Crosbhothana

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The nexus world between worlds and planes. Also known as the Infinite City, The Nexus Plane, and various other colloquial names.The plane itself is littered with countless portals to other worlds and planes all maintained and regulated by The Gatekeepers

## Locale

Crosbhothana is organized unnofficially into neighborhoods wards and officially into Districts. Each District is often much like a city unto itself, often with unique cultures blending in unusual or unexpected ways. The majority of the story so far has taken place in District 17: the one around which most of The Party's portals are located.

Within District 17 is a large slum, dappled with small ethnocentric neighborhoods, such as New Orc.

In the near center of District 17 resides the center for Ajatosh diplomacy and the home of the portal to Ajpatra: The Eldertree. The Eldertree, having established a strong natural presence in District 17 has also attracted a number of other naturally inclined races and professions. This has given rise to a few bazaars and farmer's markets around it that border the slums. Namely the Bizarre Bazaar and the farmer's market surrounding the portal to The Swordcoast are found here.

It's unclear which came first, as both have persisted beyond common memory, but beside the Eldertree, The Troll Market has also made its home in District 17, straddling the border with District 18.

## Government and Organizations

The Government of Crosbhothana is left primarily to its inhabitants, thereby countless governments have cropped up where large populations are gathered, and though war is forbidden, the boundries of governed territories are no small subject of contention.

The majority of District 17 is loosely governed by The White Network, though the independently run centers of law and commerce in the area rarely acknowledge this. The Netwrok's influence generally stops, however, at the border of the Troll Market's ward.

The other form of government abundantly common in Crosbhothana, and readily evident in District 17 are guilds. Various guilds have formed to lobby the interests of the innumerable masses of Crosbhothana, and often guilds have as much say in District regulation as do the local governing bodies. The Harpers, The Guild of the Dispossessed, and many other organizations have headquarters in District 17.

Beyond local rule, there are a few rules imposed upon the inhabitants of Crosbhothana by the Gatekeepers themselves, lest their world's access be revoked. The rules are known as **The Gatekeepers' Ordinances** and are decreed are as follows:

1. No worlds may use Crosbhothana as a means through which to wage war.
2. None shall engage in the destruction of another world.
3. None may pursue the genocidal elimination of any species from Crosbhothana, lest granted special permissions in the event of threatened ecosystemic collapse.
4. Planar magic and travel is to be restricted to the officially sanctioned and stabilized portals maintained by the Gatekeepers. Temporary planar summons, pocket dimension use, and demi-planes are granted exception. All other planar magics must be sanctioned by a Gatekeeper.
5. Planes deemed evxcessively volatile or dangerous will be subject to regulation and limitation of access.

## Portals

The most notable feature of Crosbhothana are the portals the litter and shape its landscape. They determine the inhabitants that live there, and their ecosystems often leak into it, forming unique and diverse environments in which several alien species and worlds mingle.

All of Crosbhothana's portals are managed and maintained by the mysterious Gatekeepers.

The worlds with portals known to the party are as follows:

* The Swordcoast
* Tenebraqua
* Ouruk (Old Orc)
* Lumina Veznika
* Artemora
* Gravdeus
* The Inbetween
* The Kenku Homeworld
* The Sepia Homeworld

## Other Notable Places

The party has visited a number of interested places within Crosbhothana already. They are listed here:
* The Arcane Library
* The Eye of the Beholder
* Mik'kraw's Kranny
* Honeyhart Aides and Addlers
* Forged in War
* The Bizarre Bazaar
* District 17 Prison