Penitus

Penitus was the prison fortress of the Tyrant Penitent--the semi-divine figure tasked with punishing those who had violated The Law of Lunis. In its early days, the fortress housed its inmates in relative comfort, genuinely seeking to rehabilitate them, to bring their hearts and minds back in line with the guidance of The Absolute’s Law and reinstate the infallible loyalty required of all Luniites. Most of these prisoners were from the Skunlynn underclass, as the Notari, Archons, and Tyrants themselves were largely above punishment (although they were supposedly as bound to The Law as any other).   As Luniite society became more corrupt, and the power of the Nine Tyrants increasingly unhinged, Penitus became a place of elaborate torture, populated more by those who had agitated the arbitrary whims of their rulers, and less by true criminals. By then, Lunis was collapsing under the weight of its own decadence, increasingly corrupted by the influence of Terminus Nocta, the Permanent Night, which even now hangs in the sky like an obscene purple fruit.   Physically, Penitus survived the swift, brutal fall of Lunis, driven by the Tyrant’s rebellion against The Absolute, but its complicated order of harlequin prison guards was largely destroyed with the rest of the Luniite power structure. The imposing building became a favored haunt of corruption and home to the harrowed spirits of the condemned, which continue to take myriad forms within the forgotten halls. Indeed, it seems that the very idea of punishment itself has taken life in what remains of Penitus, the spirit of torture made incarnate even in the walls themselves. It is this power that now rules Penitus, aided by its servant Cenophin The Cell Keeper, who tends to those souls unfortunate enough to find themselves trapped within. Punishment seems to deal with entities from across the multiverse, accepting their prisoner offerings for reasons that remain obscure, meting out suffering, but also planting the seeds of redemption.