Metal:
City Name: City of Metal
Population: Approximately 175,000
Architectre: The city of metal is all futuristic sky scraper type buildings with the occasional dome. Almost everything here is made of metal. The streets are lined with street lamps that glow to light the way, and peoples homes are lit by electric lights.
Trades With: City of Shadow, City of Electricity
Magic: The people of The City of Metal have the ability to control metal in all of its forms, whether it is solid, or superheated liquid. They can make it go to either of these stages through their magic, skipping the long heating process that most people would have to go through. Years ago when they first came to where their city would be built, they found a great abundance of metal in the ground, and so settled there. They do not mine as much as they used to, as now when a building is no longer used, they rip out its interior and reuse the metal in the structure itself in order to make a new, better building.
Surrounding Area: the City of Metal is located in a dry, desert like section of the continent, and is surrounded by four naturally formed pillars of red desert stone. Divided into four sections, one on top of each pillar, is the City of Electricity, the Metal City’s closest trading partner. Needless to say, the two intermingle frequently, and rely on each other to continue their way of life.
Residents: The people of the Metal City are usually dark skinned from living out in the desert. Their hair is commonly white, or some form of pale blonde, no one is ever born with dark hair. Blue or silver are the typical color for their eyes, which are surrounded by very thick lashes. The mages differ somewhat from normal citizens. When they come into their powers, their arms become solid living metal from finger tip to shoulder. (they still work like normal arms, just…metal XD) Their backs also gain metallic protrusions, which when they gain more control of their power, can change the shape of. The same goes for their arms. When they reach the Novice level in their training, they are able to shape their metallic body parts into whatever they like. This metal can not be separated from their bodies though. Doing that would be the same as losing a finger or something to us. It cannot be replaced.
For clothes, futuristic, functional body suits are favored. Mages never wear gloves though, as that would get in the way if they were to try and change their limbs in a hurry.
Daily Life: People of The City of Metal carry out all of their business during the day, and sleep at night. In the mid-afternoon though, they retreat indoors to escape the intense heat of the desert sun, and don’t come out again until later in the afternoon when some of the heat has dissipated. Compared to all of the other cities, The City of Metal (as well as electricity) is extremely advanced. They have electric lights thanks to their metal wires and the Electric Mages magic, they have small, motorcycle like vehicles on which they ride, and grow their own food in hydroponics tanks with water they import from the City of Water. Their buildings are all tall and made of metal, nearly rivaling the City of Air in how brightly it shines in the sunlight. They are not, though, so advanced as we are. They don’t have computers or TV or anything like that. Also they rarely bring their ‘bikes’ out of the city unless an Electric Mage is accompanying them, otherwise it would eventually just run out of power and die.
