#115 The Grammaton Carillon

Age: 3,300 Years

Hidden or Lost?: Lost

History: The wars among the demons of Pandemonium and the devils of the Sixfold Hells are too convoluted to ever be recorded in full. Moreover, the endless betrayals and shifting allegiances make it just as impossible to deduce which side is even winning at any given time. But thousands of years past, there came a tipping point in the war when it seemed that the forces of Pandemonium would finally overtake the Sixfold devils and declare victory for the first time in eternity. To announce this promised victory, the demon bellsmiths created the Grammaton Carillon. Unfortunately its raison d’etre never materialized.

A complex of sprawling resonance chambers and stringed control stations, all connected to an array of hulking brimstone bells, the Grammaton Carillon was a giant instrument built like a demonic fortress. The complex was built into a cliffside hidden deep in a barren valley on the corporeal plane. When the bells sounded, Pandemonium’s victory would be announced both above and below, alerting the Powers That Be that the war had ended.

Forged by the famed demon inventor Themestigon, the grand brimstone bells were designed to fill the hearts of Pandemonium’s faithful with the Victors Rage, a frenzy state that would cause the demons to raze all that they saw, burning a scar across existence to mark their dominance. However, this was also the Carillon’s fatal flaw.

Once word of the titanic instrument got out, the devils of the Sixfold Hells, even in their diminished state, immediately saw its potential as a weapon. At the same time the devils began searching for the Carillon’s location, the forces of Pandemonium soon recognized their hubris and ordered the destruction of the Carillon. But prideful Themestigon would not let his great work be erased. Instead, he adjusted the tone of the Apocalypse Bells to unleash a peal of forgetting that erased all memory of the Carillon from existence.

Although traces of the Grammaton Carillon survived, it mostly faded into daemonic myth. Even all these ages later, Themestigon still roams the halls of the Carillon tending to the ancient instrument, awaiting the day he can finally play its true song of victory.

1. The Brimstone Bells

2. The Ropes + Gears

3. Rumble Drums

4. The Pandemonium Orchestral

5. The Tuning Forest

6. The Listening Arches

7. The Grand Bell of Heaven

8. Chained Historian’s Library

9. Quasit Warren

10. Steps of the Howling Choir

11. Hall of the Slow Echo

12. Organs of Conquest

13. Themestigon’s Burrow

14. Themestigon’s Songbooks