Pandémonium (plane)
See also: Pandémonium
In the Cosmology standard of the Roleplay Fantasy Keeps and dragons, the Pandémonium (or the Depths beaten by the winds of Pandémonium ) is a Plan outside where the creatures of alignments bad chaotic and chaotic neutral are sent after their death.
This plan consists of an immense cave with complexity and the extent infinite. Moreover, a strident wind howls continuously with the ears of the inhabitants of Pandémonium, making number of them completely insane. Few creatures are originating in this plan; the majority of the individuals who live there did not have the choice. It is one of the many External Plans based on alignment belonging to the standard cosmology of Keeps and dragons. This cosmology is used in the decorations of countryside of Planescape , Greyhawk and certain editions of the forgotten Royaumes .
In the decoration of countryside of Planescape , Pandémonium shelters the general headquarter of the Morne Cabal , one of the factions of the play.
Layers
Each of the four layers of Pandémonium is inserted a little further in the depths of the caves.Gorellik, the god Gnoll, wanders through Pandémonium.
Pandesmos
Pandesmos is the widest layer, and least inhospitable of all. The sources of the Styx are located some share on this layer.A certain number of divine kingdoms are localized on Pandesmos, among which that of Loki and Aurile, that of Talos and that of Ho Masubi.
Cocyte
Cocyte is also known under the name of layer of the lamentation , because it is here that the gusts of wind are most powerful.The kingdoms of the gods Erythnul, Hruggek and Cyric are established on this layer.
Phlégéthon
Phlégéthon shelters the kingdoms of the gods Zeboim and Diirinka.
Agathion
Agathion contains mainly holes, which also prove to be gates towards other plans.
Historical inspiration
The name Pandémonium comes from Pandémonium, the capital of the Enfer in the Paradis lost of John Milton. It means " all démons" in Greek.Cocyte and Phlégéthon is the names of two rivers of the Hells in the Greek Mythologie. They are the two affluents of the Achéron. Cocyte is also the name of the major level of the Hell in the Divine comedy of Dante.
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