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+---
+title: The Transcendental Planes
+description: A brief description of a few of the transcendental planes (heavens and hells).
+date_pub: 2023-02-19T17:39:00-05:00
+section: planes
+subsection: transcendental
+content_type: feature
+short_code: pt1
+---
+
+The Transcendental Planes are the planes of the various afterlives - all of the heavens, hells, purgatories, limbos, and eternal drinking halls that the gods create for their devotees (or for those that lose faith). Typically ruled by one or more gods (or their equivalents).
+
+### Drahkenos
+
+_The Plane of Dragons_
+
+-   Home to the dragon gods:
+    -   **Endrion** - The Platinum Lord of Virtue, Paragon of Justice, Protector of the Weak, Peacebringer, and God of Law;
+    -   **Lyndralyth** - The Multichromatic Lady of Doom, Ruiner-of-All, Devourer of Nations, Peacebreaker, and Goddss of Chaos; and
+    -   **Ymmyrr** - The Everlasting, Diamond Master of the Scales, Keeper of the Balance, Slumbering Monarch of Eternity.
+-   Home plane of the Drahki Federation.
+
+### Infernus
+
+_The Plane of Unwanted Dead_
+
+-   The place where the souls that aren't claimed by other gods wind up.
+-   Ruled by the Authority, a bureaucracy of corrupted paladins, clerics, and devils.
+    -   Headed by the fallen angel, Shai'kel, the Corrupted.
+
+<!--
+### The Dreamlands
+- See https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Dreaming
+
+### The Faewylde
+
+_The Plane of the Faerie Folk_
+
+
+- See https://supernatural-beings.fandom.com/wiki/Fae
+
+
+-->

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+---
+title: Infernus
+description: A brief description of Infernus, the plane of Unwanted Dead.
+date_pub: 2023-02-19T17:17:00-05:00
+section: planes
+subsection: transcendental
+content_type: feature
+short_code: pi1
+---
+
+### Infernus
+
+_The Plane of Unwanted Dead_
+
+Appears as an enormous underground cavern with walls that can never be reached.
+
+#### Locations
+
+**The Ashen Wastes** - A huge island in the center of cavern with gray shores.
+
+**The Lake of Fire** - An endless inferno which completely surrounds the island.
+
+**The Great Pit** - A massive hole in the center of the Ashen Wastes that leads down thousands of feet to a portal to the Abyss.
+
+-   This is where most demons spontaneously appear, despite the difficulty involved in escaping from the Abyss.
+-   The "circles" are the areas around the pit where devils torture doomed souls (and which get more severe as one continues downwards).
+
+**The Cathedral** - A huge, ornate stone church which rests on a great stone that floats over the pit, held in place by the Chains of Tah'rus.
+
+### Factions
+
+**The Authority** - The bureaucracy that runs Infernus, mostly consisting of fallen angels, corrupted high paladins, and the devils who've sworn to serve them.
+
+-   The Authority is also responsible to see that sinners get the torture they "deserve".
+
+**Devils** - Demons who swear an oath to serve the Authority and/or Infernus itself.
+
+-   Most devils lose ability to shape-change, taking on Shai'kel's preferred form (ex: bone devil for guard)
+
+### NPCs
+
+**Shai'kel, the Corrupted** - Fallen angel who rules Infernus, and head of the Authority.
+
+#### The War in Infernus
+
+-   For eons, Infernus had been ruled by the demon lords under the command of Urkyss the Unkempt, the Demon Emporer.
+    -   The demons would kill their enemies and collect their souls, preventing them from going to thier promised afterlives.
+    -   Demons only ever answered to other demons.
+-   Then, about ten thousand of years ago, one of the Lawful gods, Etarr the Righteous, created a powerful angel named Shai'kel and sent them to Infernus along with an army of clerics, paladins, and priests, all with a single purpose: to close the portal to the Abyss at the bottom of the Pit.
+    -   The battle didn't go well for the forces of law, with the demon lords crushing the mortal armies.
+    -   Shai'kel, in an act of desperation, flew into the pit and crossed the portal into the abyss itself, intent on destroying the portal from the other side.
+    -   Instead, they were corrupted - their mind twisted by the chaos, they escaped the pit and returned to Infernus with new purpose.
+    -   They rallied the "forgotten" followers of the various gods and goddesses of law and overthrew the demon lords, installing the Authority in their place.
+    -   The incident became known as the "Damned Incursion".