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|name = Shedaklah the Slime Pits | |||
| name | |image = [[File:Shedaklah.jpg|250px]] | ||
| image | |caption = Map of Shedaklah and Environs from ''Fiendish Codex: Hordes of the Abyss'' | ||
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| | |area = 222<sup>nd</sup> layer of [[Abyss]] | ||
|type = Planar layer | |||
|ruler = [[Zuggtmoy]], [[Jubilex]] | |||
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| | |alignment = Chaotic evil | ||
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'''Shedaklah''', also known as the '''Slime Pits''', is a bubbling morass of oozing, fetid sludge situated between two sluggish branches of the [[River Styx]]. Here and there, a low hillock or fungal forest peaks up from the plain of caustic, unintelligent slime. An overcast sky of mud-brown and rotten green clouds casts the layer in pallid gloom. Every few hours, a pregnant cloud bursts, spilling torrential rains of polluted water. A thin film of cloying moisture covers everything on the layer. Strange life forms form, sometimes by the will of the demons who reside here, but sometimes spontaneously. | '''Shedaklah''', also known as the '''Slime Pits''', is a bubbling morass of oozing, fetid sludge situated between two sluggish branches of the [[River Styx]]. Here and there, a low hillock or fungal forest peaks up from the plain of caustic, unintelligent slime. An overcast sky of mud-brown and rotten green clouds casts the layer in pallid gloom. Every few hours, a pregnant cloud bursts, spilling torrential rains of polluted water. A thin film of cloying moisture covers everything on the layer. Strange life forms form, sometimes by the will of the demons who reside here, but sometimes spontaneously. | ||
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Shedaklah is the contested Abyssal domain of the demon lords [[Zuggtmoy]], Queen of Fungi, and [[Juiblex]], the Faceless One. | Shedaklah is the contested Abyssal domain of the demon lords [[Zuggtmoy]], Queen of Fungi, and [[Juiblex]], the Faceless One. | ||
All manner ot plant and fungal creatures dwell upon the surface of Shedaklah, paying honor to Zuggtmoy by means of the parasitic processes that keep them alive. Phantom fungi, | All manner ot plant and fungal creatures dwell upon the surface of Shedaklah, paying honor to Zuggtmoy by means of the parasitic processes that keep them alive. Phantom fungi, [[myconid]]s, [[shambling mound]]s, [[tendriculos]]es, and giant sundews—many [[fiend]]ish or [[fiend|half-fiendish]]—abound on the layer, reveling in its unnaturally warm dampness. These faithful servants of the Fungi Queen seek out and destroy the few alien beings of organic ooze that emerge from rhe lightless depths of the layer, but in the deeper caves the slime creatures of Juiblex are so numerous that one must swim through them to make progress. | ||
The listless souls of victims claimed by Zuggtmoy's cults on the Material | The listless souls of victims claimed by Zuggtmoy's cults on the [[Material Plane]] wander the surface of Shedaklah, numbly seeking shelter and hopelessly fishing for food that is too infested to eat. When these constantly starving, endlessly suffering playthings grow too sparse, the demon queen turns her attention once more to the mortal realm in an effort to increase the power and influence of her cult, bringing more and more lost souls to Shedaklah. | ||
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Shedaklah, also known as the Slime Pits, is a bubbling morass of oozing, fetid sludge situated between two sluggish branches of the River Styx. Here and there, a low hillock or fungal forest peaks up from the plain of caustic, unintelligent slime. An overcast sky of mud-brown and rotten green clouds casts the layer in pallid gloom. Every few hours, a pregnant cloud bursts, spilling torrential rains of polluted water. A thin film of cloying moisture covers everything on the layer. Strange life forms form, sometimes by the will of the demons who reside here, but sometimes spontaneously.
Shedaklah is the contested Abyssal domain of the demon lords Zuggtmoy, Queen of Fungi, and Juiblex, the Faceless One.
All manner ot plant and fungal creatures dwell upon the surface of Shedaklah, paying honor to Zuggtmoy by means of the parasitic processes that keep them alive. Phantom fungi, myconids, shambling mounds, tendriculoses, and giant sundews—many fiendish or half-fiendish—abound on the layer, reveling in its unnaturally warm dampness. These faithful servants of the Fungi Queen seek out and destroy the few alien beings of organic ooze that emerge from rhe lightless depths of the layer, but in the deeper caves the slime creatures of Juiblex are so numerous that one must swim through them to make progress.
The listless souls of victims claimed by Zuggtmoy's cults on the Material Plane wander the surface of Shedaklah, numbly seeking shelter and hopelessly fishing for food that is too infested to eat. When these constantly starving, endlessly suffering playthings grow too sparse, the demon queen turns her attention once more to the mortal realm in an effort to increase the power and influence of her cult, bringing more and more lost souls to Shedaklah.
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