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| | '''The Abyss''', or more fully, the Infinite Layers of the Abyss, is a chaotic evil-aligned plane of existence. |
| |image= [[File:Abyss01.jpg]]
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| |caption= The Abyss, as depicted in the ''Manual of the Planes'' (2001).
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| |name=Infinite Layers of the Abyss
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| |type=Outer
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| |layers=Infinite
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| |alignment=Chaotic Evil
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| |native inhabitants=[[Demon]]s, bodaks, chole dragons, eyewings, fetches, fireshadows, gremlins, galltrits, mara, vargouilles, [[varrangoin]]
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| |greyhawk powers=[[Diinkarazan]], [[Vaprak]], [[Merrshaulk]], [[Ramenos]], [[Laogzed]], [[Urdlen]], [[Kanchelsis]], [[Grankhul]], [[Skiggaret]], [[Eshebala]], [[Great Mother]], [[King of Ghouls]], [[Demon lord]]s
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| The '''Abyss''' or more fully, the '''Infinite Layers of the Abyss''', is a chaotic evil-aligned plane of existence. It exists as one of a number of alignment-based [[Outer Plane]]s that form part of the standard ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') cosmology. | |
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| ==Description==
| | The main race that inhabits the Abyss are the demons, chaotic evil beings. There are four kinds of demon: the classical, religion-inspired demons of evil and sin the Tanar'ri; the ancient, Lovecraftian Obyriths; the recently appeared Loumaras; and the other demons, which are simply demons that are not specified as belonging to any of the other three categories. Each of these categories contains numerous different species of demon. Of the four categories, the Tanar'ri are the most numerous and most influential and the true rulers of the plane. |
| The description of the Abyss varies some between different editions, campaign settings and even individual accessories. This can be viewed as canonical status of the plane of the Abyss changing, or as an in-character explanation that the conflicting information is the result of misinformation spread by the demons themselves, and of misunderstandings by those who study them. | |
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| One description of the Abyss presents it as a region of intense, extreme, and unforgiving climates, with layers consisting of overwhelmingly fierce desert sandstorms, explosively unstable volcanic activity, boiling lava, and molten rock, blinding, sub-zero Arctic glaciers, bottomless oceans filled with enormous leviathans, heaving mountains of flesh, nauseatingly putrid environments saturated with disease-causing fungi, and the endless, existential void of infinite space.
| | The petitioners (souls of the dead who have been sent to the layer for the afterlife) of the Abyss are called manes, and they are the lowest caste of the Tanar'ri. They have pale white skin, sharp teeth and claws, and maggots are reported to crawl through their flesh. Manes that survive for many years may be promoted to greater forms of demon. Extremely clever, lucky ones that survive for millennia may even eventually become Demon Lords. The Demon Lord Orcus is one such demon lord who began as a mane. |
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| The ''Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss'' sourcebook suggests the possibility that the Abyss is actually alive, and that it spawns demons out of its urge to spread chaos and destruction. | | The Demon Lords, also known as demon princes, are extremely powerful demons, mostly of the Tanar'ri category though a few Obyrith lords exist as well, who through sheer power and influence have come to rule over one of the layers of the Abyss. They are near god-like in power, each have unique forms, many have cult-followings upon the material plane, and they command scores of lesser demons. Known demon lords include Orcus, as well as Demogorgon, Graz'zt, Fraz-Urb'luu, Baphomet, Yeenoghu, Juiblex, Malcanthet, Pazuzu, Kostchtchie, Dagon, Pale Night, Obox-ob, Zuggtmoy, Sess'Innek, and numerous others. |
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| ==Inhabitants==
| | Chaotic evil deities also inhabit the Abyss, including Vaprak, the god of ogres and trolls; Lolth, the demon queen of spiders and drow; and Great Mother, the goddess of beholders. These deities could also be considered demon lords however. The term "Demon Lord" is really more of a title than a category of beings, and deities such as those mentioned meet the criteria for bearing such a title of ruling over one of the Abyss' layers. Many of the formerly mentioned demon lords themselves have god-like traits; they sway the worship of entire races, have cult-followings, and sometimes even have portfolios attributed to them. Therefore, they might be gods. The exact distinction between "demon lord" and "deity" is rather unclear. |
| The Abyss is the home of one of the principal combatants in the blood war, the [[tanar'ri]], a class of [[demon]] that rule the plane. Various other chaotic evil creatures and deities inhabit the plane, including undead and even some renegade celestials.
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| The petitioners of the Abyss are called ''manes''. They have pale white skin, sharp teeth and claws, and maggots are reported to crawl through their flesh. Manes that survive for many years may be promoted to lesser forms of demon.
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| The [[demon lord]]s inhabit the Abyss, including [[Demogorgon]], [[Graz'zt]], [[Lolth]], and [[Pazuzu]]. Many evil deities make their home here including [[Vaprak]], the [[Great Mother]] and [[Diinkarazan]], a mad, imprisoned deity of the [[derro]].
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| ==Structure==
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| Like other outer planes, the Abyss is spatially infinite and supposedly consists of an infinite number of layers, or sub-planes.
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| The first layer shares its borders with the neighboring planes of the [[Pandemonium|Windswept Depths of Pandemonium]], the [[Outlands]], and the [[Carceri|Tarterian Depths of Carceri]]; travel is possible between the Abyss and these planes at certain locations. The portal to the Outlands gate-town of ''Plague-Mort'' is found beneath the town of ''Broken Reach'' in the Abyss. Most other portals to neighboring planes take the form of dark pits in the ground, indistinguishable from those pits that lead to lower layers of the plane.
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| ''The [[River Styx]]'' flows through the Abyss to many other [[lower planes]], and as such can be used to gain access to those planes. In the Abyss, it is known to flow through the layers of Pazunia, Wormblood, the Blood Shallows, the Sighing Cliffs, Thanatos, the White Kingdom, Shedaklah, Shendilavri, Goranthis, Durao, and Gaping Maw, among others.
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| A gate to the Abyss exists in the dungeons beneath [[Onyxgate]] in [[Nyrond]].
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| ==Layers==
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| The Abyss is said to consist of an infinite amount of layers, though the total number of layers is also quoted as 666. Layers are numbered based upon order of discovery by various personalities in the background details of the game, as documented by the Fraternity of Order faction of the Planescape setting. Discrepancies in layer numbers between supplements and sources can be explained as catalogs that have been compiled by different sources.
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| It is impossible to know with any certainty whether layers are actually arranged in this precise order, in contrast to the known ordering of layers within all the other planes of the D&D cosmology. A useful metaphor is a deck of playing cards shuffled and then tossed down so they are piled together loosely, randomly, and sometimes not at all.
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| A list of layers named so far in D&D supplements includes:
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| *1 - '''[[Pazunia]]''' (also known as ''The Plain of Infinite Portals'' or ''The Palace of 1001 Closets'') has been described as an infinite plane with only three types of distinct features:
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| **The river [[Styx]] flowing through it (as it does through the top layers of other evil planes).
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| **Large sinkholes which connect to other layers of the Abyss, some were drilled intentionally by ancient demons during the Abyss' original exploration. The largest of these holes is the Grand Abyss.
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| **Iron Fortresses which guard the physical bodies of Demon Princes when they leave the Abyss to travel astrally.
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| *2 - '''Driller's Hives''', realm of Tharzax the Chattering Prince.
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| *3 - '''The Forgotten Land''', realm of Zzyczesiya the Ungrasped.
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| *4 - '''The Grand Abyss''', a bottomless, nigh-infinite canyon that contains portals to virtually every other layer in the Abyss.
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| *5 - '''Wormblood'''
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| *6 - '''Realm of a Million Eyes''', home to the [[Great Mother]], creator goddess of the beholders.
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| *7 - '''Phantom Plane''', realm of the demon lord of the lizard kings, [[Sess'Innek]].
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| *8 – '''The Skin-shedder''', realm of Volisupula the Flensed Marquesse.
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| *9 - '''Burningwater'''
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| *10 - '''"That Hellhole"'''
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| *11 - '''Molrat'''
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| *12 - '''Twelvetrees'''
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| *13 - '''Blood Tor''', realm of the goddesses [[Beshaba]] and [[Umberlee]] from the Forgotten Realms setting. (2nd edition AD&D)
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| *14 - '''The Steaming Fen''', realm of the [[Queen of Chaos]].
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| *17 - '''Death's Reward''', realm of [[Abraxas|Abraxas the Unfathomable]].
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| *21 - '''The Sixth Pyre''', realm of [[Kardum|Kardum, Lord of Balors]].
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| *23 - '''Iron Wastes''', home to [[Kostchtchie]], Prince of Wrath.
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| *27 - '''Malignebula''', realm of the Abyssal lord [[Lissa'aere]] the Noxious.
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| *32 - '''Sholo-Tovoth: The Fields of Consumption''', realm of Turaglas the Ebon Maw.
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| *45 - '''Rauwend''' is the first of the three layers that make up [[Graz'zt]]'s triple realm, which is collectively called '''Azzagrat'''. Other sources list these as layers 42 to 44. In First Edition AD&D, Graz'zt's layer is an infinite palace which filled his entire layer.
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| *46 - '''Shadowsky''' is the second of Graz'zt's three layers.
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| *47 - '''Vhoorzzt''' is the third layer of Azzagrat. Like Rauwend and Shadowsky, it is controlled by Graz'zt.
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| *48 - '''Nerebdian Vast''', desert realm bordering both Azzagrat and Shaddonon. (''Dragon'' #360) Called '''Skeiqulac''', the Ocean of Tears, in ''Demonomicon'' (2010).
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| *49 - '''Shaddonon''', realm of the demon lord [[Rhyxali]], Princess of Shadow.
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| *52 - '''Vorganund'''
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| *53 - '''Phage Breeding Grounds'''
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| *57 - '''Torturous Truth''', realm of the Abyssal lord [[Alvarez]] the Purging Duke.
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| *65 - '''Court of the Spider Queen''', Lolth's realm.
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| *66 - '''[[Demonweb Pits|The Demonweb Pits]]''', home of [[Lolth]], queen of spiders and principal deity of evil drow, particularly in the [[Vault of the Drow]]. In the first edition ''Manual of the Planes'', Lolth's Web is located on the 65th layer, from there access is possible to the 66th layer, where her realm and spider-ship is located.
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| *67 - '''The Heaving Hills''' (Hezrou realm)
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| *68 - '''The Swallowed Void'''
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| *69 - '''The Crushing Plain''' (also called Gibbering Hollow, Ollomegh's realm).
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| *70 - '''The Ice Floe'''
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| *71 - '''Spirac''', hunting grounds of the demon lords.
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| *72 – '''Darklight''', realm of [[Nocticula]] the Undeniable.
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| *73 - '''The Wells of Darkness''', which has served as the prison of several demon lords such as [[Shami-Amourae]], [[Ansitif]], and [[Ebulon]].
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| *74 - '''Smargard''', home to [[Merrshaulk]] the [[yuan-ti]] deity and [[Ramenos]] the [[bullywug]] deity. Also contains The Viper Pit ([[Sseth]]'s realm; ''Powers & Pantheons''), and the Silent Temple (''Planar Handbook'').
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| *77 - '''The Gates of Heaven''', realm of [[Munkir]] and [[Nekir]].
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| *79 - '''The Emessu Tunnels''', realm of [[Anarazel]] the Daring Darkness.
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| *81 - '''The Blood Shallows''', contested realm.
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| *88 - '''The Gaping Maw''' (or '''Brine Flats''' or '''Abysm'''), home to [[Demogorgon]], [[Prince of Demons]], one of the highest-ranking demons in the abyss.
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| *89 - '''Shadowsea''', oceanic realm of the demon lord [[Dagon]], Prince of the Depths.
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| *90 - '''The Guttering Cove''', realm of Ilsidahur the Howling King.
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| *92 - '''[[Draeden|Ulgurshek]]'''
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| *99 - Unnamed contested layer consisting of several distinctive realms (from first edition ''AD&D'' module ''Tales of the Outer Planes''); one is where demons are spawned, another is a lightning realm, in another can be found portals leading to Juiblex and Kali's layers.
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| *100 - '''The Barrens''' (Oublivae's realm).
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| *111 - '''The Mind of Evil''', realm of Sch’theraqpasstt the Serpent Reborn.
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| *113- '''Thanatos''', the realm of [[Orcus]], Demon Prince of the Undead. Some sources quote this as layer #333 or #133.
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| *128 - '''Slugbed''', realm of the Abyssal lord [[Lupercio]] the Baron of Sloth.
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| *137 - '''Outcasts' End''', realm of [[Azazel]], Prince of Scapegoats.
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| *142 - '''Lifebane''', realm of the god Chemosh from the Dragonlance setting. (2nd edition AD&D)
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| *148 - '''Torrent'''
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| *176 - '''Hollow's Heart''', realm of the demon lord [[Fraz-Urb'luu]], which, due to his magical illusions, appears to be flat, colorless, and featureless to the human eye.
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| *177 - '''The Writhing Realm''', realm of Ugudenk the Squirming King.
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| *181 - '''The Rotting Plain''', realm of the troglodyte god [[Laogzed]].
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| *191 - '''Fountain of Screams'''
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| *193 - '''Vulgarea''', realm of the foxwoman goddess [[Eshebala]].
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| *222 - '''Shedaklah''' (aka '''The Slime Pits'''), home to [[Juiblex]] Demon Prince of Slimes, and [[Zuggtmoy]], Demon Queen of Fungi.
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| *223 - '''Offalmound''', former realm of the dead god Moander from the Forgotten Realms setting. (2nd edition AD&D)
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| *230 - '''The Dreaming Gulf''', a windy realm home to the dreams of dead gods.
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| *241 - '''Palpitatia''', realm of the bugbear gods [[Grankhul]] and [[Skiggaret]].
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| *245 - '''The Scalding Sea'''
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| *248 - '''The Hidden Layer''', realm of Eltab.
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| *274 - '''Durao''' (gateway layer), mustering ground for the armies of the Abyss as they prepare for battle in the [[Blood War]].
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| *277 - '''Belistor''', Yrsillar's realm.
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| *297 - '''The Sighing Cliffs''', realm of the Demon Lady [[Lynkhab]].
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| *300 - '''Feng-Tu''', realm of the Chinese gods Tou Mu and Lu Yueh.
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| *303 - '''The Sulfanorum'''
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| *313 – '''Gorrison's Grasp''', site of Illssender's Tower
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| *333 - '''The Broken Scale''', realm of the god Hiddukel from the Dragonlance setting. (2nd edition AD&D)
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| *340 - '''The Black Blizzard'''
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| *348 - '''Fortress of Indifference''', ruled by [[Tapheon]], the [[nalfeshnee]]; former realm of the demon lord [[Thralhavoc]].
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| *357 - '''The Arc of Eternity''', realm of Eldanoth the Bloodless Scion.
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| *377 - '''Plains of Gallenshu'''
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| *399 - '''The Worm Realm''', realm of the [[gnome]] god [[Urdlen]].
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| *400 - '''Woeful Escarand''' (Nalfeshnee Realm), a court at which newly arrived larvae and sometimes other demons are judged
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| *403 - '''The Rainless Waste''', site of Mal Arundak, the City of Confusion (Fallen archon realm)
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| *421 - '''White Kingdom''', ruled by the [[King of Ghouls]], once a vassal to [[Orcus]], vassaled to [[Yeenoghu]], briefly a free agent, and now vassaled to Yeenoghu again.
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| *422 - '''The Seeping Woods''', ruled by [[Yeenoghu]], Demon Prince of [[Gnolls]]. Called "Yeenoghu's Realm" in ''Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss''.
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| *423 - '''Galun-Khur'''(home of the [[abyssal eviscerator]]s)
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| *444 - Morass of the [[adaru]]s
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| *452 - '''Ahriman-abad''', realm of [[Ahrimanes]], Chief of the Cacodaemons.
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| *471 - '''Androlynne''', realm of [[Pale Night]].
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| *487 - '''Lair of the Beast''' and '''Mansion of the Rake''', realm of the [[vampire]] god [[Kanchelsis]].
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| *489 - '''Noisome Vale''', ruled by the [[balor]] [[Tarnhem]].
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| *493 - '''The Steeping Isle''', realm of Siragle the Ineffable.
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| *499 – '''Carroristo'''
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| *503 - '''Torremor''', realm of the demon lord [[Pazuzu]].
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| *507 - '''Occipitus''', former realm of [[Adimarchus]], the demon prince of madness.
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| *518 - '''Melantholep''' possible name of the nesting grounds of the chole dragons, or perhaps an unknown demon prince who rules the layer.
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| *519 - '''March of the Pierced Men'''.
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| *524 - '''Shatterstone''', realm of the ogre god [[Vaprak]].
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| *528 - '''Molor, the Stinking Realm''' is a layer under the control of Juiblex. It includes the town of Thullgrime and a bottomless cavern known as the Maw of Eternity. It's described in the 4th edition supplement ''The Plane Below''.
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| *531 - '''Vudra''', realm of the giant [[marilith]] Shaktari, the Queen of Poison.
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| *548 - '''Garavond''', [[Haagenti]]'s realm.
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| *550 - '''Forest of Living Tongues'''.
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| *558 - '''Fleshforges''', realm of Dwiergus the Chrysalis Prince.
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| *566 - '''Soulfreeze''', realm of Aseroth the Winter Warlock.
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| *570 - '''Shendilavri''', realm of the demon lady [[Malcanthet]], Queen of the Succubi.
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| *586 - '''Prison of the Mad God''', realm of the derro god [[Diinkarazan]].
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| *597 - '''Goranthis''', realm of Socothbenoth the Persuader.
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| *600 - '''Endless Maze''', the realm of [[Baphomet]], Prince of Beasts. The demoness [[Pale Night]] resides here as well.
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| *601 - '''Conflagratum''', realm of the Abyssal lord [[Alzrius]], Lord of Infernal Light.
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| *628 - '''Vallashan''', a layer designed to allow temporary victory to conquering armies of good alignment, only to then corrupt the conquerors and turn them against themselves
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| *643 - '''Caverns of the Skull''', realm of the Black Earth Mother Kali, the goddess of destruction. In First Edition AD&D, Kali's layer was #500 and was a jungle of blood-red vegetation bordering a sea of blood.
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| *651 - '''Nethuria''', realm of Vucarik, Consort of Chains.
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| *652 - '''The Rift of Corrosion'''
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| *663 - '''Zionyn''', realm of the demon lord [[Obox-ob]], Prince of Vermin.
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| *665 - Unnamed. A bottomless black void where victims fall until the winds flay the flesh from their bones. (''Blood Hostages'')
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| *'''Demonwing''' is an Abyssal layer that has been changed by Demogorgon into a plane-crossing, flying ship. It features in the adventure ''A Paladin in Hell'' by [[Monte Cook]].
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| *'''The Plains of Rust''' is another unnumbered layer, once the site of a [[devil|diabolic]] colony before Orcus and Juiblex caused all iron on the layer to crumble. It's described in ''The Plane Below''.
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| *'''The Spires of Rajzak''' is a layer of canyons inhabited by demonic hordes and a maddened, indescribable demon lord known as [[Rajzak]], also from ''The Plane Below''.
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| ==Creative origins==
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| The name of the Abyss was based on the Abyss of Milton.
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| ==See also==
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| *[[:Category:Abyssal layers]]
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| *[[:Category:Characters of the Abyss]]
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| *[[Demon lord]]
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| ==External Link==
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| *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyss_%28plane%29 The Abyss at Wikipedia].
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The Abyss, or more fully, the Infinite Layers of the Abyss, is a chaotic evil-aligned plane of existence.
The main race that inhabits the Abyss are the demons, chaotic evil beings. There are four kinds of demon: the classical, religion-inspired demons of evil and sin the Tanar'ri; the ancient, Lovecraftian Obyriths; the recently appeared Loumaras; and the other demons, which are simply demons that are not specified as belonging to any of the other three categories. Each of these categories contains numerous different species of demon. Of the four categories, the Tanar'ri are the most numerous and most influential and the true rulers of the plane.
The petitioners (souls of the dead who have been sent to the layer for the afterlife) of the Abyss are called manes, and they are the lowest caste of the Tanar'ri. They have pale white skin, sharp teeth and claws, and maggots are reported to crawl through their flesh. Manes that survive for many years may be promoted to greater forms of demon. Extremely clever, lucky ones that survive for millennia may even eventually become Demon Lords. The Demon Lord Orcus is one such demon lord who began as a mane.
The Demon Lords, also known as demon princes, are extremely powerful demons, mostly of the Tanar'ri category though a few Obyrith lords exist as well, who through sheer power and influence have come to rule over one of the layers of the Abyss. They are near god-like in power, each have unique forms, many have cult-followings upon the material plane, and they command scores of lesser demons. Known demon lords include Orcus, as well as Demogorgon, Graz'zt, Fraz-Urb'luu, Baphomet, Yeenoghu, Juiblex, Malcanthet, Pazuzu, Kostchtchie, Dagon, Pale Night, Obox-ob, Zuggtmoy, Sess'Innek, and numerous others.
Chaotic evil deities also inhabit the Abyss, including Vaprak, the god of ogres and trolls; Lolth, the demon queen of spiders and drow; and Great Mother, the goddess of beholders. These deities could also be considered demon lords however. The term "Demon Lord" is really more of a title than a category of beings, and deities such as those mentioned meet the criteria for bearing such a title of ruling over one of the Abyss' layers. Many of the formerly mentioned demon lords themselves have god-like traits; they sway the worship of entire races, have cult-followings, and sometimes even have portfolios attributed to them. Therefore, they might be gods. The exact distinction between "demon lord" and "deity" is rather unclear.