Sundered Chain

As close to a place of pilgrimage as you’ll find in this accursed place. A beacon to those seeking the missing link or looking for a way out.

— The Cartographer

Colossal spiked chains extend across the hellscape, their links partially buried under the ash and large chunks of masonry. Each broken chain is roughly a mile long.

Large chain Tether Acedia to the other floors, alien bind in the otherwise relatively peaceful hellscape of Acedia. Long ago, one of this chain broke, leaving behind its broken bonds and scattered chunks of masonry.
Cretures who examine a chain can tell that some intense, supernatural force caused one or more of its links to sunder. Although the cause of the damage can’t be ascertained.
Chain devils often make pilgrimages to these sites.