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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6969915" data-attributes="member: 20323">Thanks [MENTION=4937]Celebrim[/MENTION] <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I forgot about those! D&D is always more "interesting" with typos. Hah.Well, in AD&D it was mentioned that (emphasis mine): "Many jann tribes are nomadic, traveling with flocks of camels, goats, or sheep from oasis to oasis. These itinerant jann appear human in every respect, and are often mistaken for them, unless they are attacked." So it's not ALL jann who are nomads. Moreover, Secrets of the Lamp mentions the ruined city of Ubar as once being inhabited by desert giants and jann. So it's not totally out of character with existing lore.Besides being a fun adventure site, the city has a couple reasons for being:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Protect an Artifact: It was supposedly where an artifact was given from the first sha'ir to the jann for safekeeping. More in the spoiler in my first post. Wizards and genies often visit seeking out this artifact, so the need for continued protection of it (even if it has been so long it's more a legend and no one knows exactly where it is).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Shelter for Inner Planes Jann: It serves as a gathering place & sanctuary for jann, who are often servitors of power powerful genies on the Inner Planes. Escaped slavery to the dao? Or fled impressed servited in the efreet's armies? The city welcomes these jann (and genasi too).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Gathering for Material Plane Jann: Family is of utmost importance to the jann, and nomads need occasions to gather disparate tribes together to resolve disputes, discuss matters that impact all tribes, gain news from family on the planes, and so forth. The plane-roving city provides that. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sacred Site: It is where jann learned how to (or gained the innate ability to) enter the Ethereal Plane. Sort of like your sacred site idea. Some jann philosophers/alchemists believe that as beings composed of all elements they have the capacity to awaken parts of themselves and transcend to more powerful states, perhaps gaining their place as equals among genies one day; these philosophers/alchemists believe that the Ethereal echo of the city hides spiritually transformative secrets.</li> </ol>I can really see that! A whole section of the city carved into canyon walls. I like the idea of layers of history there, built over millennia by jann tribes coming and going from the city.</blockquote>

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