Minauros

A road lined with gibbets leads from the lower gate of Dis and descends deeper and deeper as the city’s cavern gradually broadens into the even vaster cavern of Minauros. Dank and brooding, Minauros extends for three hundred miles or so beneath a ceiling that is rarely more than a few hundred feet overhead. Towering columns of rock scattered every mile or two support the ceiling above. The only light comes from the faint luminescence of stinking, yellow-green swamp mists. Oily, foul-smelling water seeps down through the ceiling and falls as an endless rain to create a black, muddy bog throughout most of Minauros. In some places, warmth rising up from below heats the bogs of Minauros into stinking mud geysers.
Minauros is the domain of the archdevil Mammon , the King of Greed. Given to insatiable lust and avarice, Mammon is a vile, duplicitous creature that retains his position only by shamelessly fawning before Asmodeus. Despised by the other Archdukes of Hell, Mammon must find his allies beyond the Nine Hells. Consequently, he seeks to corrupt powerful mortals through avarice and lust. Mammon constantly promotes and casts aside lesser devils, so the mires of Minauros are full of devils hoping to win their way back into his good graces.
Mammon refuses to spend any more coin than necessary to keep the soul marketplace in the Sinking City functioning. Devils and fiends from across the planes gather here to trade souls. The place bustles with activity as caravans arrive and depart and merchants haggle over their wares. Buildings rest haphazardly atop the ruins of those that have sloughed into the muck. The roads are little more than huge stones sunk into the swamp, needing constant replacement as they slowly submerge until the mud consumes them.

The Sinking City

Mammon’s seat of power is the city of Minauros, from which the cavern takes its name. Black muck oozes up between the paving stones, streets buckle and shift, and from time to time entire buildings vanish into the slime below. Mammon’s gilded palace leans drunkenly as its foundations sink, but somehow it never completely collapses. Within the palace, the King of Greed surrounds himself with vast amounts of tawdry and tasteless (but valuable) treasure and legions of lesser devils.

Jangling Hiter

Jangling Hiter, the City of Chains, is the domain of the chain devils (kytons). The buildings of Jangling Hiter are kept from sinking into the layer’s mire by great chains anchored in the rock of the cavern ceiling. Many are the torments of the Nine Hells, but nowhere are the damned more cruelly or creatively made to suffer as they are here. Damned souls are brought here from all corners of the plane and herded into Jangling Hiter by the scores every day. The bloated archdevil Sagirsa, a loyal vassal to Mammon, governs the city.

Labyrinth of Truths

The Labyrinth, a grim fortress of worn gray stone, is a vast repository of records kept by Mammon’s underlings. Most of these are useless now, but a few are of inestimable worth— ancient treasure maps, books holding terrible rituals, and scrolls that record words of power forgotten elsewhere. A horde of lesser devils guards the Labyrinth.

Type

Dimensional plane

Location under

The Nine Hells of Baator

Owner/Ruler

Mammon, Archduke of Minauros