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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6975675" data-attributes="member: 4937">I've got questions about how you envision the whole planeshifting city thing working.According to the text, the city just got back from the elemental plane of fire.  This seems like a hugely important fact.  How can a city of hanging gardens and magical fig trees, with silk banners shading the streets, manage on the plane of fire with its essential features unchanged?  Wouldn't everything but the stone burn slam up?  Every tree and blade of grass would whither to ash.  Every stream, spring, pool and fountain would dry up.  Glass would run like water, and paint would leap into flame.   All those talking animals and tamed beasts would have long ago been BBQ.  Was Qaybar an entirely different city in form when on the Elemental Plane of Fire?  Or does Qaybar bring with it some sort of bubble that mitigates the whole "We're not in Al Kansas anymore." thing.On a related note, I kinda had in my view of history...Long, Long Ago: The Jann are subjugated by the EfreetSome time After: The Jann revolt, many Jann become wanderersSome time After: Qaybar is formed, as refuge for the Jann and center of their power.Since Then: Qaybar has been planeshifting around, occasionally returning to the plane of fire and sometimes resisting sieges But your time line seems to imply...A Short Time Ago: Qaybar was dominated by the EfreetA Short Time After That: It planeshifts away, and now the Jann are temporarily free, but...A Century Hence: They'll probably be dominated by the Efreet againThis latter conception, if it and not my earlier conception is correct, changes almost everything.  Please clarify how this works.</blockquote>

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