The Nine Hells and Seven Cities

The Court of Seven Cities

The Seven Cities of Hell scheme and plot endlessly, each ruled by an archdevil seeking domination over the others to become the King of Hell. Should this happen, the legions of Hell would erupt across the timescape, bathing the upper worlds in black soulblood.
Each archdevil sends an emissary to serve in the Court of Seven Cities, as required by the Onyx Edict, the founding document of Hell. But the court is infested with servants of these representatives, each one a point of connection in the ever-shifting web of deceit, subterfuge, and bloodshed.

Rakat, the Baron of Styx

Hate devils are brutal, ferocious infantry. They radiate antipathy so strongly that anyone in their aura begins to hate their friends, their allies—even themselves.
Styx, the City of Blood, was sacked in the War of Forgetfulness and is now least among the Seven Cities. Their representative in the court is a lowly baron—but a baron who, since the war, is determined to not forget what Styx suffered.
A hate devil of sizable power, Rakat intends to pit the court against itself and destroy it from within. Their blinding rage hides a scheming mind.

Moranon, Marquis of Acheron

Nearly indestructible, stone devils are the bulwarks of the Seven Cities. No unit of stone devils has ever lost morale in the history of the timescape. Their hearts grind spirits into black soulblood that corrupts everything it touches.
Loyal and unyielding, Marquis Moranon steadily serves Asmodeus, archdevil of Acheron, the City of Whispers. Moranon’s fidelity is admirable, Asmodeus just wishes his servant was a little more ambitious…

Sryz, Count of Naraka

The razors of hell, steel devils are highly mobile terror weapons deployed to wreak maximum carnage in battle. It is impossible to fight one without suffering wounds; even psionic attacks cause the mind to bleed.
It’s rare for a steel devil to enter the ranks of Hell’s nobility, but Count Sryz sees the weakness brought about by the Wars of Forgetfulness and intends to quickly ascend to reigning as the prince—or to destroy the court in the process.

Indix, Earl of Sheol

Lore devils are living compendiums of spent scrolls and dead codices. Keepers of lost arcane secrets, they wield cunning magics and feed on the energy of weaker mages.
Lord Indix is composed of the burning pages of the once-powerful codex mutabilis, the Book of Change. When the arcane tome was thrown into the caldera of Mount Vor, the book was incinerated, and deep within Sheol, the City of Death, Lord Indix was created.
Indix is the Book of Change given life—as such, they have access to now-abolished rituals, ones of immense and unmatched power. The Lords of Sheol, the City of Death, turn a blind eye to Earl Indix’s machinations, fearing the lord’s power even as they rely on it.

Horat, Duke of Kayrgan

Fang devils are the high priests of Hell, channeling unholy power to twist and subvert their enemies, mutating them into unrecognizable monstrosities. Horns erupt from their skulls and twist to pierce their eyes, their flesh splits open to reveal bloody gashes filled with teeth—blood that turns to poison as it drips from the maws in profane salivation.
Horat is hierarch of the Envenomed, a cult of pain. His wicked power twists and corrupts everything it touches. The Envenomed have spies throughout the Seven Cities, but thus far, Horat has been loyal to Pharyon. Many in Hell’s cognoscenti believe there is a real alliance between the Duke of Kasyrgan and the Prince of Dis, though what this portends, no one knows.

Pharyon, Prince of Dis

Oracles of the Court of Seven Cities, the eye devils are inward-looking prophets. They speak in riddles, and only the Cult of the Mirrored Eye can decipher the proclamations of the Eyes of Hell.
Once again, the power of Dis rises and the City of Lies rules over Hell. Dispater dispatches his newest lieutenant, Pharyon the Edictor, Revelator, Lord of Answers, Oracle to the Court.
For the first time in the (admittedly now ruined) lists of Hell, an eye devil leads the Court of Seven Cities, and the devil’s dark portents guide the unholy court. The eye devils’ power to see past, future, and alternate realities makes them rather unpredictable on the battlefield, but Pharyon is even more cryptic and inward-looking than most of his kin.