Bottomless Pit
The Bottomless Pit forms a great maw nearly three miles wide near the geographic center of the Howling Threshold. Rumors suggest that the rent formed in the earliest days of the qlippoth– ghaele conflict, when some unknowable horror unleashed by the plane’s original masters backfired and tore a hole in The Abyss. Eventually, the plane fused its own infernal energy with the nullspace in the void, in a sense “adopting” its own wound as a fullblown Abyssal layer. Shortly thereafter, Abaddon constructed the great palace of Gulthrax as an homage to himself and cast the structure, himself, and his entire demonic entourage into the chasm. The lore of Demon and Angel alike claims that Gulthrax eventually will pass out of the pit to land upon Eldarr, at which point the prophesied apocalypse will begin in earnest and Abaddon’s locust demons will flood the world.
Gulthrax maintains its own gravity and sense of stability, though it constantly spins and bounces off the layer’s walls. The fortress contains a large variety of demons, most of whom look forward to the End Times with utter devotion to their liege. Locust demons dominate nearly every part of the shaft—seldom will a traveler falling or flying down the Bottomless Pit come across a spot where she cannot see at least a dozen of the creatures. Perhaps a hundred brave vrocks fly throughout the chasm, dining on the souls who fall or are thrown into the pit (the locust demons ignore such provender).
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