The Windswept Depths of Pandemonium

Material produced below is from the "Manual of the Planes"

It is a place of howling, screaming winds.

It is an underground realm of stygian darkness.

It is where sanity is besieged by unending madness.

Pandemonium is a great mass of matter, pierced by innumerable tunnels carbed by the howling winds of that plane. It is windy, noisy, and dark, having no natural sources of light. The wind quickly extinguishes normal fires, and lights that last longer draw attention of wights driven insane by the constant howling wind.

Every word, scream, or shout is caught by the wind and flung through all the layers of the plane. Conversation is accomplished by shouting, and even the words are spirited away by the wind beyond ten feet.

The stale wind of Pandemonium is cold, and it steals the heat from travelers unprotected from its endless gale that buffets each inhabitant, blowing sand and dirt into eyes, snuffing torches and carrying away loose items. In some places, the wind can howl so fiercely that it lifts creatures off their feet and carries them for miles before dashing their forms to lifeless pulp against some dark, unseen cliff face.

In a few relatively sheltered places, the wind dies down to just a breeze, carrying haunting echos from distant parts of the plane, though they are so distorted that they sound like cries of torment.

--Posted 28 Jan 04 by OrchestralDarkness

Intended Sites

First Layer (Pandesmos)
Madhouse
Fury's Heart (Winter's Hall & Towers of Ruin)

Second Layer (Cocytus)
Hunting areas

Third Layers (Phlegethon)
Hunting areas
Windglum
Shattered Castle

--Posted 28 Jan 04 by OrchestralDarkness