Phlegethos

Phlegethos was the fourth layer of the Nine Hells. A blazing desolation of fire and lava.

It's no use dancing around to avoid the flames. If yer trespassin' hereabouts, the fires know it and cuddle up close to you til the baatezu can get around to dealing with you. — Unknown

Geography

The fourth circle was the Hell that most resembled the stereotype of a fiery world of eternal damnation, filled with active volcanoes, rivers of liquid fire, molten rock, ash hills, smoking pits, unbearable heat, all wracked by tremors and earthquakes. Even the air seemed aflame and thus Phlegethos was considered to be fire-dominant. In the World Axis view, Phlegethos was a cavern several miles below Minauros, where burning lava poured out of fissures in the ceiling. The city of Abriymoch was the seat of power in this realm, built of hardened magma, obsidian, and crystal in the caldera of an extinct volcano which provided visitors some protection from the elemental environment found throughout the rest of the plane.

Type

Region

Location under

Nine Hells

Ruling/Owning Rank

Archduke