Maladomini
Maladomini, the seventh layer of the Nine Hells, is a bleak, decaying wasteland of failed ambition, relentless construction, and rotting grandeur. It is a plane consumed by endless cycles of building and abandonment, where ruins stretch across the land like scars, and smog chokes the sky above a realm perpetually under reconstruction yet never complete.
Maladomini reflects the infernal sin of pride turned to rot. It is a place where grandeur collapses under its own weight, and where nothing endures, because everything is corrupted—not by external forces, but by the very desire to improve, perfect, and control. Even beauty becomes grotesque under such obsessive revision.
Maladomini is a graveyard of glory, a layer ruled by the futility of unchecked ambition. It is a warning carved in stone and ash: that even the greatest designs, if rooted in pride and deceit, will fall into ruin. Here, infernal order serves not salvation or progress, but a cycle of delusion, where nothing ever truly improves, and failure is inevitable—even divine.
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Geography
Maladomini is littered with the crumbling remnants of past civilizations, shattered palaces, broken statues, and decayed cities—all abandoned in favor of newer, grander projects that themselves eventually fall into ruin. The terrain is dominated by urban decay, with cracked roadways, overgrown stone, and fouled rivers flowing with refuse and ash.
The very air is tainted with rot and industrial stench, heavy with dust and soot from forges, collapsing structures, and the constant movement of infernal laborers. Pestilence, filth, and the stench of disuse are omnipresent. Vast quarries and mines tear at the earth, stripping it of anything of value to feed the insatiable hunger for new building materials.
Maladomini is a layer of bureaucracy, control, and obsession, ruled by the archdevil Baalzebul, the Lord of Lies. Once a celestial being, Baalzebul’s fall from grace mirrors the decay of his domain—his ambition and pride drive endless construction, each project intended to outshine the last, yet all are doomed to fail under the weight of corruption, vanity, and infernal inefficiency.
The layer is home to:
- Devils of intrigue and deceit, such as erinyes, spinagons, and contract devils.
- Undead architects, infernal scribes, and tortured souls enslaved to endless labor.
- Swarms of vermin, including infernal rats, locusts, and carrion beetles, infest the ruins.
Among the most significant locations is Malagard, the central city and Baalzebul's seat of power. Malagard is a monument to oppressive perfectionism, constantly being rebuilt and never completed—its towers leaning, its streets torn up, its residents in a state of endless flux.
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