Gauherabad

Gauherabad: Known as the City of Jewels, Gauherabad stands on a huge volcanic mountain rising from a boiling sea. Inhabitants soar under their own power, using mounts, or on skin kites from cliff-face districts to palaces that float on rising volcanic smoke.

Visitors enter from several stable vortexes to the Elemental Realities and other portals. These vortexes pour out such intense energy that it is difficult for much to live here outside the shelter of the fey oasis. In fact, Gauherabad is said to be built on a world born dead, whose raw elements refused to be tamed enough for life to take root. The land seethed and roiled, burned and drowned, and was blown away as dust before the sun quickly burned itself out.

After the world fell lifeless’ not even a planet is left in Terra near its darkened star – a Seelie Knight who witnessed the tragedy founded Gauherabad in Annwn amid elemental extremes little better than that which killed the world. She hoped encouraging communication between fey and elementals would prevent something similar from happening again, and at least the fey trade and dialogue with elemental beings here.

Consequently, the city serves as an unofficial meeting-place for the Gatekeepers of Essence. It is now ruled by a peri pasha hailing from the Reality of Mineral. Gauherabad’s population includes large numbers of magical beasts and jann as well as terrain and weather fey. Many fey courts use Gauherabad to find and hire elementals or others to do jobs for them in Terra and the Elemental Realities. Others trade fey craftwork and elemental raw materials.

In addition to the vortexes, Gauherabad has notable portals to cities in three of the four major Elemental Realities: the City of Brass in Fire, the Citadel of Ice and Steel in Air, and the Great Dismal Delve in Earth. There was once a portal to the Citadel of Ten Thousand Pearls in Water, but it was destroyed.