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| Zaphon gave the Party information, and acted as their guide, on their journey to the Red Pit. ([[entry_two|2]],[[entry_three|3]],[[entry_four|4]]) | Zaphon gave the Party information, and acted as their guide, on their journey to the Red Pit. ([[entry_two|2]],[[entry_three|3]],[[entry_four|4]]) | ||
| - | =====Mounth Orthrys===== | + | =====Mount Orthrys===== |
| Located in Orthyrys, the first layer of Carceri. A path of white marble steps, known as the Thousand Marble Steps of the Titans, meanders around the slope of this mountain, leading up to the top, where the tip of the mountain touches the tip of another mountain stretching from a neighboring orb. Where the tops of the mountains touch, a speck of white is visible; the Palace of the Titans. The path is blocked at its base by a large black stone fortress, the home of the Horned Knights. | Located in Orthyrys, the first layer of Carceri. A path of white marble steps, known as the Thousand Marble Steps of the Titans, meanders around the slope of this mountain, leading up to the top, where the tip of the mountain touches the tip of another mountain stretching from a neighboring orb. Where the tops of the mountains touch, a speck of white is visible; the Palace of the Titans. The path is blocked at its base by a large black stone fortress, the home of the Horned Knights. | ||
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| The Horned Knights have their fortress located at the base of Mount Orthrys. Martigan first encountered them when he escaped the Baatezu War Camp he was contracted to serve at with another mercenary, Charlie. The two of them were captured on the way to the Palace of the Titans. (However, Martigan does not remember these events). Martigan has a brand of the Red Knight's emblem on his hand, likely as a result of that event. | The Horned Knights have their fortress located at the base of Mount Orthrys. Martigan first encountered them when he escaped the Baatezu War Camp he was contracted to serve at with another mercenary, Charlie. The two of them were captured on the way to the Palace of the Titans. (However, Martigan does not remember these events). Martigan has a brand of the Red Knight's emblem on his hand, likely as a result of that event. | ||
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| Although the Party attempted to avoid the Knight's Fortress when they were headed to the Palace, Charlie led them into an ambush with the Knights, which they managed to overcome. | Although the Party attempted to avoid the Knight's Fortress when they were headed to the Palace, Charlie led them into an ambush with the Knights, which they managed to overcome. | ||
| Martigan spared Charlie's life in exchange for information on a man in Sigil who could help him escape his contract.([[entry_five|5]],[[entry_six|6]],[[entry_seven|7]]) | Martigan spared Charlie's life in exchange for information on a man in Sigil who could help him escape his contract.([[entry_five|5]],[[entry_six|6]],[[entry_seven|7]]) | ||
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| The Palace is built of cracked and crumbled white marble, cast red in the hellish light of the plane, and consists of a number of buildings and sites, including an amphitheater, a village for the Titans, a farm of grain and livestock, and a small tent city built by and for mortal visitors seeking shelter from the plane or the wisdom of the Titan King. | The Palace is built of cracked and crumbled white marble, cast red in the hellish light of the plane, and consists of a number of buildings and sites, including an amphitheater, a village for the Titans, a farm of grain and livestock, and a small tent city built by and for mortal visitors seeking shelter from the plane or the wisdom of the Titan King. | ||
| - | The tent city exists at the whim of the Titans, who tolerate the lesser beings in their midst only so long as their fickle tempers allow it. One day an angry Titan will take some offense at the assembled beings and vent their frustration, but until then the place stands. The tent city is nominally led by a woman named Althea Damaskaros, who operates a hostel and kitchen for travelers in the largest tent at the center of the sprawl. She claims to be a priestess of the Titans, worshiping Cronos as a god. Rumor has it she was once a priestess of the Greek Powers before some betrayal that drove her into the arms of their exiled enemies. Regardless, her worship pleases and amuses the fickle Titans, and goes a long way towards ensuring the tent city's continued existence. ([[entry_six|6]]) | + | The Party visited the Palace in order to enter a Portal that would lead them to the fourth layer of Carceri. |
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| - | Within the Palace proper, Cronos the Titan King sits on his throne, bound by adamantium chains forged with divine power. Unable to leave his Palace, Cronos sits and broods, swinging between bitter melancholy to blinding rage at a moment's notice. Many come to the Palace to seek his advice, for he is almost as old as all creation itself, and knows many things. But visitors always run the risk of triggering the Titan King's unpredictable rage, and many visitors who came seeking knowledge found only death instead. | ||
| + | ====Althea Damaskaros and the Tent City==== | ||
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| + | The tent city exists at the whim of the Titans, who tolerate the lesser beings in their midst only so long as their fickle tempers allow it. One day an angry Titan will take some offense at the assembled beings and vent their frustration, but until then the place stands. The tent city is nominally led by a woman named Althea Damaskaros, who operates a hostel and kitchen for travelers in the largest tent at the center of the sprawl. She claims to be a priestess of the Titans, worshiping Cronos as a god. Rumor has it she was once a priestess of the Greek Powers before some betrayal that drove her into the arms of their exiled enemies. Regardless, her worship pleases and amuses the fickle Titans, and goes a long way towards ensuring the tent city's continued existence. ([[entry_six|6]],[[entry_seven|7]]) | ||
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| + | ====Cronos==== | ||
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| + | Within the Palace proper, Cronos the Titan King sits on his throne, bound by adamantium chains forged with divine power. Unable to leave his Palace, Cronos sits and broods, swinging between bitter melancholy to blinding rage at a moment's notice. Many come to the Palace to seek his advice, for he is almost as old as all creation itself, and knows many things. But visitors always run the risk of triggering the Titan King's unpredictable rage, and many visitors who came seeking knowledge found only death instead.([[entry_seven|7]]) | ||
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| [[raven_dubois|Lady Raven DuBois]] reportedly has connections to the Red Pit, despite not being a member of the Mercykiller Faction, and uses it as an oubliette for her own enemies. [[cal|Cal's]] father is known to be one such prisoner, and has been rotting away in the Red Pit for several decades. | [[raven_dubois|Lady Raven DuBois]] reportedly has connections to the Red Pit, despite not being a member of the Mercykiller Faction, and uses it as an oubliette for her own enemies. [[cal|Cal's]] father is known to be one such prisoner, and has been rotting away in the Red Pit for several decades. | ||
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| - | Thanks to maps and information provided by Zaphon, it is known that the Red Pit's Warden is a Deathknight named "Crackjaw", who rules the place with an iron fist. Reputed to be a legendary swordsman in life who attracted the attention of Nerull in death, he has thrown his lot in with the Mercykillers out of a desire to punish the wretches of the plane he has grown to despise. | ||
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| - | 30 living guards are garrisoned at the Red Pit, most of them the lazy, undisciplined cast offs of other Mercykiller fortresses who wanted to be rid of them. A chaplain runs a shrine to Hextor, and a retinue of walking dead attend to Warden Crackjaw. | ||
| The prison consists of a fortress atop a rocky spire in the middle of a foul lake, with four watchtowers. A guardhouse at the edge of the lake contains four guards watching a bridge leading to the entrance. The fortress itself contains a staging area, barracks for the guards, the shrine to Hextor, and the Warden's quarters. The prison levels are underground, dug into the rock of the spite. A shaft leads straight down, opening in the void below the layer and down to the orb of Cathrys, the second layer of the plane. | The prison consists of a fortress atop a rocky spire in the middle of a foul lake, with four watchtowers. A guardhouse at the edge of the lake contains four guards watching a bridge leading to the entrance. The fortress itself contains a staging area, barracks for the guards, the shrine to Hextor, and the Warden's quarters. The prison levels are underground, dug into the rock of the spite. A shaft leads straight down, opening in the void below the layer and down to the orb of Cathrys, the second layer of the plane. | ||
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| Another point of interest is the lair of [[Carceri#Sheol]], a juvenile Tartarian Dragon a short distance away from the Red Pit. Rumor has it that Warden Crackjaw once tried to negotiate with Sheol to become allies and work together against the petitioners and criminals of the plane, but the negotiations fell through and the two have been bitter enemies ever since. | Another point of interest is the lair of [[Carceri#Sheol]], a juvenile Tartarian Dragon a short distance away from the Red Pit. Rumor has it that Warden Crackjaw once tried to negotiate with Sheol to become allies and work together against the petitioners and criminals of the plane, but the negotiations fell through and the two have been bitter enemies ever since. | ||
| - | Their enmity proved pivotal in engineering a jailbreak from the Pit, when Sheol was tricked into believing Warden Crackjaw was planning a preemptive attack on her and she opted to attack first instead. The results and aftermath of the battle are unknown, but it's safe to assume the fortress and the garrisoned guards have both suffered from the battle. | + | Their enmity proved pivotal in engineering a jailbreak from the Pit, when Sheol was tricked into believing Warden Crackjaw was planning a preemptive attack on her and she opted to attack first instead. The results and aftermath of the battle are unknown, but it's safe to assume the fortress and the garrisoned guards have both suffered from the battle. ([[entry_two|2]],[[entry_three|3]],[[entry_four|4]]) |
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| + | ====Warden Crackjaw==== | ||
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| + | Thanks to maps and information provided by Zaphon, it is known that the Red Pit's Warden is a Deathknight named "Crackjaw", who rules the place with an iron fist. Reputed to be a legendary swordsman in life who attracted the attention of Nerull in death, he has thrown his lot in with the Mercykillers out of a desire to punish the wretches of the plane he has grown to despise. | ||
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| + | 30 living guards are garrisoned at the Red Pit, most of them the lazy, undisciplined cast offs of other Mercykiller fortresses who wanted to be rid of them. A chaplain runs a shrine to Hextor, and a retinue of walking dead attend to Warden Crackjaw([[entry_three|3]]). | ||
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| The uneasy truce was broken when the Planeswalkers tricked Sheol into attacking the Red Pit as a cover for their jailbreak of [[cal|Cal's]] father. The fate of Sheol, Crackjaw, or the Red Pit itself remains a mystery. ([[entry_three|3]], [[entry_four|4]]) | The uneasy truce was broken when the Planeswalkers tricked Sheol into attacking the Red Pit as a cover for their jailbreak of [[cal|Cal's]] father. The fate of Sheol, Crackjaw, or the Red Pit itself remains a mystery. ([[entry_three|3]], [[entry_four|4]]) | ||
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| + | ======Colothys====== | ||
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| + | Colothys, the fourth layer of Carceri, is a place of preposterous high mountains and deep canyons. Mountains on Colothys soared hundreds of miles high and have slopes that make climbing outright impossible. The mountains support trees, but these don't serve as good handholds for climbers. There are nonetheless some ways to make traveling through Colothys easier. Natural plateaus serve as rest places and artificial rope bridges between canyon walls (hard to use due to the wind on the layer) and the rare ledges, about 1-foot-wide (0.3 meter) carved into the sides of mountains, aid travel and served as trade routes, but are fought over by the inhabitants. | ||
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| + | Petitioners, in Colothys's case, the spirits of liars and cheaters—and giants live on Colothys too. Denizens organize themselves in small villages on the canyon walls. They fight each other over necessities like food and water, the aforementioned ledges, and other supplies, but also out of a simple desire to kill. Denizens are easy to provoke into lethal fights. Legions of demons and daemons make lairs in the canyon walls, as well. | ||
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| + | =====Gallowshome===== | ||
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| + | Gallowshome is built around a portal to Sigil inside a cave. Inside the cave is a five-mile expanse, the floor (half a mile below the entry ledge) covered with titanic bones, and the ceiling hangs with titanic bodies dangling from ropes, their throats all cut. Maggots infest the bodies and drop from them to an unknown destiny; the maggots, which attack any who come near, are the souls of sinners and are supposedly keeping the giants dead. | ||
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| + | The Party travelled to this region from a gate in [[Carceri#the Palace of the Titans]] on [[Carceri#Orthrys]], and had to fight their way down a narrow pathway to the bottom, to the Portal and the Riddling Reaver's Tomb.([[entry_eight|7]],[[entry_eight|8]]) | ||
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| + | ====Tomb of the Riddling Reaver==== | ||
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| + | Located at the bottom of Gallowshome, in the skull of a three-eyed creature. It was said to house an artifact, the Keyring of Olidammara. However, after nagivating it's traps, the Planeswalkers found neither the Keyring nor the Reaver's remains; they did find treasure a note from the Reaver.[[entry_nine|9]] | ||
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