Once known as the second greatest city of the Earth Kingdom, Omashu has now fallen under the iron talons of the Great Phoenix King. Dubbed "New Ozai", it has now become the reflected red and gold glory of the mighty fire bird and its Emperor. New Ozai is located in the Kolau Mountain Range in the southwestern part of the Phoenix Empire's vast territory. The city is built on a number of hills, and is surrounded by a wide gorge. Heavily fortified, New Ozai is now littered with blazing red pagodas and the crimson insignia of the Fire Nation.

Sozin's Island is a small island located off the southern coast of the Phoenix Empire, serving as a flourishing trade port as well as homestead for the military of the Phoenix King. In times long past it was once famous for its courageous Kyoshi Warriors....not a trace of them are left. The statue of Avatar Kyoshi has been shamed, burned and far removed, replaced by a flaming statue of the Emperor Ozai in her stead.

Gaoling is a vast town situated within the treacherous mountain ranges of the Southern Phoenix Empire. It is nestled deep within a valley of steep rolling hills, and has strangely maintained its nationalism. Oddly enough, the city has been allowed to keep its designated name and hosts a variety of people from the impoverished to the rich and lavish, catering to Fire Nation nobility. This legendary city was known for being the birthplace of the Greatest Earthbender in the world, one whom has vanished since the Fall of Aang.

Formerly the impenetrable city and proud capitol of the Earth Kingdom, Ba Sing Se, Huo Jian Yu, known as the "Prison of Fire" is little more than a vast shanty town, a prison colony surrounded by the walls which once protected the city which stood there. Now encased in steel, the walls are guarded by massive iron fortresses. The prisoners are forced to work mines underneath the prison and any who resist... are burned. Men, women, and children all...

The capitol of the Fire Nation and the most authoritative city in the Phoenix Empire aside from the Phoenix King's capitol of New Ozai. Home to Fire Lord Azula and one of the most bustling cities in the world. The Fire Nation capitol is to the world the single greatest bastion of evil, even though the majority of the government is located half way across the world.

One of the largest and wealthiest cities in the Fire Nation, the town is dominated by a statue of Phoenix King Ozai designed to spew fire. The city is famous for its spicy pastries, less-than-legal pass-times, and corrupt officials, not to mention its seemingly endless supply of wealthy social climbers who fall just short of the mark of Caldera City or New Ozai.

Home to some of the most skilled metal-workers in the Fire Nation or indeed the world, Shu Jing is a relatively sleepy little city that enjoys a beautiful bit of countryside. The manor which looks down on the town is said to be haunted and was once occupied by Master Piandao. No one knows what happened to him, but the manor has gone without a master for many years...

Situated in the southern reaches of the Fire Isles, the Crescent Island was once the location of Avatar Roku's fire temple. After it was destroyed, the island was reclaimed by Fire Lord Azula and made a strategic base for the Fire Nation navy. One of the most powerful fortresses in the Phoenix Empire now resides on the island and can be seen for miles around...

The famed retreat which allegedly holds spiritual powers of rejuvenation and self-realization, Ember Island is famed for its acting troupe, the Ember Island Players, and its busy beaches, usually stocked with a veritable "Who's that?" of wealthy socialites. Ember Island's sister island, however, hides a sinister prison designed to house the most undesirable prisoners the Empire and Fire Nation have -- The Boiling Rock. It is said that there is no escape from the rock... but its history occasionally proves otherwise...

Conquered and beaten into submission, the Southern Water Tribe is little more than a labor colony governed by a tyrannical Phoenix Empire governor. People from all corners of the world are sent there to live out the rest of their lives as slaves to the governor and the Phoenix King. Many come from other prisons and colonies like Huo Jian Yu and Boiling Rock. The Tribe lands are now being hunted to the point of the extinction of all wildlife to provide any exotic products possible for the nobles in the capitols and the Southern Water Tribe has become just another prison colony and shanty town under the brutal heel of the Phoenix King's officers.

Founded after the defeat of the Earth Kingdom, Crystal City is nestled underground in the heart of the northern mountains, west of Huo Jian Yu. The city is hidden from the spies of the Fire Nation and Phoenix Empire by extensive underground labyrinths and elaborate traps and tricks intended to let the trusted in and make the cities enemies disappear forever. Home to many thousands of people, refugees from the evils of the Empire, the city is a safe haven unknown to the Fire Nation or the Empire...

Now the bones of its former self, what was the Northern Water Tribe is a broken ruin of ice hiding a powerful secret -- the gateway to the Reach. The true North City is a fortress of ice which stands in the very heart of the North Pole, a powerful castle built of diamond-hard ice and guarded by a legion of warriors who rally to the Northern Queen's banner from all across the world. With an entrance only accessible by a waterbender hidden beneath the old Northern Water Tribe palace and a rail tunnel which would take days to travel without such bending to drive the icy carts, the Reach is well outside of the Empire's reach.