Ituan-Yul

Ituan-Yul is the capital and largest city of the serpentine empire. It is surrounded on all sides by thick jungle and swamps with few safe roads leading to it. It is a deeply holy city to the yuan-ti and they believe that the world was born from it's centre. The god-emperor of the yuan-ti rules from the central pyramid of the city, a massive structure veined with gold and silver and said to hold all the riches of the yuan ti in it's vast treasure vaults. Only the highest of yuan ti society are permitted to live in the same city as the god-emperor. They each occupy large manors and, in the case of the wealthiest, smaller pyramids. Their decadence is infamous even among the yuan ti themselves with tales of entire rooms made of solid gold. Servants are killed for the slightest inconvenience and sometimes simply for entertainment. Outsiders are rare in Ituan-Yul but they do exist. Most notably is those coming to study with the scholars of the yuan ti at the Iven-dar-Ocu, or Starry Pyramid.

The Starry Pyramid is where the yuan ti study the night sky with bizarre glass and metal instruments that allow them to observe many heavenly bodies. They jealously guard the secrets to the technology (even the gnomes have yet to come up with something comparable) but will sometimes allow foreign scholars to study alongside them. Euphemia Ensly of the Mirrored Library has been known to often make the long journey to Ituan-Yul from Maratrina to conduct research at the Starry Pyramid. She has written extensive studies about the stars and the moons based on her observations there as well bringing back extensive works on yuan ti culture, religion and history. She is rumoured to have even met the god-emperor himself. If this were true then it would make her one of the only non-yuan ti beings in the world to have actually seen him in the flesh.

Ituan-Yul is built on a gridlike city plan with four separate quarters and the central pyramid in the middle. Their is the residential quarter where the citizens live, the temple quarter with various shrines to minor gods (Although the largest shrine is in the central pyramid), the market quarter with various high end shops (As mentioned previously, only the rich live in Ituan-Yul) and the night quarter, which contains the Starry Pyramid and other places of magical and natural research.