Blog updated.
Don't get too excited, though. This one is a minor edit of the very first part. I wanted to tweak the prologue just a smidge. It's not much. I just added a bit about demons and devils fighting on the nautiloid.
So, after describing manes and dretches, I added:
As Kethryn's vision began to clear, he spotted imps and cambions dropping lemures, the lowest of devils, through a hole in the chamber's ceiling some forty feet away, to his right. It was an almost endless stream of devilkin; grunt troops in some great battle - the Blood War. Vrocks, vulture-like winged humanoid demons, were the ones delivering the manes and dretches; dropping them through another hole only twenty feet off to his right. The demons were, therefore, between him and the devils.
Yes. It was as if the Blood War had come to wherever he was. Manes and dretches were demons. Imps and lemures were devils, and cambions were children of fiends, standardly half mortal and half devil. Lemures were like five-foot tall blobs of stinking, oozing flesh made from the souls of the selfish, wicked and cruel who died. They had somewhat humanoid heads and upper torsos, but their lower halves were gelatinous, festering good. Imps were two-foot tall winged humanoids who generally had red skin, scorpion tails, sharp fangs and twisted horns. A cambion was standardly a blend between a human and an imp with leathery bat-like wings, twisted horns, a human face, arms and legs, but with claws, sharp teeth and blazing eyes.
For ages on end, devils and demons, like two different races of fiends, warred with one another. Demons were denizens of the chaotic plane of the Abyss, while devils were the inhabitants of the lawful evil realm called Avernus. Both were layers of the Nine Hells; Avernus being the first and the primary battlefield. Endless numbers of demons sailed along the River Styx into the domain of devils only to find hordes waiting to repel them. Now, they were waging their war right there in the chamber he was in, killing each other and the mind flayers' forces.
