Deimos

One of the twin realms of Eridan, the first layer of Hades, **Deimos** is a disease-ravaged realm of pestilence and filth, nominally ruled over by Nosos, the Harbinger of Pestilence.

## Inhabitants

Unsurpsing for a realm so rife with disease and given to fetid swamps and humid jungles, the native Daemon most common to **Deimos** is the Hydrodaemon.

Hades is the native home of all four breeds of Nightmare, and Deimos is home to the foul Plagemares.

## Description

Seperated from Phobos by the River Styx, Deimos is one of the twin realms of Eridan, the first layer of Hades.

The corpse-strewn landscape of Deimos is that of festering swamps punctuated by flooded jungles and rivers and lakes of filth and pus. Clean water is nonexistant in Deimos, and all is rife with pollution and waste. Scattered all across this foul and diseased landscape are countless high towers, great walls, deep trenches, and mighty fortresses, the myriad bastions and bulwarks of the Forever War.

An omnipresent low fog hangs over Deimos, leaving everything wet with filth and rusting metal. Thick clouds of miasma arise sporadically, drifting aimlessly about the mists before disapating. These evil clouds are heavy with disease, and can often reduce even the strongest of creatures to withered husks after but an instant of exposure. Upon all of this falls falls a constant filthy rain. This rain is punctuated often by bouts of literal acid rain, or by even thicker rains of pus, bile, excrement, or blood. These thicker rains often carry powerful and highly infectious diseases like those of the evil clouds. Like the rest of Hades, Deimos lacks a sun, moon, or stars, and is instead dimly illuminated by a sickly greenish-yellow light which oozes up from the ground.

### **Dolos**

Just outside the Red Jungle proper lurks the deadly swamp of **Dolos**. A mosquito-infested and treacherous bog, entire armies have been swallowed up by Dolos, where the quicksand can range in depth from two to two-thousand feet. Notably, the swamp also serves as the headwaters of the Acheron within Deimos.

### **Eruthros**

The jungle of **Eruthros**, also known as the **Red Jungle**, stinks of decay so strongly that the stench of rot is palpable for miles beyond the jungle's borders. The blood-red flora of the dense and humid jungle all ooze with acidic secretions so intense that the very air of the jungle is lethally acidic.

### **Kranio**

**Kranio**, also known as the **City of Bones**, is a Daemonic city built entirely from bones. The City of Bones is ruled by Rahovart, a greedy and miserly Algodaemon whos loyalty, and thus that of his city, has currently been *nominally* bought by Gehenna.

### **The Moaning Wall**

**The Moaning Wall**, often simply called the **Wall** by the locals, is an enormous defensive wall stretching for thousands of miles across the filth and stink of Deimos. Fittingly, the Wall is built not of stone, or even metal, but rather simply of plague victims of all races, grown too pus-filled and bloated to even move (but, true to name, not too ill to moan), shackled and piled upon one-another by uncaring Fiends.

### **The River Acheron**

**The River Acheron** flows through Deimos, emerging from the swamp of Dolos and taking here the form of a stinking and slow-moving river of blood-flecked pus around which great clouds of flies forever swarm.

### **Shinar**

An enormous ziggurat, **Shinar** stretches over 8 miles into the sky of Deimos. This tower of the Qliphoth is the domain of King Nimrod and rumors claim it guards Eridan's alleged portal to Ma'adim.

## Magic

### **Disease**

All diseases in Deimos are rendered non-lethal. That is not, of course, to say that creatures are not ravaged by horrific effects, they are, but rather they simply will never die from the direct consequences of a disease. If a creature's ability scores, even all of them, are reduced to 0 by one or more diseases they simply remain alive, in horrible pain, but alive. In the realm of the Harbinger of Pestilence disease wastes, withers, deforms, and corrupts, but seldom kills, and the afflicted simply become more and more grotesque and helpless.

Hopeless mortals infected with incurable diseases sometimes willingly seek out Deimos, hoping to exploit this effect, but quickly come to learn (although rarely before it is too late) that the 'cure' in this case is far worse than the malady itself.

This effect applies only while within Deimos. Should a creature become infected with a disease while in Deimos, and then later leave it, the disease may potentially kill them as per its normal functioning. While in Deimos, however, no disease may genuinely kill a creature; however much they might wish otherwise.

### **Spellcasting**

In Phobos, all spells which fall under the Pestilence domain are cast as though Heightened by +2 levels.