Fire Nests

The Fire Nests are plural: five citadels, each built into the sides of a basalt stack around the ruins of Anur-ket, the fallen capital of Anur-tek. Each nest is home to about 8,000 pyranoi, with may times that number in the jungles, canyons and caverns in between. Each stack is a volcanic chimney, capped by the citadel, where the city's garrison enjoy the heat of the main vent (also called the heat well). Labourer's quarters are built around the stack, usually where a side not conducts heat which can be used by residents of these hanging districts.
Below ground, a large chamber is carved: This is the foundry, a workshop and residence for the city's artisans. Further down - much further down - lie the magma chambers and the sacred precinct, where the Masters have their chambers.
The Masters are the rulers of the nest, and elect one of their number as Master Governant, and a second as Master speaker. The Master Governant is the head of the Masters' Council, and as such the nest's head of government and state. The Master Speaker represents the nest on the Speakers' Council which coordinates between the nests and elects the High Master from among all the Masters of the Fire Nests. The five nests are called Salamastra, Daratus, Remoris, Fenex and Pyris. The last of these is the tallest, broadest and richest, and home to at least half of those elected High Master in the last century.

Type

Geopolitical, Kingdom