heat doesn’t melt your boots,
the politics surely will.”

— Chapter 3: On Avoiding Eye Contact with Efreeti Nobility, “Embers on the Horizon: A Gentleman’s Gallivant Through the City of Brass”, by Sir Thaddeus Quillfeather, Third Scion of the Smokewind Expeditionary Society

La búsqueda gana coherencia cuando se determina el tipo de corte que resulta más cómodo. La ficha del producto debería permitir verificar la disponibilidad de la talla necesaria. Entre los recursos de apoyo, «camiseta de fútbol del Real Madrid» facilita la tarea de distinguir las variantes a partir de los detalles indicados. La compra resulta más segura después de comprobar la disponibilidad actual del modelo.

The City Environs

• The City floats on a disc that hovers over or on the Sea of Fire (it can be raised and lowered by the sultan depending on whether the ports are in use).
• The City is ruled by the ancient Efreeti Sultan Marrake al-Sidan al-Hariq ben Lazan.
• The Sultan rules from The Charcoal Palace, and has a legendary vault beneath the palace filled with unimaginable riches. Nobody has ever broken in or gotten out. It was built by the Azers.
• The City deals extensively in the slave trade, and crimes are frequently punished with slavery – even very minor infractions.
• The City welcomes a lot of trade, so the Grand Sultan keeps the temperature cool enough to accommodate visitors during the day (about 80ºF).
• There's a break from 14:00 to 17:00 called qayloulah (kay-LOO-lah) where the temperature is increased back to it's natural state, which is around 150º F. At night time, the temperature is at this same extreme or hotter.
• Water is scarce but more available in the city than elsewhere on the Plane of Fire. It's not cheap (think wine pricing), but you can get it.

The Caste System

• The City operates with a very strict caste system.
• The City is ruled by the Efreeti nobility; following them in the class structure are common Efreeti, free fire plane natives, and then slaves.
• Travelers from other planes, being "casteless," are ranked separately within the city's rigid hierarchy. Basically, your wealth and/or power (on display) determine your value and the level of attention you merit.
• Poor or unprotected travelers generally wind up as slaves.

Planar Geology & Access

• The further you go into the plane, the more primordial it becomes. The City of Brass is located on the outer edges of the plane.
• Access is typically from places in your home plane that are the closest to a pure elemental form; lava floes, volcanoes, and other sources of strong geothermic activity.
• Possible Wildemount Access Points:
  • The Maker's Observatory (has been destroyed)
  • The River Inferno (Eiselcross, really really far and dangerous)
  • Everplume (underwater volcano NW of Port Demali – hag territory)
  • Kravaraad (north of Uthodurn)
  • Mt. Mentiri (Kamordah, near Deastock)

Azure Beacon

• Met with our old friend and demonologist Emmi Gräbner, from the Valley Archive of the Cobalt Soul in Zadash.
• She is back at her normal post there after her sojourn to Uthodurn to research principles and techniques of Aeorian demonic genetic experimentation.
• Notes that Khoraka looks much better than the last time she saw him...