Dis

Dis

The second circle of the Nine Hells, when described as its own layer, is a flat barren plane containing little more than black, stagnant rivers, stretching for thousands of miles until it reaches some rolling hills. The sky is a cloudy dull green shot through with lightning. In the center of this plane rises the Iron City of Dis, several miles in height and hundreds of miles wide. The foul rivers radiate from a moat big enough to be called a lake surrounding the Iron City. The World Tree view of the Iron City was much the same but bigger, having been expanded by countless minions following Dispater's grand plan. The walls of the buildings and the stones of the streets glow the dull red of hot iron; anything more than brief skin contact results 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 iron walls. Above it all rises the Iron Tower where Dispater sits and schemes, untouchable. In the World Axis view, the city of Dis is enclosed in a huge cavern accessible from Avernus through a tremendous iron gate in the side of a mountain.

Type

Dimensional plane