GUIDE TO HELL (1999)

Chris Pramas’ Guide to Hell is Zariel’s first named appearance. She is described as the “original
Lord of Avernus.”

Pramas also described the Reckoning: A great war in Hell which started when Zariel
laid siege to Dis. Her allies – Moloch and Belial – simultaneously launched an
assault on Stygia. Mephistopheles eventually broke the siege on Dis, forcing Zariel
back to Avernus. The final battle was to be fought in Maladomini (the seventh layer
of Hell), but Asmodeus pulled a coup: Geryon, Lord of Stygia, had suborned the
generals of the other Lords’ armies. On the day of the ultimate battle, the generals
mutinied, declared their loyalty to Asmodeus, and ended the war. Bizarrely, only
Geryon – the only Lord to remain loyal to Asmodeus – was subsequently ousted from
his position of power.