How difficult was it to rescue someone from the Well of Darkness? One example was enough to make that clear.
Hadn't there been mention earlier of a demon lord named Ebulon? As previously explained, he was a general who had followed Graz'zt from the very beginning of his rise to power, and his loyalty was beyond question. After he was defeated and captured by Demogorgon, Demogorgon intended to turn him into a blade against Graz'zt. Yet this demon lord would rather die than submit, so Demogorgon threw him into the labor pits. Even Graz'zt was astonished by his loyalty, and resolved to rescue his ally.
Graz'zt was a standard villain, after all. He had always been notorious for betrayal and twisted amusements. He had always believed loyalty to be a weak and hypocritical notion, something that disgusted him. But when it came to Ebulon, he really had nothing to say. Save him, then! (Of course, the reasons given in the setting books for why Graz'zt had to save Ebulon differed somewhat from those here. I embellished it a little, though the difference wasn't all that great. I don't like writing characters as too extreme—evil for evil's sake. After all, any being capable of independent thought would naturally possess some glimmers of humanity.)
Ever since the era of the Three Great Lords, Graz'zt had been trying to rescue his ally. Yet even now, Ebulon was still stuck in the labor pits. It was not that Graz'zt had merely been putting on a show. He had sincerely done everything he could to save him, but it had been utterly useless.
Every so often, he would send his armies to attack the Well of Darkness. But every time, apart from leaving behind corpses and sending even more unlucky bastards into the pools to