Pazunia, the first layer of the Bottomless Abyss.
On this day, Krurich, Keeper of the Gate, arrived before an iron fortress forged beside a rift in the Great Abyss. He thrust out his brawny chest, narrowed the eye set within it slightly, and revealed an eager, expectant expression.
This towering structure, reaching into the clouds, resembled a gigantic egg of ugly, savage appearance. It was the palace of Altinashi, Lady of Transformation.
This demon princess was not only infamous throughout the Abyss; her evil reputation had likewise spread far and wide across the several other Material Planes reached by her tentacles.
Though, like Pazuzu, Lord of the Skies, she took delight in the fall and corruption of the pure and innocent, she lacked the latter's refined methods.
Altinashi's church was devoted to concocting rescue schemes in the Material World to lure kind-hearted, justice-loving, holy beings—paladins, Angels, aasimar, unicorns, and the like—into this egg-shaped structure in the Great Abyss.
Here, they would be forced to endure all manner of horrific human experiments and bodily modifications, which would corrupt their good nature and bind them to Altinashi's fickle, bizarre whims.
Once utterly fallen, these benevolent beings who had once taken morality and justice as their standards would become as chaotic and evil as demons. Their fallen selves would henceforth become as ugly as demons as well, but Altinashi's vile amusement lay in using her Talent Ability to transform these poor, corrupted creatures back into the pure and holy forms they had once possessed, thereby twisting and mocking the minds of their pitiful souls.
Although these victims sometimes chose to mutilate themselves out of remorse and guilt over the contradiction between their present forms and their hearts, they ultimately could not resist their altered natures for long. Before long, uncontrollable fury would seize