Isles of Fire

The Isles of Fire is the home of Pyromancy and its Guardian, Solaris. It sits at the edge of the realm of fire, The Isles are a chain of large rocky islands floating atop an apparently endless ocean of lava. The entire World is brutally hot, in some places unbearably so, but the efforts of Pyromancers over generations have been able to make the main city, Sundias, and its immediate surroundings, habitable to people from other worlds.

## Sundias

The main city of Sundias sits in the center of the largest of the islands. The city is built in a round formation with exits at each cardinal direction. The city is fairly packed with houses and buildings, but for some reason seems open and bright all the time, perhaps due to its lack of any buildings taller then two stories and their love for roofless buildings. The streets are quite wide, offering enough room for even large creatures to walk around, although some of the areas near the eastern edge of the city are more closely packed, making movement through it difficult and in some places impossible for large creatures.

### City Regions

#### City Square

The center of the city features a large, open square with a giant mural built into the ground depicting the sun. Festivals are held commonly held here and there's always people hanging around enjoying the day. Around the edge of the square are small market stalls where hopeful merchants sell their wares to the many people roaming around the center of the city. Most of the city's shopping can be found here, although there are other specialty shops and businesses that have actual buildings just outside the square, like tanners, clothiers, and other services that require a larger premises. The largest building in Sundias, the Sun Temple, is located just south of the square, and is a place for those that worship Solaris and the sun gather. Just north of the city square is the Hot Coals Inn, a small, modest but comfortable inn that serves good hearty food and has soft, warm beds open for travelers.

#### Western Region

The western part of the city is where the wealthier citizens of the city live, including the Head of Sundias. However, unlike the over the top mansions seen in other worlds, the wealthy of Sundias live relatively modest lives. Even the meeting house, which is found in this area of the city, isn't anything more then they need - a simple longhouse with a large room for discussions. The houses here are larger and more spread out, but are built similar to the rest of the city - no higher then two stories and featuring simple, square stone architecture without roofs. The houses here are lavishly decorated, with red and gold patterns emblazoned on the doors and patterns carved into the walls, but otherwise they're no different from the rest of the city.

#### Southern/Northern Region

The southern and northern part of the city are both fairly identical. The middle class live in these areas, although the more religious crowd tend to gravitate towards the south, as its closer to the Temple, while most merchants make their home in the northern part. The houses here are fairly simple, with some decorations standing out, although this is more common around the time of festivals.

#### Eastern Region

The eastern part of the city is where the poor of Sundias live. Just as the rich of Sundias aren't extremely wealthy compared to other worlds, the poor don't live in depravity. However, this area of the city isn't the nicest or the cleanest. The buildings are packed tightly together and are generally not built as well as the rest of the city, or are older and falling into disrepair. Many of them look like they were once ruins that have been hastily bandaged and repurposed into living quarters. The better parts of this region belong to the farmers and mine-workers and are at the very edge of the city. Thankfully, there doesn't seem to be much homelessness, with very few people seen living on the streets. Oddly enough, this part of the city is, by far, the most decorated, although perhaps less beautifully so then others. The people do what they can with what they have - faded fabrics that were, perhaps, once red are thrown between buildings and outside of windows, crudely made talismans depicting the sun or Solaris hang from doorways, and hand-carved patterns and images are drawn into the walls.

## Lesser Islands

Outside of the island Sundias rests on, there are a variety of small islands, separated from each other by rivers of lava. Most of these are unremarkable, featuring a few passive creatures or the occasional ore deposit. Some are used to host the meager farms that Sundias can support in such a harsh environment while others are completely deserted or play host to a few people that live outside the city limits.

### Flamesilver Mines

One of the few lesser islands of note, the mines look onto like a large chunk of rock on the outside, but the tunnel leading into the ground opens to cave upon cave of shimmering Flamesilver. These caves are dangerously hot and have many streams of lava falling from the walls as well as multiple obsidian deposits, and it's advised that only miners with training and permission enter these caves.

## Greater Islands

The majority of the Isles of Fire are made up of large chunks of rock multiple miles across, featuring an array of interesting, surprisingly diverse, and sometimes magical environments. The areas of the greater islands are far hotter then Sundias and its surroundings, as the magic built up by generations of Pyromancers is far weaker out here and become extremely dangerous at the edge of the ocean of lava.

### Sun-Touched Cliffs

This is one of the larger islands on the Isles and is bordered by an unclimbable ring of mountains, only be accessible through caves, both natural and dug out long ago. Upon emerging, adventurers will find that the entire island is open to the sky, where the sun shines down directly overhead, all the time. Even if it were nighttime outside, upon entering and exiting the cave, the sun will be shining. Most of the island is made up of cliffs covered in brown and orange grass and is inhabited by a small population of devout sun worshippers. This island is the closest to the Tower of Solaris, which is located just off the island, over the ocean of lava.

### Blazing Woods

A smaller island, but one of the most fascinating, as it's covered in a dense forest where the trees hold leaves of fire. Magic is thick in the air and all manner of strange flora and fauna live here, although few are monstrous or threatening and most will run from explorers, although some will defend their homes if threatened. The trees here are strange - they don't seem to be made of wood and feel more like stone then anything else. They're hard to cut down with normal tools and only the hardest of tools, such as diamond and flamesilver, can make a dent in them, leading the people of Sundias to leave them out of their building.

### Inferno Plains

A dangerous, open expanse of bare rock sharp stone spires scattered across the surface and many pools of lava. There's few places to hide here and its incredible hot, being the farthest island away from Sundias and its magic. Many sorts of dangerous creatures and monsters wander the "plains", scaring away most people that have little to no means of defending themselves.

### The Great Lava Pit

The largest island in the chain and, ironically, there's very little surface area, besides a relatively thin ring of open rock around the edge of a massive pit of lava. It seems almost different from the lava of the ocean, however, as it seems to burn far hotter and is more fluid in consistency. This allows for all sorts of creatures to dwell in the lava, having somehow adapted to survive in the molten rock. The top of the island it elevated far above the rest of the islands as well, almost like an wide open-faced volcano.

## The Tower of Solaris

The island that Solaris lives upon is unlike any of the others, considering that its suspended in the air above the lava ocean, about half a mile away from the edge of the Sun-Touched Cliffs. There's a stone stairway leading towards the cliffs, but it's broken only a few feet away from the edge of the island, making travel to this island extremely difficult without the means of flight. The tower itself, however, is a marvel to see. A tall, pristine marble tower studded with jewels and gilded with silver, gold, and flamesilver. Upon the top of the tower, apparently, Solaris resides. Sometimes he is seen by worshippers on the cliffs flying around above his tower, but he never visits the Children below and no one that has attempted to climb the tower have ever returned.