The first layer of the Abyss, Pazunia, Severed Domain Town.
Though its name ended in "town," this settlement, built around a portal amid the ruins of shattered stone towers, was practically the largest city on the entire Plain of Infinite Layers in Pazunia. It could even be said to be one of only two trade hubs in the whole Bottomless Abyss with sufficient order.
At this point, someone might curiously ask: then what was the first?
The six-fingered Dark Prince Graz'zt declared that his trinitarian Zelatar Bazaar was number one in the Abyss!
But anyone who had made a living there knew that it was perhaps the greatest gathering place of unscrupulous merchants in all Coriel. Only traders bearing the six-finger mark could avoid harassment and persecution from the demon residents.
If you went there to do business with dreams of striking it rich, without the slightest preparation or understanding, the most likely outcome would not be merely getting cheated out of your last pair of trousers—you might even end up having to lick someone else's ass!
Perhaps deeply influenced by that famously lecherous old bastard of the Abyss, that place could only be considered the Abyss's largest slave-trading center, especially for slaves used in the traditional sort of manual labor.
Thus, when it came to the place most popular among adventurers in the Abyss, Severed Domain Town still took the crown.
There were two reasons why the weapons and supplies they brought from other planes could fetch the highest prices here.
First, it stood upon the famous Plain of Infinite Layers in Pazunia, the first layer of the Abyss. Part of its border connected to Avernus in Barto Hell, at a place called the Blood Rift—the battlefield of the Blood War, which had raged for countless years and echoed