Stygia

The landscape of Stygia is anything but land: instead, it is a collection of jagged icebergs, massive in scale, floating in a sea of water so cold that it’s said it freezes a mortal’s soul solid in an instant. If that weren’t foreboding enough, the River Styx winds its way through it all, carving a distinct path through the icebergs and even the chill sea; its currents roiling away into eternity.
The unending cacophony of crunching, crashing ice is pervasive throughout Stygia. The sloshing waters capture anything that falls away, be it an unknowably heavy chunk of ancient ice or an entire city that spent millennia atop an iceberg. What treasures might lie below the surface are unknowable, as the The River Styx infects and draws from all water here, and any creature that comes into contact with it is subject to its mighty and terrible powers.
Some claim to have spied a figure, motionless yet terrifying, within one of the largest icebergs. Dread Levistus, ruler of Stygia, has been trapped here for crimes including declaring war upon the archdevil Geryon and other incidents that only Asmodeus remembers… but still, Levistus bides his time, drawing in his quota of souls, and plots.
In earlier days, Levistus and Geryon warred extensively over control of Stygia. In time, this drew the attention of Asmodeus who saw fit to end the quarrel by granting Levistus control of the realm by trapping him in an iceberg and sending Geryon away for other matters related to the great Blood War. Even so, agents of both archdevils skirmish against the other when possible, for their age-old hatred infects those that hold them dear.

The Lord of Stygia

Levistus is trapped and immobilized within an iceberg of Asmodeus’ creation. This prison can’t be broken down or out of, and he can only be released when Asmodeus has decreed it. The iceberg changes course regularly, sometimes crashing into other chunks of ice or vessels, and sometimes veering away from them at the last moment. Whether this is because of Asmodeus’ doing or that of Levistus, no one is truly certain.
Even so, Levistus has managed to turn the crushing loneliness of his predicament into a platform from which he can formulate and launch his plots. The ice grants him security against those that work against him with physical or arcane threats, and although it removes his ability to directly manifest his own reactions, it has done nothing to dissuade him from amassing an impressive amount of arcane power. He plots and schemes from his near-banishment, gathering souls and warlocks indebted to him as he sets out to avenge his eons-long imprisonment.

Type

Dimensional plane

Location under

Baator