Pandemonium and Carceri - D&D Lore

[@tk337h]

''... anything yelled from the top of the crag find its way to the ears of the intended recipient, no matter where they are in the great wheel.'' does anyone else find this idea absolutely terrifying? what if some beggar who bothered you seven years ago dies, ends up in pandemonium, goes mad, somehow regains his memory of you through the madness, then sets up camp at the top of the crag and shouts obscenities at you for the rest of your life?

[@jamesgorman5692]

The entire place is nightmarish, just more and more stone without a sky.

[@Groznor.Grumbles]

And afterlife.....yikes.

[@BRoyce69]

The location isn't helping it's case, but yeah, i feel that

[@AllWillBeRevealed957]

Also among the howling winds that drive people insane are the voices of long dead and forgotten gods. There's an area that resembles a massively vast cavern that contains gargantuan petrified forms both humanoid and alien, their expressions are contorted in pain, despair and suffering... and it's said that's where the voices come from. I'm surprised Jorphdan didn't mention this.

[@LeKain08]

Guy yelling at the top of the crag : "I fucked your mom!"

[@Demogorgon47]

I always love the lore of the Ship of The Dead One Hundred. It's this ship that sails through one of the layers of Carceri (the one with all the frozen water and craggy bergs I think) and on board the ship is relatively empty. It seems to sail itself and is filled with a tonne of monsters, demons and other horrors but most horrifying is in the hull of the ship there is exactly 100 sealed coffins. No one really knows what happens when you open the coffins as every time it happens some terrifying calamity opened up and destroy all the inhabitants aboard. Whenever that happens the ship docks at it's next docking empty and silent. Needless to say those using the ship as transport or a home hold a very dim view of anyone stupid enough to open the coffins. As for the coffins themselves they say that the ship is carrying them to their final resting place but can only do so on the day the great blood wars between devil, demons and angels comes to it's end.

[@DreamingOfAuroras]

This is a really lovely concept. Happy spooky month!

[@jamesgorman5692]

Pandemonium really is a nightmarish place, I wonder who came up with it.

[@Mortablunt]

It sounds outright worse to me than any other plane

[@azazelreeds]

My players will be travelling to Pandemonium soon to hut down an old god called Thunder, This video really helped giving me an ideas just what the plane is like.

[@tnm1697]

I'm thinking of punishing my players for being murder hobos by sending them to Carceri

[@nathanielphillips2576]

Oooh and the way they become stronger than what binds them is charity for their greed is what got them there in the first place! I like this idea :)

[@tnm1697]

Nathaniel Phillips or to escape they have to throw their most cherished belongings into a pit of all consuming lava

[@Meowthix]

It's a realm that holds anything the gods deem as too dangerous for the material plane, just let them do some epic murderhobo thing that results in the gods tossing them there. Might actually make a fun campaign while breaking them of murderhobo habits.

[@Jeromy1986]

Pandemonium is like Dante's Lust Hell. I always imagined Carceri having lots of metal bars everywhere.

[@darkmaterial499]

I can imagine a party going on a quest to pandemonium to find that crag and send a message to someone important that they are unable to find. Also, I imagine it would be pretty funny to have a guy just yelling from the top of a spire: "MEET US AT THIS PLACE AT THIS TIME, PLEASE."

[@ianwilliams9559]

The Bog of Eternal Stench!

[@tabithaalphess2115]

Thanks for this! I've been trying to do some research on Carceri lately because one of my Player's gods is imprisoned there. The god's name is Chaos, a supreme being who lives up to his name and takes on the form of a massive dark dragon. He's the god of change, destruction, death, and freedom. Before his imprisonment, he used to ravage the Material Plane in "cycles," purging it of its weakness and impurities like wildfire. When gods became corrupt, he slew them. After many eons, the gods of law, order, and justice found a way to bind him and imprisoned him in Mount Celestia, hoping the realm would help temper him. When this failed, he was banished to the deepest layers of Carceri. My player wants to release him, so he can once again purge the Material Plane of corruption and reign o. his throne in Limbo

[@wilsonnogueira1183]

Keep up the good work. I can’t wait for the Hades episode. My main character just sold his soul to a night hag and apparently she takes it to hades when you die.

[@Jorphdan]

Hades is next week, not the nicest place for your characters soul to go. But a great place for night hags!

[@t.b.cont.]

Well, time to make a campaign involving trying to escape Carceri at lvl 1

[@rickyevans2697]

You are a monster!!!! 😂

[@Luredreier]

That's likely to go badly. Kind of sounds fun though. :-)

[@LeKain08]

The crag is truely terrifying. Imagine a guy on top of it and using its power to constantly yell spoilers at everyone's ear. Scary..'

[@Yora21]

I've long wanted to play an alternate Planescape capaign that has only half the number of outer planes, with the lower planes being Pandemonium, Carceri, Gehenna, and Archeron. These are too often ignored, with all attention going to the Abyss and the Nine Hells (and sometimes Hades).

[@Zak-is8th]

Great video's J, keep it up man, I really appreciate them.

[@Jorphdan]

Thanks :D

[@MerlinTheCommenter]

Basically Pandemonium is the DnD version of that horrific cave in the film _THE DESCENT_ that film's true ending really did ruin cave exploration for me 😂

[@Real_Sp00ks]

These videos are awesome man! Keep it up

[@fotosladob-fotoenbodas]

Excelente aunque me cueste entender tu idioma tus videos son lo mejor que he encontrado para expandirnos visiualmente el multiverso, saludos!

[@buddybritain]

Awesome videos man! I often send these videos to my players who are unfortunately too lazy to do there own research, but you help out a lot! Keep it up!

[@Jorphdan]

+Buddsta Britain thanks for sharing and yes I'll continue!!

[@j-fallard5351]

Great work, keep it coming!

[@baddonkey6876]

2:40 Looks like how i imagined Cyric's castle looked before Kelevmor took it, but maybe a little more bone white

[@rickyevans2697]

Thinking of Pandemonium, and the Plane of Earth, gives me a anxiety. It makes my claustrophobia act up!!!!

[@frankie9373]

Id love to see a DnD based horror adventure movie set in pandemonium

[@ldl1477]

I've been toying with the idea of "Dungeons" being accessed through "Thin spots between realities"; leading to maybe a Demiplane, or an extra layer of an existing plane, such as Pandemonium. Why is this Dungeon entrance here? -- Chaotic Planes do whatever Chaotic Planes will. Who built this Dungeon? -- The mad dreams & desires of untold peoples. Isn't this just an excuse for a lazy GM to "roll up" a dungeon on the fly w/out having to explain why Monster X is squatting in some room? -- The beatings will continue, until morale improves!

[@LampseekerForevermore]

I made a sorcerer character who’s origin was that he was once imprisoned in carceri and was tainted by the plane irreversibly

[@goldguy81]

Thanks for the video!

[@gigagilga.beats5]

Our entire party is stuck in pandemonium, we are fucked

[@debreczeniarpad9956]

Just sell or trick some into selling souls to helpfuler Ultroloths. Good luck. What happened Clayton?

[@timfrank7461]

Pandemonium is one of my favorite places tbh

[@Grayhammer]

Where do you find these maps on the planes and their cities and locations?

[@Jorphdan]

Just google around, you should be able to find them. Are you speaking about this image? blogofholding.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/GreatWheelMap.jpg

[@demoix]

Wow, really terrifying places !!

[@alivecoy]

lol funny spoilers for Critical Role below. and on the finale of S1 of Critical Role Grog picked from The Deck of Many Things and got sent to pandemonium.

[@WexMajor82]

I planeshift the red dragon. To the red prison, Carceri. Seems fitting. See you never!

[@Parasmunt]

I really love the art

[@FaieEnigma]

Thanks for all this great videos. I just wonder what is the name of the painting at 4:45-4:50?

[@keithgaspard9950]

So Pandemonium is basically where KZbinrs sample their “10 hours white noise videos.”

[@TheDanielMoose]

Any surface is a floor if you are close enough thats the attitude I can get behind

[@LordMortanius]

Why no mention of the planes' deific residents? Nerull, Parrafaire and Falazure all live in Carceri because they like it; Nerull in particular enjoys the irony of dwelling in a prison plane. The Greek titans are also stuck in Carceri, Malar was kicked there by Talos, and Vhaeraun's in hiding there from his mother's grip. Apomps, creator of the demodands, is also the place's most famous resident; he was banished there by his fellow baernoloths. As for Pandemonium, the Norse Loki and the Faerunian Auril dwell in Winter's Hall, the headwaters of the Styx. Talos lives in the Towers of Ruin. The Wand of Orcus was hidden there by Kiaransalee when she murdered Orcus.

[@gohantanaka]

It’s JorFdan!

[@Eric-yj7fs]

Ive been looking everywhere but cant find much that describes moving from one layer of carceri to another. Examples: where are the barriers located, what are the barriers, what actually is transisioning from one layer to another? Is it entering a portal that takes you to a smaller planet? Are there tunnels connecting the layers together? Perhaps you could help with these questions.

[@Kakkarot211]

carceri sounds crazy too

[@archbldr]

How does carceri define being stronger than the one that imprisoned you?

[@Jorphdan]

Good question. I don't particularly have a solid answer other than "that's what I read." However I'd assume if an evil wizard banished you there you'd have to be strong enough to defeat him in order to break that spell that keeps you there.

[@arielcar55]

I think its meaning that there is no way out, you arent imprisoned a certain amount of time, you are there for eternity, unless you get stronger enough to break your chains (Or whatever), defeat those who imprisoned you and find a way out of the plane

[@HeadCannon1776]

Jorphdan I would like to see a video on the outer darkness where all of the aberrations come from.

[@Jorphdan]

+James Moore that's a great idea. I'll see if I can find enough info for a full episode.

[@Bhunt9394]

Pandemonium just sounds like it’s a part of the Elemental Plane of Earth instead of its own plane.

[@timmythemini6128]

Aren't Howlers from Mordenkainen's tome of foes native to pandemonium?

[@storm5009]

Image source in 3:36 , 5:15?

[@overse7938]

Pandemonium is the place of psychic torture, wilst carceri is a place of time torture

[@joelofjudah9144]

My group and I got stuck in Carceri one time.

[@a.9913]

How did you get there? Why? How did you escape?

[@dotsdot5608]

what of you are already deaf when you enter pandemonium

[@XNaturalPhenomenonX]

I love your videos but I expected you to mention the unseelie court in pandemonium.

[@Jorphdan]

I miss things here and there :( Tell me more about this unseelie court in pandemonium. Not just in the feywild?

[@brightglory5734]

Is the PH silent on every plane?

[@Gr33nOfGrundleburg]

Careful how you plot in Carceri; you may piss off an inevitable

[@boggo3848]

Well that's horrifying.

[@kikedragoon]

The nightmare fuel came earlier today

[@100iqgaming]

in my game carceri is an actual prison

[@juliuscaesar5397]

In my language (Volkatir), Karseræ is a swear word.

[@iGuttsi]

Konsul Darkstalker that's fitting lol, is there an English translation?

[@GrimgoreIronhide]

I really wish some of these planes would get more attention and detail. Hell and the abyss are such drama queen attention hogs.

[@debreczeniarpad9956]

Let me be clear, please answer me anyone. So to enter a deeper and more hellish level of Carceri, one needs to reach the orb's deepest level. How do one, from a deeper level, reach one higher?

[@thunder_the_simp]

So is Carceri basically Tartarus?

[@agsilverradio2225]

Well, the extended name of the plane, is "the Tartarian dephs of Carceri."

[@realhuman4879]

What up with the evil planes and layers

[@baddonkey6876]

I always pronounced phlegethon FLEDGE-a-THAWN but i guess it's subjective

[@qrow8638]

If you wrote a script before the video, and recited it. Could you post the script?

[@vicloo0574]

Can people be born in these places?

[@MrElvenbrother]

Like number 66. Nice.

[@bearly1395]

one thousandth like

[@Jorphdan]

Thanks :D