<div class="top-nav"> <a href="/mydndgame/publish/pages/Home">Home</a> <a href="/mydndgame/publish/pages/Character Main Page">Characters</a> <a href="/mydndgame/publish/pages/Factions Index">Factions</a> <a href="/mydndgame/publish/pages/Locations Index">Locations</a> <a href="/mydndgame/publish/pages/World Lore">Lore</a> <a href="/mydndgame/publish/pages/Map">Map</a> </div> Also known as Pazunia, the Plain of a Thousand Portals, and the Plain of Yawning Pits, this layer is a barren wasteland of scorching winds under a relentless red sun. The surface is marked by massive dark pits: portals that plunge into many, but not all, of the deeper layers. The surface of the layer, cut through by the river [[Styx]], connects to both [[Pandemonium]] and [[Hades]] on different edges. Its air space its ruled by the obyrith [[Pazuzu]], Prince of the Lower Aerial Kingdoms. The landscape is marked with scattered iron fortresses claimed as fiefs by other demon lords, such as [[Aldinach]], the [[Lady of Change]], and [[Baltazo]], a retired general of the Blood War, who claim smaller domains on the layer as their own. The layer is home to countless mane petitioners, who are constantly hunted for food or thrust down the pits into the deeper layers, as well as gangs of molydei that hunt demon stragglers. There are also a large number of mortal and outsider merchants and visitors throughout the layer, attracted by the opportunities offered by the layer's countless portals. The largest of these pits is known as the Grand [[Abyss]], which is considered a layer in its own right. Some pits work as two-way portals, but others are only one-way.