If the Abyss was mentioned, people often thought of endless, suffocating terror; of utterly vile, absurd environments and dangerous, frenzied demons; of the famed Plain of Infinite Layers and the battlefield of the seemingly unceasing Blood War.
For it was, without question, Coriel's most terrifying Lower Plane—the home of demons devoted to death and destruction, and one of the final destinations of chaotic evil souls.
Yet in truth, through its infinite layers and countless transformations, the Bottomless Abyss reflected a collection of every concept of ugliness, evil, and chaos. As its innumerable planes spiraled downward, it ultimately converged upon the very pinnacle of brutality.
Nor was the Blood War battlefield leading to Avernus in Barto Hell forever locked in battle every moment of every day. It was merely that the frequency of local wars erupting there was outrageously high.
When some bards peddled their baseless tales of Abyssal adventures, they often claimed that the Bottomless Abyss had 666 layers. No one knew who had first proposed that notion.
In reality, its true number of layers far exceeded that. Theoretically possessing infinite space, it was boundless—far more terrifying than conventional understanding could ever encompass.
And apart from well-read scholars or planar travelers who had truly ventured into the Abyss and returned safely, few knew that the Plain of Infinite Layers spoken of by natives of the Prime Material Plane was called by the Abyssal demons—
Pazunia.
It was merely famous as the Plain of Infinite Layers, or the Palace of a Thousand and One Chambers.
The place was covered in wind-scoured wastelands. Jagged stone mountains appeared and vanished beneath swarms of winged demons. Through the endless ages, a stifling red sun had bathed the entire plane in scorching heat and blinding sunlight. Dark clouds occasionally blanketed the plains, concealing lurking dangers,