ShadowHell
The Nine Hells was a lower plane filled with evil, scheming Devils and ruled over by Asmodeus, Supreme Master of the Nine Hells.
The Hells are divided up into nine separate layers, only accessible travelling down the River Styx.
Now, the Nine Hells have taken on a new name, ShadowHell, and is under the rule of Medmorn, Ruler of Shadow. Closely aligned with Shadowfell.
Geography
Each of the nine Hells was unique and usually mirrored the malevolent characteristics of its ruler, or perhaps the archdevils were shaped by the domains they schemed to control, no one can be certain. In earlier cosmologies, each Hell was a separate infinite layer rigidly joined to its neighbours by barriers at fixed locations. After the Spellplague, the domains of the archdevils were described as territories (large, but finite) or circles. The relationship between layers and circles is not fully known. What follows are descriptions of the nine Hells reported by various cosmologists working under different cosmological models, gathered, collated, and summarized.
History
The Nine Hells of Baator, sometimes shortened to Hell or Hells, and named Baator (pronounced: /beɪˈɑːtɔːr/ bay-AH-tor[22]) in Infernal, was the home of the devils and the plane that embodied lawful evil. It was a plane of sinister wickedness and institutional cruelty, its denizens organized into a strict caste system with a very rigid chain of command. Each of the nine Hells had its own physical laws or properties of matter, but all were inhospitable or deadly to outsiders.
The principal inhabitants of the Nine Hells/Baator were the devils, and their offspring in varieties too numerous to catalog here. See the main article for descriptions of the myriad devilkind. Unlike the demons of the Abyss, the devils were highly organized in their quest for power and status—scheming and plotting power plays, coups, and assassinations.
In addition to the devils, this plane was home to bonespears, gathra, haraknin, hell hounds, imps, night hags, nightmares, and maelephants. Also occasionally encountered were achaierai, barghests, hellcats, mephits, rakshasa, and stench kows.
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ShadowHell
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