Vai' Khiyaji

A city devoted to grandeur, spectacle, and pleasures. It's a sin city with loose laws and several hubs for gambling, entertainment, exotic markets, and more shady business deals.

Vai’Khiyaji is a decadent crescent-shaped city of indulgence and spectacle, built within sight of the Golden City as its hedonistic shadow. Known as the "The Mirage," this city exists to cater to every desire, no matter how extravagant or illicit, offering an endless array of pleasures to those wealthy or daring enough to partake. The city’s crescent shape hugs the natural contours of a shallow valley, its glittering skyline visible from the distant Golden City. Elaborate buildings adorned with gold leaf, gemstones, and enchanted lights dominate the landscape, creating a mesmerizing glow that illuminates the desert night. The streets are a labyrinth of opulence, with grand avenues leading to plazas where fountains flow with perfumed water and street performers entertain under gilded arches. Every corner of Vai’Khiyaji is designed to dazzle and entice, from luxurious bathhouses and palatial gambling halls to intimate lounges and towering amphitheaters. Its centerpiece is the Moon Pavilion, a sprawling complex of gardens, theaters, and palaces that hosts the city’s most exclusive events and spectacles.

Vai’Khiyaji is Azmith’s playground for the rich and curious. It offers a dizzying array of experiences. Opulent gambling houses where fortunes are won and lost nightly, offering games of chance and skill that attract gamblers from across the realm. Theaters and arenas host performances ranging from poetic recitals to gladiatorial combat, blending high art with visceral spectacle. Lavish feasts, exotic wines, and rare delicacies are staples, alongside more illicit offerings such as enchanted narcotics and shadowy markets. The city thrives on spectacle, with grand parades, pyrotechnic displays, and festivals that rival even the grandest celebrations in the Golden City. Vai’Khiyaji’s reputation as a place where anything is possible ensures a steady stream of visitors eager to lose themselves in its delights.

Vai’Khiyaji operates under the loose governance of Safiyya al-Parsa and her Council of Patrons, a group of influential individuals—often merchants, entertainers, and underworld figures—who profit from the city’s success. Unlike the rigid oligarchy of the Golden City, Vai’Khiyaji’s leadership thrives on fluidity and favors, with power shifting based on wealth and influence. The city’s economy is fueled by tourism, drawing both nobles seeking opulence and adventurers chasing forbidden thrills. Trade with the Golden City ensures a steady flow of luxury goods, while Vai’Khiyaji’s underground markets attract merchants dealing in rare and illegal wares.

Vai’Khiyaji is as infamous as it is celebrated. To some, it is a glittering paradise of freedom and indulgence, where social norms dissolve under the desert moonlight. To others, it is a den of vice and corruption, a place where morality is sold as cheaply as the goods in its bazaars. Its proximity to the Golden City emphasizes its duality. While the Golden City embodies structured wealth and power, Vai’Khiyaji offers unrestrained excess and escapism, drawing from the same fountain of affluence but expressing it in chaos rather than order.