The Campaign Builder's Guild

Quote from: the_takenIf you go to the layer below the lowest layer, doesn't the former become the later by default?

You have then gone beyond the ken of demons into something else entirely.
Or some crap like that. :bull:

See, I like the idea of Orcus being more than a demon lord, being the very essence of anti-life.  

The Rending...that's something right out of H.R. Giger...both cool and very disgustingly disturbing. Have to bear that one in mind...it's shocking enough to have players not take it casually at all.

I like the Zirr idea a lot too...since I'm planning on using desert as a motif later in my campaign I am thinking seriously about demonic shifting sands...

However the Hall of Mournful Seraphim is also very evocative. Really good work here you guys.

The Whispering Sea

The Whispering Sea is sometimes found by cursed ship crews and by those who are wrecked in strange storms or by evil creatures of the deeps. It is a vast sea, seemingly endless. Now and then becalmed, it is never truly quiet. Whispering winds breathe softly or strongly across the ripples or waves, and everywhere a person turns is nothing but water. The only solid surface material is the occasional piece of wreckage or rocks too small to harbour any safety or life, that are actually dangerous for ships or places of ultimate no hope for survivors. Somehow for those unfortunates who find themselves there there is some means to stay just alive enough to hunger and thirst, but never quite die. Despair leads to impulses of cannibalism and madness.

In the depths, evil creatures swim, but the worst of all is the lord of the realm. The lord of the realm is Proteus, a sea creature that takes on the shape of whatever terrifying mode works most on the imagination of the tormented in its realm. (for instance as a giant shark, a whale, a kraken, etc)

Proteus will make a bargain with those who are truly desperate, and give them a form of undead life in exchange for being its servants. Some of the evil tales of ghost ships come from this.