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Pandæmonium

The terrestrial capital of Hell, described only by sources that contradict each other. None is reliable.

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Limbus Mundi

"They asked me what I saw. I answered that I saw towers. They asked how many. That is where my difficulty begins." — inquisitorial deposition of a survivor of the expedition of 1856, partial record

Canonical decision: Pandæmonium remains an iceberg.

There is no authorised description. There will be no plan, no figure of inhabitants, no list of districts and no map. This page exists to prevent anyone from filling it in by mistake.


Why an iceberg

Rule of the project, levers 1 and 8 of Apelo Organico: clear rules in the operation, opaque lore at the root. The universe is hard where the fighting is — mineral, pact, exorcism, hierarchy — and soft where it originates.

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