Akat

### Inhabitants

Natives to the Lower Planes (Fiends, Devils, Demons, Yugoloth, Beasts, Dragons, Monstrosities)Erokan (Entrapped)

### Population

Countless, (Possibly 100+ Billion)

Akat is a massively populated city built on the surface of the blood-moon Hadaar that serves as a gateway into the lower planes. The city is home to countless fiends, monsters, undead, beasts and dragons from the lower planes. Alongside creatures from the lower planes, Akat is majorly populated by Akatii and the Nephilim of Akat

The city of Akat is where the term Akatian comes from and is a synecdoche to refer to the latter six gods of The Twelve who are all evil aligned.

## Seven Gates

The city of Akat contains seven major gates to each of the lower planes which is overseen by one of The Twelve gods. These regions are known as Septs and are watched over by a certain god of the Twelve. Inside each of the Septs alongside gates to one of the lower planes, is also a gate to the respective gods demiplane.

### **The Nine Hells of Baator - The Devil Gate -** Velern's Sept

Velern's Sept is south east to the Throne of Light and Dark. His sept is rife with billions of swarming imps peddling their infernal bargains, millions of towering pit fiends plotting to invade the Abyssal Gate and perhaps a billion more succubi and incubi tempting the Akatii inhabitants. The Sept is built from dark red iron that burns like a thousand forges and is dotted with imposing fortresses home to fiends of the hells who have made Akat their home. The Sept has no unusual quality other than the constant smell of brimstone and the wailing screams of the damned that constantly throng the sprawling streets of Velern's Sept.

Velern's fortress is called Castle Godsgrave and is a towering spire of crooked bone. Inside Castle Godsgrave is a vast graveyard of countless headstones. However, on each of the headstones is written only one name repeated to infinity, the name Ouros.

### **Gehenna  - The Sloped Gate -** Aatanen's Sept

Aatanen's Sept is south-south east of the Throne of Light and Dark. Aatanen's Sept is entirely flippled 45 degrees making the ground sloped and the streets mountanous. At the bottom of the slope is The Sloped Gate, a portal into the four fiery planes of Gehenna. This sept is home to beings of fire, devils, yugoloths, magma dragons alongside the usual Akatii inhabitants. A portal to Aatanen's demiplane is housed in his sept, guarded by his most powerful servant The Godbreaker. His fortress is a vast hall carved from a gigantic lunar volcano on the surface of Hadaar that stands at the top of the sloped streets.

Aatanen's fortress is called Castle Cataclysm and is built at the top of the sloped sept, where all streets lead towards. Inside, his Akatii look down from Akat to the planet of Trea itself working towards its total devastation.

### **Hades - The Rust Gate -** Thros' Sept

Thros' sept is directly south of the Throne of Light and Dark. Thros' Sept is completely gray, and devoid of color and emotion. On the gray streets of her sept murders, bounty hunters and assassins roam the streets slaughtering anything and anyone they can, for money, pleasure or simply boredom. Murder is life in Thros' sept and the constant cycle of kill or be killed maintains a lifeless enviroment of heartless killers. Many inhabitants from the other septs come to the Rust Gate to hire some of the best killers, bounty hunters and mercenaries in cosmos. Thros' sept contains the Rust Gate, a portal into the dark, lifeless plane of Hades.

Thros' fortress is called Castle Darkstar built from a misty dark grey brick that smokes with shadowy wisps of nightmarish visages. Castle Darkstar is built on the site of a metoeric impact crater. Castle Darkstar is a frequent subject in the nightmares of mortals on Trea. It is common to find oneself stranded in Akat standing before the huge Castle Darkstar before seeing Thros herself in her winged form swooping down towards the dreamer. Mortals do not know Castle Darkstar is a real location on Akat and believe it to be a figment of their dreams. Whenever someone dreams this dream, from the misty bricks that dreamers visage is added to the smokey faces that rise from the gray castle walls, flickering like a dark dancing flame.

### **Tarterus - The Prison Gate -** Erokan's Sept

Erokan's sept is south-southeast of the Throne of Light and Dark, Erokan's sept is made up of several floating streets that wind upwards in a helical loop growing smaller and smaller towards the home of Erokan, The Screaming Halls. Erokan's sept is home to buildings upon the great spiral suspended in a strange perversion of gravity. Infinitely cruel Akatii jailers and torturers, demodands from Carceri make this sept their home yearned on by the overbearing desire to inflict pain. From sadistic otherwordly mortal travellers to true deities themselves, creatures from all over the lower planes flock here in the billions when they wish to inflict true suffering. In the centre of the rising helix the prison gate stands, a portal into the Tarterian Depths of Carceri where demons, devils, demodands and unfortunate petitioners pour out from to make their enemies pay.

The Screaming Halls, Erokan's fortress and prison is a large perfectly rectangular yellow fortress hundreds of kilometres tall made from pure sulfur. Its walls are totally smooth and unnaturally perfect. Inside, Erokan is trapped for eternity in a contraption of his own making after being tricked by the goddess Meriala. Nobody, man or deity may enter The Screaming Halls as Erokan must suffer in total darkness alone as he screams out in total agony. His screams are so rattling and powerful that his shrieks and cries alter the gravity of the city of Akat whenever they ring out. A deep teeth-splintering groan may deepen the effect of gravity making everyone heavier and stuck to the ground like they were walking in tar. Or a loud howl may unhinge gravities pull altogether sending buildings drifting from their foundations and travellers floating through the air. His groans, cries and howls are so psychically overpowering that anyone attempting to listen to another's thoughts or communicate telepathically will instead be met with the deafening sound of Erokan's suffering, a deeply maddening experience to the majority of creatures of the lower planes.

## The Augur

Both Akat and Odem are ruled by a divine creature known simply as 'The Augur' who is simultaneously a seraph of Ouros and a Nephilim of Velern. Temporally they are separated by an eternity. The Augur who governs Odem was born in the universe's infancy while The Augur who governs Akat was created at the death of the universe. The Augur is the most powerful divine creature that is not a part of The Twelve and should the Augur from Odem and the Augur from Akat ever meet it would be disastrous for the state of reality. It has been divined by Ouros that their meeting would cause total and instantaneous cessation of all existence.

The Augur of Akat and Odem

The Augur is both Ouros' Seraph of Fate and Velern's Nephilim of Fate who oversees the fate of all mortals, monsters and gods. From his throne of Light and Dark, he ponders the destiny of the universe as judge, jury and executioner. As lord of Akat devils demons and dragons alike bend under his yoke as even their destinies are entwined according to his will.

## Inhabitants

From across the lower planes, every instance of evil passes through The Augur's city. The City of Akat is a hub for every agent of evil, however chaotic or lawful, neutral or not, if evil exists it certainly exists in Akat.

Devils from the Nine Hells of Baator peruse the streets of Akat hoping to tempt those of the lower planes and the Akatii and Nephilim into their diabolical bargains. Demons from the Abyss run rampant through the streets tearing at whatever they see. At every possible moment, oceans of blood are shed, mountains of bones are broken and millions of lives are lost from the fighting fiends of the lower planes. Such carnage, which would be massive on the planet of Trea is but a grain of sand in the desert of evil that is the city of Akat and such is the daily occurrences of the City of Blood.