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Cania was the eighth layer of the Nine Hells of Baator. It was a relentless realm of seemingly living cold.[4]
Rumors & Legends
The tiefling midwife Destiny Agganor from Nightstone had a set of runes burned onto her front door to ward off unwanted visitors. It contained a prayer that included damning any intruders to freeze for a millennium in Cania.[10]
Notable Locations
- Kintyre, an enormous uninhabited city of strange architecture that was buried deep under the ice.[1]
- Mephistar, home of Mephistopheles. A heated citadel carved out of the ice and located atop the giant glacier Nargus, whose movement was controlled by the Lord of the Eighth himself.[4]
- The Pit, a dark and windy shaft several hundred feet in diameter. It was heavily guarded by ice devils, and ended in a lake of frozen slush. At the bottom of the lake, at a depth of 1,001 fathoms (1,831 meters) lay a portal that was the primary access point to the ninth layer, Nessus.[1][4]
Inhabitants
The main inhabitants of Cania were gelugons, whose activities in the layer remained largely unknown. The environment was so inhospitable that even other devils avoided visiting the layer.[1]
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Nessus
Nessus was the ninth and deepest layer of the Nine Hells of Baator.[4]
“Don't you know you're not allowed here?” — A gelugon guard of the portal to Nessus.[6]
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Homebrew: Gehenna
In addition to Devils, Fiends of Gehenna are often known as a Daemons and Yugoloth.
The basic General unit of Gehenna is a Greater Nycaloth. The basic unit of the Armies is a Mezzoloth. They use mindless Larve for cannon fodder. Gehena's basic legion unit strength 5,000-11,000+.
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Gehenna
The Bleak Eternity of Gehenna(pronounced: /gɛˈhɛnnɑː/ ge-HEN-na[12]or: /gɛˈhɛnə/ ge-HEN-uh[13]) was an Outer Plane in the Great Wheel cosmology model representing alignments between neutral evil and lawful evil.[7][14]
“Life is an exercise in will. Now hold still while I exercise mine.” — Monteirus Cherif, a student of Gehenna's lessons.[15]Description
The four layers of Gehenna were infinite planes with gravity at a forty-five degree angle to the ground, making travelers feel as if they were on the side of a mountain with no base or peak. Anyone losing their footing could tumble for miles/kilometers before finding enough purchase on the slope to halt their fall. Nearly all terrain that was not a river of water or lava was slightly slippery to quite slick. All structures were either built onto or carved into the slopes. Heat and light came from the ground, much like Tarterus, but the source was volcanic: lava flows, vents, fumaroles, and mud pots were very common. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occurred often, tearing the land apart. On the hotter layers, unprotected flammable items and creatures would catch fire from the glowing ground or superheated gases being ejected. The barriers between layers were always underground, usually in dead end corridors.[10]
Khalas
The uppermost layer, Khalas, was the most livable of the four planes[10]with many waterfalls cascading down the slopes, the largest being the river Styx. The Styx followed a rough path down the slope, fell for thousands of feet/meters, ran through twisty rapids before finally disappearing into underground passages. Steam rose into the infinite and empty black sky. making the horizon glow a dull red. Khalas touched the Astral Plane and had connections to Hades, the Nine Hells, and Concordant Opposition. The portals appeared as black chasms in the floor of deep underground caverns. While there was no way of telling where these would lead, intelligent travelers had made markings on the walls by many of them to indicate the portal's destination, if one could read them.[1]
Chamada
The second layer of Gehenna was the most violently active layer with lava cascades thousands of miles/kilometers wide and city-sized volcanoes yawning open on the slopes. The air was foul with acrid smoke for 10 miles (16 kilometers) above the surface and would cause blindness to unprotected eyes and had the effect of a stinking cloud on the lungs. Below ground the air was fresher but stank of burning flesh and hair.[1]
Mungoth
Mungoth was a land of falling ash and burning snow. The furnaces of this layer were fewer and farther apart, allowing ice and snow to build up in the darker places between active areas. Travelers had to brave the never-ending avalanches of wet snow and fiery rock. Underground passages were relatively safe.[1]
Krangath
The fourth layer was devoid of any volcanic activity, even underground. All was dark and cold. The name of this layer meant literally "dead furnaces".[1]
Cosmography
Mount Olympus connected to Gehenna at randomly changing locations throughout the plane. It was unclear why the mountain had a connection at all to the plane, but some sages speculated that the mountainous character of the plane attracted the planar conduit there.[16]
Inhabitants
The only creatures known to be native to this plane were the barghests,[1] running through the rifts of Khalas and occasionally found in smaller number on the other layers, and the pyroclastic dragons.[2] All the other creatures originally came from the adjacent lower planes, mostly to hide from more powerful beings that wished to enslave them. Gehenna was often a plane of exile for the less powerful archdevils and daemon taskmasters.[1]
Realms
Even lesser deities tended to avoid Gehenna. Those that leaned toward Law were recruited into the hierarchy of the Nine Hells and those that favored evil tended toward Hades.[1] Here is a list of the Powers known to have called this plane home at some point:
- Bhaal, Lord of Murder, once had a realm here[17][18] on Khalas called the Throne of Blood.[19]
- Gaknulak, god of kobolds, had a realm called Aknuthrak on Khalas.[20]
- Iyachtu Xvim's Bastion of Hate resided on the layer of Chamada.[21]
- Loviatar, Maiden of Pain,[22] had a fortress of ice in Mungoth[1][23][24] named Ondtland[25][26] before moving to the Barrens of Doom and Despair as described by the World Tree cosmology model.[27]
- Maanzecorian, a mind flayer god, had a realm on Chamada called Rictus.[20]
- Math Mathonwy, a Celtic god of magic, had a realm on Khalas called Corriegrave.[28]
- Mellifleur the Lichlord had an obsidian citadel on Krangath called Hopelorn.[29]
- Memnor, a god of cloud giants, lived in a realm called Thraotor.[20]
- Shargaas, Night Lord of the orcs,[30][31] lived underground on Krangath in a realm called the Night Below[32] and controlled the deepest caverns of Mungoth[1] before moving to Nishrek as described by the World Tree and World Axis cosmology models.[33][34]
- Squerrik, god of wererats, once lived in the realm of Cheisin on Khalas.[20]
- Velsharoon's realm of Death's Embrace once resided on Mungoth.[35]
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