Chapter 9: Maladomini, the Domain of Ruined Cities - Chains of Asmodeus

Chapter 9: Maladomini, the Domain of Ruined Cities. The Eye Market looms over the surrounding streets. Once the most beautiful layer in the Nine Hells, Maladomini has since fallen to ruin due to the overzealous actions of its ruler. In an attempt to return his realm to beauty, Baalzebul orders the construction of a new city every few years. When these inevitably don't meet his standard of perfection, he abandons the city and starts anew. The entire layer is now covered in a thick, toxic smog, and sickly black ichor oozes from everything. Hidden behind the smog is a ruby-red sky, blackening the higher it gets. Despite all this, Maladomini remains the only layer with an official school, and many of the intelligent devils call it home. Running This Chapter Before running this chapter read the "Maladomini Overview" section. You can use the information in this section to guide your players through the different attractions this layer has to offer. Encounters During their travels across Maladomini the characters encounter some of the devils that call this place their home. Roll at least once on the Random Encounters in Maladomini table whilst here. 1 1d4 erinyes quietly travel throughout the realm, checking in on construction projects. They're spies from another layer of the Nine Hells, though from which they're unwilling to share. 2 Construction on a new project is being done by thirty lemure, led by a Corruption Devil (Paeliryon) (see appendix B). 3 An amnizu (see Monsters of the Multiverse) researcher is exploring the various ruins nearby, cataloguing what it finds for storage in Grenpoli. 4 Three swarms of ayperobo swarm (see appendix B) wander through Maladomini looking for something to fight. 5 Hidden within a nearby ruin is a small camp of six spined devil runaways. They shirked their construction duties and are hiding from their former masters. 6 A belch of foul smog suddenly drops from the sky, covering one of the characters and expanding out from them. Treat...