along its surfaces with ease; those knocked from its perches fall to their eventual deaths, broken and shat- tered on the bridges and pinnacles below. Streams of water and waste pour from the more stable sections of the realm, drying to dust or drifting away as clouds. The lord of ‘forremor is the vile and hateful Lamashtu, Demon Queen of Monstrous Births. She rules from the prison known as Onstrakker’s Nest, a striking edifice of timber, bones, earth, and stone pillars hundreds of miles in diameter. Her former consort Pazuzu bound her here, when Torremor was that demon lord's demesne. Though she has long since taken control of the layer, Lamashtu remains impaled on the gleaming spi held her fast. ‘Torremor swarms with bizarre demon hybrids not seen elsewhere in the Abyss, and serves as a kind of shrine for flesh cultists seeking demonic or mon strous grafts. Worldly visitors cluster within the few solid structures that dot the realm, WRITHING REALM Sprawling tunnels filled with a rank, writhing darkness e with which Pazuzu ING REALM TRAITS ssal layer. | Shape: Subterranean realm of winding one hundred miles in length; bounded Normal. ‘Abyssal mutability. (Demon lords ther powers are able to influence their ndings.) Affinity: Burrowing creatures gain 2 +2 bonus ir burrow speed. Untold miles of spiraling subterranean corridors create the Writhing Realm of Ugudenk, the Squirm- ing King. So extensive and frequent are Ugudenk’s excavations that this 177th layer of the Abyss has collapsed in on itself many times, entombing his ser vants and followers. Ugudenk was unleashed on the Abyss following a brief tryst between Zuggtmoy and the primordial Torog, the King that Crawls. Drawn by his father’s power, Ugudenk has designs on establish ing a permanent gate between the Underdark of the mortal world and his Writhing Realm in zhe Abyss. In recent centuries, the Demon Lord of Worms and Hungry Parasites has taken to buzrowing into neighboring abyssal layers along the route followed by the Blood Rift. This is dangerous for Ugudenk, for each time he breaches the rock walls of the rift, he risks severing his realm’s connection with the Abyss. Despite the peril, Ugudenk has managed to carve away and infest a small corner of Hollow’s Heart, 176th layer of the Abyss and the realm of the demon lord Fraz-Urb'luu. ZIONYN A wasteland inundated with a discordant drone of deafen ing, maddening sound e: Abyssal layer. ‘and Shape: Vermin-infested badlands abutting is of thick resin, two thousand miles across; p Abyssal mutability. (Demon lords ‘powers are able to influence their d gain a +1 bonus to the attack roll Heal- restore only halfas many hit points as, 1g Discordance: Attacks that have the under or psychic keyword gain a +2 bonus to the ck roll. Zionyn is the 663rd layer of the Abyss—domain of the ancient obyrith lord Obox-ob, the first to claim the title Prince of Demons. Slain by the treachery of the Queen of Chaos (page 8), Obox-ob was later reborn by the will of the Abyss. With his power stripped from him, he now languishes in fetid Zionyn. Reduced to a mere Prince of Vermin, the once-great demon lord dreams of slaying Demogorgon, reclaiming his title, and purging the Abyss of its current masters. The seas of Zionyn are a putrid sludge that the insectoid demons serving as Obox-ob’s debased aristocracy use in the construction of enormously complex hive cities. Mortal victims are dipped into tis reeking miasma, which petrifies them at the exact moment of suffocation. Such victims become unique sculptures of death—corpse pillars from which the great towers and cathedrals honoring the Prince of Vermin are built. CHAPTER 2 | The Abyss > <ROLL OF A YSSAL LAYERS The following table summarizes the most well-known, layers of the Abyss. Bold entries are featured in this chapter or in other sources, as noted. In the table, the abbreviation MotP refers to Manual of the Planes; Dra refers to Dragon magazine. ABYSSAL LAYERS ons T Plain of Thousand Portals/Pazunia 2 Drille’s Hives 3 The Forgotten Land 4 The Blood Rift 5 Wormblood 7 ThePhantom Plane 8 ‘The Skin-Shedder 9 Burningwater 11 Molrat TL Twelvetrees 14 The Steaming Fen 17 Death's Reward 21 The Sixth Pyre 23 The Iron Wastes 27 Malignebula 32 Sholo-Tovoth 45° Rauwend (Azzagrat) 46 Barogind (Azzagrat) 47 Voorz’zt (Azzagrat) 48° Skeiqulac, the Ocean of Tears 49 Shaddonon 52 Vorganund 53 Phage Breeding Grounds 57 Torturous Truth 65 Court of the Spider Queen 66 The Demonweb 67 The Heaving Hills 68 The Swallowed Void 69 Gibbering Hollow 70 Thelee Floe 71 Spirac 73 The Wells of Darkness 77 The Gates of Heaven 79 The Emessu Tunnels 81 Blood Shallows 88 Gaping Maw (Abysm) 89 Shadowsea 90 Screaming jungle (bys) 92 Ulgurshek 100 The Barrens The Mind of Evil CHAPTER 2 eres Pazuzu page 44 Tharzax Zayczestya Phraxas page 50 Sesstinek Volisuputa - MotP 83 ‘The Queen of Chaos Abraxas Kardum Kostchtchie page 64 Lssa'aere Turaglas Dra #376 Graz'zt page 58 Graz'zt page 58 Graz'zt page 58 Rhyxal Urae-Naas page 76 Alvarez Lolth Lolth MotP 81 Verrangoin Ollomegh page 76 Munkir and Nekir Anarazel Demogorgon page 68 Dagon page 70 Demogorgon _page 68 Ulgurshek Oublivae page 72 Sch'thrruppasstt The Abyss ABYSSAL LAYERS CONT. maine 128 137 148 76 Ww 191 m 223 230 245, 248 274 aT 297 303 313 333 340 348 359) 377 400 403 aa 23 452 an 489 493 499. 503 507 519 528 531 548 550 558 566 570 397 600 601 628 651 652 663 ‘Slugbed Outeasts’ End Torrent Hollow’s Heart ‘Writhing Realm Fountain of Screams Shedaklah Offalmound The Dreaming Gulf Scalding Sea The Hidden Layer Durao Belistor The Sighing Cliffs The Sulfanorum Gortion's Grasp Thanatos The Black Blizzard Indifference The Arc of Eternity Plains of Gallenshu Woeful Escarand The Rainless Waste ‘Yeenoghu’s Realm Galun-Khur Abriman-abad ‘Androlynne Noisome Vale The Steeping Isle Carroristo Torremor Occipitus March ofthe Pierced Men Motor Vudra Garavond Forest of Living Tongues Fleshforges Soulfreeze Shendilavri Goranthis ‘The Endless Maze Conflagratum Vallashan Nethuria The Rift of Corrosion Zionyn Pers Lupercio page 78 Azazel Fraz-Urb‘luu Ugudenk page 79 Juiblex/ Zuggtmoy page 77 Eltab Yesillar lynkhab Orcus MotP 82 Eldanoth Lords of Woe Yeenoghu Dra #364 ‘Abrimanes: Pale Night Siragle Lamashtu page 78 ‘Adimarchus Juiblex Shaktari Haagenti page 76 Dwiergus Aseroth page 78 Maleanthet ‘Socothbenoth Baphomet _MotP 81 Dra #369 Alzrius Vucarike Obox-ob page 79