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! colspan=2 style="background-color: lightgrey;" | Nine Hells
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| Alignment || Lawful Evil
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| Inhabitants || Devils
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| Layers || Nine
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The '''Nine Hells''', also called the '''Nine Hells of Baator''' (BAY-uh-tor), '''Baator''', the '''Hells''', or simply '''Hell''', is a [[Lawful Evil]] [[plane]] of tyranny and oppression under the iron grip of [[Asmodeus]]. <!-- It is a great pit, nine layers deep, each worse than the last, where suffering and terror are -->

The Nine Hells is a world of cruelty and ruthlessness under the absolute rule of a single mind: that of Asmodeus. No word is whispered here that is unheard by him. No secret is hidden from his ever-watching eye. It is a plane of conformity, totalitarianism, and bureaucracy.

In Phoena, the Nine Hells is called '''Barrator''' (BAR-uh-tor, Phoenic: برتور Barratūr).

== Inhabitants ==

The principal inhabitants of the Nine Hells are the [[devil|devils]], [[Lawful Evil]] [[fiend|fiends]] arranged in a strict hierarchy.
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Baator is composed of nine layers, each ruled by one of the [[Lords of the Nine]], the greatest of the [[archdevil|archdevils]].

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all agree there are nine layers or "circles" of Baator

Abn-Azer names them and their rulers as follows:

1. Avernus - Zariel the Fallen
2. Dis - The Iron King
3. Minauros - Marshal Ragaan
4. Pagosha - Fierna and Belial
5. Sazos - The Black Prince
6. Asala - Princess Glasya
7. Kynzia - The White Prince
8. Shaatha - Mephistopheles
9. Nessus - Asmodeus

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