It is an important and popular fact that hell has nine layers. The native baatezu ain't a bunch of stupid fiends, waiting passively for do-gooders to come an "clean out" the place. No, you won't find a fouler and cannier bunch of creatures anywhere - not even in the Abyss. These fiends disguise their dark hearts with a foundation of order, which at first might sound encouraging. Instead, it makes the plane one of rigid an unyielding law, a realm filled with struggles for absolute, total domination far worse than any Prime Material Plane's most terrible totalitarian rule.
There are two major groups of beastly folk in Baator: First, there's the Dark Eight - eight powerful pit fiends who control large armies of baatezu and other creatures. The eight direct the baatezu forces of the Blood War. The other group comprises the fearsome beings known as the Lords of the Nine. Each of these rules a layer of Baator, hovering in status somewhere between the greatest of pit fiends and actual powers themselves. Much is unknown regarding these beings (including most of their names), but that may be for the best - a planewalker's better off not even referring to the Lords at all.
Each of Baator's nine layers has its own unique environment, but they're all inhospitable and deadly.
No comments:
Post a Comment