City of Brass (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the City of Brass is the capital of the great efreeti empire on the Elemental Plane of Fire.

The City of Brass is first fully described in the original first edition Manual of the Planes (1987). It is described as "a huge citadel that is home to the majority of efreet" and is where their grand sultan lives.

The history of the City is long and storied. In the Age before Ages it was part of the vast empire of the Wind Dukes of Aaqa. 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. He failed, miserably. 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.

The City of Brass is built upon a 40-mile-diameter (64 km) glowing brass hemisphere that floats (curved side down) above rivers of magma and the fiery lakes and seas of the plane. At the Grand Sultan's command, the hemisphere can sink into a sea of flame so that the ports can be used. 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.

The city itself is enormous in its own right, featuring towers, domes, and tall spires rising above the brass city walls.

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.

Secrets of the Lamp set the population of the City of Brass at over 4,000,000, about 800,000 of them slaves. The Planar Handbook set the population at 500,000 free beings and 1,000,000 slaves.

The most popular deity among the common efreet, who are largely neutral in alignment, is Agni of the Vedic pantheon, the god who consumes all torches. Agni's faith is only tolerated by the nobles, who dislike Agni's message of redemption and immortality. Also extremely popular among the common efreet is the Norse goddess Freya, called Freyal by the efreet.

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