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THE NINE HELLS OF BAATOR

The union of law and evil, Baator is home to the baatezu, a race of devils locked in an endless Blood War with the tanar’ri.

Baator resembles an inverted mountain, with the first layer of Avernus at the top. A planewalker descends through the layers on her way to Nessus, the last and deepest of the nine.

The Blood War effort is governed by the Dark Eight, a cabal of ancient and crafty pit fiends. Baator itself is ruled by the Lords of the Nine, devils of great power and mystery. Few have learned their names, for such knowledge is dangerous.

Our heroes have visited two of its layers, Avernus and Dis. A one-way teleporter brought our heroes from Toril to the First Pit. A portal found there led them to Sigil’s Great Bazaar, using a brick from the Great Avernus Road as a key. Another portal at Lady Margone’s summer house on the Elemental Plane of Air malfunctioned, sending our heroes to Dis instead of the Cage.

SOURCES
Faces of Evil: The Fiends, Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells, Hellbound: The Blood War box set, Manual of the Planes, Planes of Law box set, Dragon #75 “The Nine Hells Part I,” #76 “The Nine Hells Part II,” #91 “The Nine Hells Revisited”

NOTE: The identities of the Lords of the Nine are obfuscated in the Planescape source material, and very dark to those who don’t worship them. Some are the same Lords you’ll find mentioned in Fiendish Codex II and even the 4th Edition Monster Manual, but some are not.