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Stygia

Stygia

What does the city look like?
Sty­gia is an infi­nite, frigid city, entire­ly cov­ered by thick ice sheets and colos­sal, grind­ing ice­bergs under a dark, stormy sky. It is a realm of eter­nal freez­ing twi­light, marked by bliz­zards, black ice, and the snake-like Riv­er Styx wind­ing through it.

Which city or cities is this near? Abyss and Tar­tarus

How many races live in this city? Key crea­tures walk­ing or lurk­ing there include Gel­u­gons (Ice Dev­ils), Amnizu (Styx Dev­ils), Erinyes, Abishai, Frost Giants, Remor­hazes, Cold­light Walk­ers, var­i­ous undead and Tieflings, often rul­ing over or hunt­ing in the freez­ing land­scape.

What are the cul­ture and tra­di­tions?
Sty­gia, is dom­i­nat­ed by cold-adapt­ed fiends, icy mon­strosi­ties, and trapped souls in ice cubes.
The inhab­i­tants of Sty­gia like fish­ing, hunt­ing, and they build­ing Igloos to live in.
They also tend to ice-skate on the riv­er Styx when frozen, with the risk of falling into the riv­er Styx.

They cap­ture polar bears to do heavy work, like doing tough met­al­work and trans­port­ing heavy items on carts that they pull behind them.

What is the tra­di­tion­al dress­code?
Medieval cloth­ing in red or black or a com­bi­na­tion of both, and some­times they wear armour.

What reli­gion pre­vails in the city?
They believe in Lev­is­tus, great-great-uncle of the dev­il Asmodeus and broth­er of Orcus.

What does the leader of this city look like?
Lev­is­tus resem­bles a large ice dev­il with white/blue skin and two large horns. He is around 2 or 3 metres tall and only wears trousers.

What is the sym­bol of the city?
The sym­bol of, the Archdev­il ruler of Sty­gia is a rapi­er blade trapped with­in a cube of ice. This sym­bol reflects his impris­on­ment by Asmodeus with­in a mas­sive ice­berg in his icy, mar­itime domain. 

How do crea­tures trav­el in this city? By horse and car­riage, ship and through fly­ing.

 

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