The Lower Planes, The Pits, the Infernal Realms, Hell. This is a place of chaos; of fire and blood and ice and terrible, twisted geometries that obey none of nature's laws. The Lower Planes are home to the Fallen, former Angels of the Higher Planes that were defeated in a great rebellion countless aeons ago and exiled here. Whilst they are of the same race as the Angels, their long imprisonment in the Lower Planes has twisted their minds and bodies into the terrible creatures known as Demons.
Demons are far more varied than their Angelic cousins, some look like reptilian humanoids, others have fur and cloven hooves and eyes of fire and tusks of black ice harder than diamond and still others appear pleasingly to the eye, beautiful creatures, but whose countenance becomes a perverse mockery of the human form if it is angered.
The highest of the Lower Planes, and therefore the one closest to the Middle Plane, is known as Pandemonium and it is a vast city-fortress ruled over by the Gatekeepr, Leviathan/Charybdis. Pandemonium is the region of the Lower Planes that is most similar to the classical depictions of Hell. The capital of the Lower Planes is Dis, and is located near the lowest reaches of the Lower Planes, standing on the edge of the Abyss itself.
Just as there are the Seven Archangels in the Higher Planes, so too are there the Seven Princes of the Lower Planes, where the Archangels supposedly represent order and virtue, the Princes represent chaos and vice. These seven entities are amongst the darkest and most twisted of Demonkind and the most powerful, each ruler over a certain tract of territory.
The Seven Infernal Princes
Abaddon the Destroyer
Demonic Lord of War, Rage and Strife, Abbadon the Destroyer is a being of immense size and ferocity encased in armour of a black metal unknown to Man that is as cold as ice, armour that sucks away all light and hope. Abbadon has a notoriously short temper and his rages are legendary, he is lord over all of the demons of wrath and violence and in war it is to him and these creatures that the first attacks always fall; berserkers to spread destruction and terror amongst the enemy. Abaddon was probably a Power or Principality before the Rebellion, his also known by the Greek name Apollyon.
Astaroth the Deceiver
Lord of Deceit and Lies, Astaroth is famed amongst Hell's Legions for his fair guise and sweet words, with which he enters the counsel of great lords and kings and sways them towards his own ends; sins, wars and terrible crimes and abuses of power. Though his influence on the world, like those of all the other Demon Lords, was lessened by the raising of The Veil so that he cannot go personally upon the earth to sow discord, Astaroth remains a deadly and treacherous creature and his servants, shape-changers and creatures of darkness and shadow and false beauty, like Sirens, are dangerous indeed.
Asmodeus the Corrupted
Demon Lord of Lust and Perversion, Asmodeus is one of the most vile and hated of all the Demon Lords. Asmodeus rules over the Incubi and Succubi, who take on the form of attractive males and females respectively to seduce mortal to perverted lusts and steal their vital energies. Asmodeus’ queen is Lillith, first wife of Adam who was made equal to him and who refused to be subservient to him and who fled Eden, becoming the first Succubus and queen of all Succubi
Beelzebub the Foul
Once worshipped in the ancient city of Ekron and in other places as Ba’al, a god of storms, Beelzebub is often depicted as the lieutenant of Lucifer and the second-in-command of all the Infernal Legions. He is known best by his title ‘Lord of the Flies’ and he has long been associated with disease and sickness. Beelzebub is Demon Lord of Gluttony. The creatures who serve him hunger constantly and they are frenzied monsters full of bloodlust, always seeking to rend, tear and devour. Many of his darkest and most feared servants are insectoid or worm-like in appearance and are adept at lying in wait for the unwary to fall into their staving maws.
Belphegor the Tempter
Belphegor is the Demon Lord of Sloth and he is known for tempting mortals with the promise of wealth and ingenious inventions so that they will become mired in the material world and forget spirituality and turn to laziness and corruption. Belphegor is a putrid, ugly creature but like most Demonic Lords he is able to assume a fair guise in order to better tempt humans to evil and corruption.
Charybdis the Vast
Charybdis, also known as Leviathan, is the master of all the demons of water and oceans, including the species named Leviathan after it. Charybdis is the Demon Lord of Envy and in ancient times it was known to destroy entire fleets and coastal cities with its whirlpools and tidal waves, it is also the Gatekeeper of Pandemonium, the Lower Plane closest to Earth and the Middle Plane. It is one of the few Demon Lords unable to assume a human guise, but it is also one of the largest and most powerful. As Gatekeeper of Pandemonium Charybdis and its servants constantly patrol the great rivers that seem to serve as the major inter-planar gateways between the realms of the Lower Planes, and the gates to Earth as well. Some suspect that Charybdis’ palace is not in the fortress of Pandemonium instead, but hidden submerged beneath the River Styx.
Lucifer the Fallen
Lucifer, also known as hêlēl or heylel and also as Satan by some, was supposedly the leader of the so-called Angelic Rebellion and is thought to be the sovereign of the Lower Planes. His name literally means ‘Light-bringer’ or ‘morning star’, and some believe him to have been the Lord of the Powers prior to his fall or possibly a Seraph. He rules Dis itself and from there all of the Lower Planes. Assumed to be the most powerful Demon in existence, his arrival on Earth is grounds for the immediate initiation of the Armageddon Protocol, a suicidal tactic in which all of the Earth’s spiritual and magical energies would be turned upon the planet in an effort to destroy him, and assumedly all the other Demons that would have come with him… The price would be the destruction of Earth, but The Society deems that to be a better alternative than loosing an eldritch abomination of such magnitude on the universe.
Demons are far more varied than their Angelic cousins, some look like reptilian humanoids, others have fur and cloven hooves and eyes of fire and tusks of black ice harder than diamond and still others appear pleasingly to the eye, beautiful creatures, but whose countenance becomes a perverse mockery of the human form if it is angered.
The highest of the Lower Planes, and therefore the one closest to the Middle Plane, is known as Pandemonium and it is a vast city-fortress ruled over by the Gatekeepr, Leviathan/Charybdis. Pandemonium is the region of the Lower Planes that is most similar to the classical depictions of Hell. The capital of the Lower Planes is Dis, and is located near the lowest reaches of the Lower Planes, standing on the edge of the Abyss itself.
Just as there are the Seven Archangels in the Higher Planes, so too are there the Seven Princes of the Lower Planes, where the Archangels supposedly represent order and virtue, the Princes represent chaos and vice. These seven entities are amongst the darkest and most twisted of Demonkind and the most powerful, each ruler over a certain tract of territory.
The Seven Infernal Princes
Abaddon the Destroyer
Demonic Lord of War, Rage and Strife, Abbadon the Destroyer is a being of immense size and ferocity encased in armour of a black metal unknown to Man that is as cold as ice, armour that sucks away all light and hope. Abbadon has a notoriously short temper and his rages are legendary, he is lord over all of the demons of wrath and violence and in war it is to him and these creatures that the first attacks always fall; berserkers to spread destruction and terror amongst the enemy. Abaddon was probably a Power or Principality before the Rebellion, his also known by the Greek name Apollyon.
Astaroth the Deceiver
Lord of Deceit and Lies, Astaroth is famed amongst Hell's Legions for his fair guise and sweet words, with which he enters the counsel of great lords and kings and sways them towards his own ends; sins, wars and terrible crimes and abuses of power. Though his influence on the world, like those of all the other Demon Lords, was lessened by the raising of The Veil so that he cannot go personally upon the earth to sow discord, Astaroth remains a deadly and treacherous creature and his servants, shape-changers and creatures of darkness and shadow and false beauty, like Sirens, are dangerous indeed.
Asmodeus the Corrupted
Demon Lord of Lust and Perversion, Asmodeus is one of the most vile and hated of all the Demon Lords. Asmodeus rules over the Incubi and Succubi, who take on the form of attractive males and females respectively to seduce mortal to perverted lusts and steal their vital energies. Asmodeus’ queen is Lillith, first wife of Adam who was made equal to him and who refused to be subservient to him and who fled Eden, becoming the first Succubus and queen of all Succubi
Beelzebub the Foul
Once worshipped in the ancient city of Ekron and in other places as Ba’al, a god of storms, Beelzebub is often depicted as the lieutenant of Lucifer and the second-in-command of all the Infernal Legions. He is known best by his title ‘Lord of the Flies’ and he has long been associated with disease and sickness. Beelzebub is Demon Lord of Gluttony. The creatures who serve him hunger constantly and they are frenzied monsters full of bloodlust, always seeking to rend, tear and devour. Many of his darkest and most feared servants are insectoid or worm-like in appearance and are adept at lying in wait for the unwary to fall into their staving maws.
Belphegor the Tempter
Belphegor is the Demon Lord of Sloth and he is known for tempting mortals with the promise of wealth and ingenious inventions so that they will become mired in the material world and forget spirituality and turn to laziness and corruption. Belphegor is a putrid, ugly creature but like most Demonic Lords he is able to assume a fair guise in order to better tempt humans to evil and corruption.
Charybdis the Vast
Charybdis, also known as Leviathan, is the master of all the demons of water and oceans, including the species named Leviathan after it. Charybdis is the Demon Lord of Envy and in ancient times it was known to destroy entire fleets and coastal cities with its whirlpools and tidal waves, it is also the Gatekeeper of Pandemonium, the Lower Plane closest to Earth and the Middle Plane. It is one of the few Demon Lords unable to assume a human guise, but it is also one of the largest and most powerful. As Gatekeeper of Pandemonium Charybdis and its servants constantly patrol the great rivers that seem to serve as the major inter-planar gateways between the realms of the Lower Planes, and the gates to Earth as well. Some suspect that Charybdis’ palace is not in the fortress of Pandemonium instead, but hidden submerged beneath the River Styx.
Lucifer the Fallen
Lucifer, also known as hêlēl or heylel and also as Satan by some, was supposedly the leader of the so-called Angelic Rebellion and is thought to be the sovereign of the Lower Planes. His name literally means ‘Light-bringer’ or ‘morning star’, and some believe him to have been the Lord of the Powers prior to his fall or possibly a Seraph. He rules Dis itself and from there all of the Lower Planes. Assumed to be the most powerful Demon in existence, his arrival on Earth is grounds for the immediate initiation of the Armageddon Protocol, a suicidal tactic in which all of the Earth’s spiritual and magical energies would be turned upon the planet in an effort to destroy him, and assumedly all the other Demons that would have come with him… The price would be the destruction of Earth, but The Society deems that to be a better alternative than loosing an eldritch abomination of such magnitude on the universe.