The Floating City

Character

This is the "religious" centre for the githzerai race. They don't have priests, but instead revere their fighter/wizard god-king, and under his careful eye study the magical arts. Thievery is also revered in this city, apparently because it teaches skills useful for acquiring information outside githzerai settlements, and for infiltrating githyanki strongholds. Consequently, the githzerai "god-king" has integrated a respect for thievery into the peoples worship of him.

Ruler

Zaerith Menyar-Ag-Gith, the Great Githzerai. Again, while this immortal fighter/wizard rules as god-king over the githzerai everywhere, he holds the Floating City as his seat of religious power over the race. By seperating the githzerai's masters of magic from their masters of war in this way, he solidifies his hold on the people overall.

Behind the Throne

Zaerith prevents mages who rule this city from progressing beyond the 9th Wizard level. On those extremely rare occasions when he requires a servitor of more ability, he personally hand-picked and trained an individual, only to destroy the person once the need for those services was ended.
Currently, Zaerith's most trusted servitor is a woman named Moraan Devorax. Devorax has so far proved able to bend the self-styled god-king's ear without being viewed as a threat to his power. In part, this is because she presents herself as a person with absolutely no talent for spells. That's merely an act, however, as she's quite able to use magical scrolls when pressed. But she avoids doing so, preferring to appear magically inept to keep her current position, and her life.

Description

The Floating City is a place if tall spires connected by bare stone walkways, the whole covered by a sorcerous glow. Its streets are dim, narrow, and winding, and the people pass through them in silece. Foreigners are allowed access to all the city except the central Tower of Luminescence, whcih houses the "god-king" and his aides. 'Course, by entering the city, those foreigners present themselves as practice targets for every thief dwelling there. Consequently, they are dogged by dark, silent figures everywhere they go, and as likely as not end up leaving the city lacking the posessions they entered it with.

Militia

Order in the Floating City is maintained by an organization known as Thieves' Justice, headed by Beezil Foralin. this group serves double duty as a city guads and a training school for thieves. Rather than patrol the streets visibly, as guardmen in normal cities do, thes ethieves maintain order by stalking the streets and fining troublemakers secretly (picking their pockets).

Services

Besides having the general assortment of goods to be expected in any town, the Floating City is also a source of magical goods and thief's training. But the locals are leery of providing powerful magic or high level training to outsiders, lest these things be turned back on them. On the other hand, they welcome tutors from other races (provided their magical skills don't rival those of the god-king, who would take a dim view of such foreigners).
The Floating City is also the seat of the Anarch's Guild (though members are found throughout Limbo). Those who've earned their trust of the githzerai can get the highest level of anarch training here.

Local News

Recent rumor's that the high council of mages is deeply involved in a secret project for the Great Githzerai. There is some sppeculation that it involves a special summoning ritual that will be able to yank individual githyanki right out of the Astral Plane and into the Floating City itself, where the citizenry can punish them for their evil. While the mages have been occupied, a mysterious masked figure has joined the inner circle of the Thieve's Justice. Some say he is the offspring of a union between human and illithid, and so has a passionate hatred for the mind flayers.

Location under

Limbo

Owner/Ruler

Zaerith Menyar-Ag-Gith

Additional Rulers/Owners

• Moraan Devorax