Seven Hells
According to the creation myth of Demon-kind, the grand Angelic sorcerer, Yahweh, banished Lucifer and his Luciferians from the High Heavens many hundreds of thousands of years ago after the cataclysmic Divine Civil War that tore through the Heavens. Yahweh saw it fit that Lucifer and his followers live out a life of mortality upon the the Known World by imprisoning them on a barren continent known as Ragnarok. However, later studies and ventures into the Outer Planes by daring planewalkers, corroborated with long-buried accounts by ancient demonic historians that have been recently resurfaced, revealed more to this story.
During the banishment, most of Lucifer's followers were lost to the void along the way. Instead of ending up on Ragnarok as intended, these unfortunate souls found themselves unintentionally banished to the Infernal Abyss The concoction of volatile, chaotic energies from the Chaotic Dark, the Plane of Elemental Fire, and the Infernal Abyss transformed them into twisted, tortured mirrors of their brethren in the Materium. Monstrous creatures of all shapes and sizes, their discordant shapes mirrored the chaotic realms of their new home. They became the species collectively known as Infernals, and the Seven Hells became their home within the Infernal Abyss.
The Infernals embraced their vices with open arms; Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Wrath; each sin with its own depraved twist. Infernals prey upon the weaknesses and excesses of mortal beings as part of a cosmic game between the forces of order & chaos for the most mortal souls; conscription by temptation and entrapment.
The Seven Hells consist of the prime plane and the seven demi-planes.
The prime plane of Hell is a flat barren plane containing little more than black, stagnant rivers that stretch for thousands of miles/kilometers until they reach rolling hills of ash, and the sky is a cloudy dull grey shot through with constant lightning storms.
Mephistus, watches over his domain. This is the central location where all seven lords of the seven hells gather in the Infernal Court to squabble, fight and plot against the wider cosmos. From the top of the Tower of Envy, they look upon the Materium with avaricious, eager, scheming eyes, seeking to claim it for themselves.
Mortals that fall afoul of the entrancing manipulations of Leviathoss are enslaved as builders to the Tower and its the wider workforce. Every year the slave populace grows, creating impressive works of Infernal architecture, putting lesser Infernals to shame. Every year, the Tower grows by twenty feet, growing closer to the Materium the Lords of Hell desire so much.
Cannibalism, intentional or unintentional, is not an uncommon occurrence and is often overlooked in preference to the pleasure of consumption, which is not the only torment that belies this demi-plane, as addiction to many forms of Magic or other substances is commonly exploited for servitude.
Under the gluttonous rule of the obese mass of Beelzebaar, all who succumb to the Halls of Gluttony are, at some point, fed to the legions of Hell to sustain their war efforts.
succeed in doing so, legions of servants and a golden throne await them.
However, woe unto those who sit upon the golden throne. Those who do are transformed into piles of gold and are both added to the riches that decorate the Dungeons, and to the endless wealth of the covetous Mammorr.
Beneath the houses of lust are endless dungeons of depravity, where pain and pleasure intermingle with one another. When simple pleasures of the flesh are no longer enough to satisfy, and blood must be spilled to satiate, this is where mortals are tempted. Naked flesh is stung, reddened, bloodied, twisted, and altered amidst cries of euphoria, with death being an artistic climax.
Mortals tempted by the minions of Sartan are pitted endlessly against dangerous foes. For mages and magic users seeking a prideful lust for more power, they might be pitted against Intellect Devourers. For warriors who boast of their heroic strengths and deeds, they may be forced to fight a Goristro--beasts of burden from the Fields of Wrath. The best of the best will be conscripted into Hell's armies against their will. The rest will be forced to fight until death, wherein their souls are forced to slave away beneath the arenas.
The Infernals of the Pits of Sloth are insectoid in appearance, content to serve Belphegara, the corpulent hive queen who sits upon her throne of lost and lethargic souls.
The walls squelch and shift with the egg-sacks of her inexhaustible young. Those tempted by her minions to join her realm are pampered and doted on by her chitinous workers. Fungus grows upon the apathetic who have not moved in centuries, content to waste away doing nothing until they are claimed by the Queen's throne; to soothe her many bedsores for eternity.
The Fields of Wrath are where the most bloodthirsty Infernals are trained, where the most vicious mortal prisoners are conscripted as fodder, and where monstrous Infernal beasts of war are tamed. By the orders of Legion himself, Hell's innumerable Infernal hordes pour through into the Chaotic Dark to wage war upon the denizens of the Realm of Insanity.
The Citadel of Saal
In the center of this plane sits the Citadel of Saal that spans several miles in height and hundreds of miles wide. The foul rivers across Hell radiate from a moat big enough to be called a lake surrounding the obsidian city. The walls of the buildings and the stones of the streets glow like hot iron; more than brief skin contact would result in severe burns. Prisoners of war, tormented underlings, criminals, and kidnap victims are kept in underground dungeons where their wails of woe can be heard filtering up through small vents in the obsidian walls.The Tower of Envy
Towering over the Citadel of Saal, five hundred miles high, sits the Tower of Envy. Atop its peak sits the throne of the Prime Evil, where the prime ruler of Hell,The Halls of Gluttony
The Halls of Gluttony are an endless series of twisted dining halls filled with tables and troughs of slop. This is gathered by slaves and lesser Infernals to serve the countless grotesque, obese, and unwashed masses. Many have attempted to escape the halls of gluttony, but find themselves too corpulent to move.The Dungeons of Greed
The Dungeons of Greed are an infinite labyrinth of ancient and timeless ruins and caverns large and small. Embedded into the very walls and scattered throughout are pieces of gold, valuable gemstones, and priceless artifacts. These dungeons are only found in the dreams of many adventurers seeking wealth beyond imagining. Should those persistent enough to venture through to the very endThe Houses of Lust
The Houses of Lust are great manors of twisted flesh and withing bodies, rooted in the middle of an endless barren waste of pitch-black darkness, illuminated by a bright red sun. Distant rolling hills are in fact the sumptuous curves of sleeping women, merged with the haunting beauty of the landscape. It is here and around these great twisted manors where the transformed souls of the weak-willed endlessly play in ecstasy, forever blind, physically and metaphorically, to all other senses. They are content to serve as simple creatures and slaves to the androgynous beauty of Asmodia.The Arenas of Pride
The Arenas of Pride, where boundless glory through victory is championed as the only cause that matters. To demonstrate one's superiority above others is the only measure of one's worth, for all else is folly and demonstrates only weakness. The Arenas of Pride are nightmarish. Enormous ringed stadiums of jagged obsidian and sweltering fire. Infernals gather at the Arenas of Pride to see demonstrations of superiority, be it through mind or might.The Pits of Sloth
The Pits of Sloth are a repulsive collection of enormous hives and caves that reach down through an infinite layer of rock. The Pits of Sloth are the oldest of all the hellish demi-planes, and their residences are boundlessly patient.Fields of Wrath
The Fields of Wrath are the Infernal staging grounds for the eternal war of Armageddon. This demi-plane is connected to the Chaotic Dark through splintered, chaotic fractures in reality. The demi-plane's landscape is littered with ashen craters, blood-red lightning storms, and barren wastes ravaged by an eternity of war. An infinitely long cliffside descends down forever into the Chaotic Dark where the two realms connect, and broken, fractured rocks from the Chaotic Dark continuously collide into the cliff.
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Dimensional plane
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Included Organizations
Owner/Ruler
Owning Organization
Asmodia
Beelzebaar
Belphegara
Legion
Leviathoss
Mammorr
Sartan
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