Pandemonium

The Windswept Depths of Pandemonium was the Outer Plane associated with the chaotic neutral and chaotic evil alignments.

“My god! The wind! The howling! It's driving me mad!”

Natives = Howler
Colour pools = Magenta
Tuning fork = Iron, C♯
Shape and size = Four infinite layers Gravity = Objective Directional: away from the center of passages and caverns
Time = Normal
Magic trait = Normal, but sound-based spells have very limited range

Layers

Pandesmos
Cocytus
Phlegethon
Agathion

Description

Pandemonium is made entirely of rock pierced by innumerable tunnels and caverns large and small. All open space is filled with howling winds that carries the sound of every word, shout, or scream uttered in the place. Without adequate protection, beings with hearing are rendered temporarily deaf in a matter of seconds and permanently deaf in a few minutes. Normal fires cannot survive and there is no natural light. Conversation can only be accomplished by shouting at close range.

Gravity in Pandemonium always pulls away from the centre of any cavern so a traveler can walk on the floor, walls, or ceiling. Streams and rivers flow along one surface of a cave, or inexplicably down the middle through the air. The larger caverns are hundreds to thousands of miles/kilometers deep, wide, and tall, and the winds there can lift up small humanoids and carry them far away before a dangerous landing.

Pandemonium has four known layers, each with slightly different conditions:

Pandesmos

The topmost layer with portals to Limbo, the Abyss, and Concordant Opposition is called Pandesmos and is the most habitable layer of the four. This layer has the largest caverns and the river Styx flowing through the rocky wastes. Nearly all great cities and citadels in Pandemonium are found there.

The Archdemon Krampus resides within Stygia (the cold fifth layer of The Hells), using a gateway into Pandesmos to travel through into Esau on each Enjils Aura Sitaare.

Cocytus

The second layer is called the layer of lamentation because the wind whistling through the tunnels carries the cries of anguish and the sounds of sorrow. The passages on this level are narrower making the noise shrill enough to drive insane anyone with unprotected hearing. Unlike the natural looking tunnels and caves of Pandesmos, the passages of Cocytus are carved by beings unknown to even the Deities.

Phlegethon

The third layer is the layer of dark and damp. The walls are matte black and absorbed all light with no reflection - all light sources can only illuminate half as far as normal. Many rivers and streams cut through the black rock and the constant dripping of eons built up stalactites, stalagmites, and other cave formations.

Agathion

Agathion is the deepest known layer of Pandemonium, and is made of solid rock with no tunnels and only giant spherical bubbles of air or vacuum. Those bubbles with a barrier to Phlegethon are filled with huge windstorms capable of flinging even large humanoids around. Pockets without a connection to the next level are often the final resting places of things that never should not be awakened.

Alternative Name(s)

Limbo

Type

Plane of Existence

Location under

Moata Solar System