Floating above the volcano known as Chamada is an idyllic town on a small moon between 500 and 2,000 feet across, editions differ on its actual size. Built across this moon is a town filled with happy faces and beautiful buildings of all kinds. This moon is not affected at all by the horrible atmosphere of Chamada and is a peaceful city with all manner of supplies, the city itself wants to become a major trading outpost and all the townsfolk strive constantly to make sure the city stays clean.

What most travelers don’t realize is that Nimicri is actually a massive mimic who has built the entire town itself. All the residents are just extension of the mimic, you can tell because both their feet never leave the floor, and if pulled away, you can see strands of good clinging to them. Every building, person, and permanent object, like statues, are part of the mimic and thus everyone has the singular focus of Nimicri. Because the mimic is growing, it needs more and more townsfolk to populate its town, so whenever visitors come to this town it finds some way to make them bleed. The mimic only needs a single drop of blood to reproduce that person on its surface and will come up with all manner of circumstances to ensure it gets a bit of blood from everyone.

Of course, it also eats people, though it keeps the number of missing travelers to a minimum to attract more and more trade routes, thus more and more people. It’s hoping one day to have thousands of people moving across it so that it has its choice of meal anytime it gets hungry.

Tower of the Arcanaloths

Over the lava and inhospitable terrain is the Tower of the Arcanaloths, also known as the Arcane Tower, it is a sweeping tower with spikes, spires, and architecture that is reminiscent of Sigil. This tower houses all the contracts the yugoloths have ever made for the Blood War, each contract magically burned into the living skin of petitioners found on this plane. The living skin is then kept in the deep layers of the tower, far below the surface of Chamada where the yugoloths jealously guard every secret, contract, and knowledge they have about the planes, their race, the Blood War, and more.

No one save for the arcanaloths and ultroloths are allowed in this Tower, which is why it is built on this horrifying layer of Gehenna. If you step inside the tower, you can find the bodies of flayed petitioners hanging on chains from the ceiling, their blood dripping down into a giant vat below them, this is where the arcanaloths get their ink to draw up their contracts. Lining the walls near these bodies are devices of torture that the arcanaloths will use on the flayed bodies to pass the time, to help them think or to just relax for a few minutes.

It is rumored that an arcanaloth can access the information found in the deep libraries of this tower, all they have to do is focus on the tower and its secrets. Of course, if an arcanaloth has betrayed the yugoloths, they would probably refuse to mentally connect to the tower as then any arcanaloth would know where they are and could send yugoloths out to destroy them.

Mungoth, the Burning Ice

The third volcano and layer of this plane is covered in ice and ash. The fires here are slowly dying out, providing meager illumination to this entire layer. Hard, black rock covers the top of this layer as the lava has long since stopped flowing across its top, though there is plenty of seismic activity on the inside of the volcano as magma still bubbles and burns its way through the layer. Ice, snow, mud, and ash make up most of this layer, and many consider this layer to be the second most hospitable layer in Gehenna.

The normal dangers of this plane are the mudslides that can pick up snow and ash, their cold so painful that it feels as if the snow and ash are burning your unprotected skin. Of course, if you have the proper protection, you only have to worry about avoiding the massive mudslide that will knock you off this layer into the void or bury you alive under a ton of mud, ash, and rock.

Portent

While there are very few cities across Gehenna, most of them can be found on the first layer, Khalas. Portent is one of the few cities located on the third layer and it comes with a variety of oddities. First, there is no ruler of Portent, no one has been able to garner enough power in order to firmly take over the city. Second, there are no militias. This city has no need of one as all fights end up being verbal, no one can draw their weapon in anger in this city, though that doesn’t mean there is no death. Murder is incredibly common in this city, you just can’t kill someone while you are seeing red.