Dis
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Dis, the second layer of Hell,
is dominated by the city of the same name.
This massive edifice rises from the low hills
&& stagnant rivers (black
&& poisonous) to several miles in height and hundreds of
miles across.
Several barriers from Avernus lead to the upper levels of this fell
city,
though none lead into the stone &&
lead inner sanctum of Dis himself,
who rules this realm.
Beyond the walls of the Iron City,
the land is flat and barren,
rising some thousands of miles away into low,
rolling hills.
All the lands are capped by a heavily overcast
sky of dull greens lit by flickers of lightning.
<link: WSG, lightning>
An excellent example
of this is Druaga, a lesser Power of the
Babylonian
mythos, who is titled (perhaps self-titled) Ruler of the
Devil World.
Druaga
has a {realm} in The
Second Hell,
far from the hills
that surround Dis's flat plain. Both he and Dispater
are aware of each other and tolerate each
other's presence in
their layer of Hell. Neither interferes
with the workings of the other.
Dispater may provide the devils that Druaga
sends forth, but
the full nature of this relationship is
unrevealed.
Frequency of Devils on Dis (The 2nd Hell)
Ruler = Dispater | Abishai = C | Arch = VVR | Barbed = U | Bearded = R | Bone = 0 | Erinyes = C | Horned = VR |
Ice = 0 | Nupperibo = C | Fiend = VR <alt> | Spined = C | Styx = 0 | Achaierai = C | Barghest = VR | Daemon = VR |
Hell Cat = U | Hell Hound = U | Hoardling = U | Imp = C | Lemure = R | Mephit = C | Nightmare = R | Rakshasa = C |
Stench Kow = C | -> | -> | -> | -> | -> | -> | <> |
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Tiamat | Dispater (Arch-devil) | Geryon (Arch-devil) | Mammon (Arch-devil) | Asmodeus (Arch-devil) |
Belial (Arch-devil) | Mephistopheles (Arch-devil) | Baalzebul (Arch-devil) | Moloch (Arch-devil) | - |
(Notes)
Die Roll | Frequency |
2 | Very rare |
3 | Very rare |
4 | Very rare or rare |
5 | Rare |
6 | Rare |
7 | Uncommon* |
8 | Uncommon* |
9 | Common** |
10 | Common** |
11 | Common** |
12 | Common** |
13 | Common** |
14 | Uncommon* |
15 | Uncommon* |
16 | Rare |
17 | Rare |
18 | Very rare or rare |
19 | Very rare |
20 | Very rare |
* Alternately; choice of two very rare creatures.
** Alternately; choice of two rare creatures.
<Gnarley Bones did an excellent
random encounter table for Dis over at at DF. Be sure to include it!>