Editing Hades (section)

===Oinos===
The first layer (also referred to as a "Gloom") is pretty much a wasteland. There is not much here other than craters, the occasional husk of a tree, the forgotten detritus of ancient wars and a whole bunch of rotting corpses. If you need more inspiration, the realm probably resembles no-mans-land in WWI with all the colour and depth of a black and white photograph.

Oinos is the stage of the Blood War and thus you don't want to roam here too often, otherwise, you'll find yourself running into Demons or Devils or worse.

But not only that, you'll have to look out for the [[Yugoloth]]s, the Neutral evil faction of outsiders much like Devils and Demons.
The seat of the Yugoloths' power in Hades rests in Oinos, where there is a tower, twenty miles high called the '''Khin-Oin'''. The tower is said to be the spinal column of a long-dead god that came to rest on the plane. At the top of the tower is a throne, called the ''Siege Malicious'' where the ruler of the tower may sit. It should be noted that the temporal ruler of the Yugoloths is the ''General of [[Gehenna]]'', though his power only extends as far as his ability to enforce it, and since he's on another plane the Yugoloths here pretty much serve themselves.

The throne of the ''Siege Malicious'' gives the user the ability to create or modify any disease with just a thought. It comes with its own price, as any ruler who sits on the throne is cursed to have their skin slough off and be disfigured. But this is nothing compared to usurpers who sit on the throne without the right to do so, who are inflicted with a particularly severe case of the '''[[AIDS|Gray Wasting]]''' which is ''yet another'' disease inherent to the plane, but unrelated to '''The Grays''' or the entrapment effect.

It is often said that Oinos is the [[Nurgle|original source of all disease]] in the multiverse. So you not only have to watch out for the Grays and the spiritual weakening that comes with Hades, but you'll also have to prepare for the smorgasbord of pestilence and corruption that exists on this layer as well.