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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6972944" data-attributes="member: 4937">I think that overall, the Jann are going to most relate to things that they see as being fusions of multiple elements, and will specifically call out and celebrate those things.  Para-elementals - Smoke, Ice, Lava, MudElements in Composite or Transient States - Mists, Steams, Hot Water, Dusts, Glasses, Salts, Bricks/Pottery/GlazesLiving Creatures Generally, but especially ones that undergo metamorphosis or live on the boundary of two worlds - Mangroves, Cypresses, Frogs, Bats, Butterflies, Mudskippers, Diving Birds, Shore Birds, CrabsI imagine a hot spring or thermal area that has been channeled into a garden of steams and tropical plants, with fountains of boiling water.   I imagine palace interiors made out of pink hued polished rock salt and cypress wood.  I imagine fire glazed porcelain - the product of water, fire, and earth and so cannot exist on the elemental planes - decorated fancifully and highly prized.  I imagine buildings made of multicolored bricks, and covered with mosaics of multicolored tiles.  I imagine towers of obsidian glass, and carefully tilled rock gardens where pillows and waves of stone formed where lava cooled meeting the sea are treated as priceless works of natural art.  I imagine halls decorated with towering windows of stained glass.  Potted plants and aquariums and terrariums are very common.  Exotic water lilies and brightly colored frogs are purchased with jewels from the best breeders.  Amidst this consensus style, partisans display their loyalty to their preferred elemental ancestors with ever burning fires, solidly built houses of granite, chert or flint, ice sculptures kept magically cool in the desert heat, ponds of lava where tame fire creatures can frolic, and such like.  Gulls are held sacred in the city by long tradition, and flying in flocks above its plazas.  Stylized Herons, Cranes, Salamanders, Land Crabs, and Bats are painted or carved onto seemingly ever surface, and one temple - now half abandoned - releases great clouds of bats to fly over the city at nightfall.  In one corner of the city is an eternal rainstorm, the work of a house allied with the Marids, headed by a grizzled, one eyed, jann knight whose lack of tact is as legendary as his role in overthrowing their former Effretti taskmasters.  When the old man is feeling especially grumpy, flashes of lightning and peals of thunder ring out over the city.  The water from this rainstorm, forms a legendary hanging garden which runs down through one portion of the city till it meets its counter part, a stream of hot water arising from a more literally fiery quarter.  Round about where these two streams meet is the great marketplace of the city, and round about that is the tangled souk with its tall polymorphic buildings that change shape on every midnight and wander about, it narrow near lightless alleys, and infinite odors and perfumes.  Legend has it that if one is not careful in the souk, the buildings will wander behind you so that you'll be left on streets that have no exit, and wander eternally through streets where demons ply their wares, and ghouls barter for rotten meat.</blockquote>

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