The Garden of Pleasures is a luxurious hotel-casino-getaway nestled in the scorching streets of Dis, a small slice of paradise compared to the rest of the Ten Hells. Though once you walk through its doors, you may never be able to leave, becoming a slave to the garden's proprietor, the Efreeti Dalia Embervale.
About[edit | edit source]
Contrasting the stark iron towers of Dis, The Garden of Pleasures is a beautiful towering structure built out of colorful glass in the shape of a genie's bottle. This is because, the Garden's themselves are a genie bottle, increased in size by Dalia Embervale and opening access to the vast demiplane within. The garden has all amenities imaginable from fully stocked bars, expensive hotel rooms, relaxing spas, bustling casinos, high end restaurants, hot springs, and anything else that may satisfy one's pleasure. And since the gardens are a demiplane under Dalia's control, she can change it in anyway she wishes, catering to her guests desires and making sure there is always room for new visitors. The gardens are tended to by servants from all over the multiverse, all wearing brass collars and slaves to Dalia Embervale.
At first glance, the gardens look like paradise, but they are nothing but a beautiful trap. Entrance into the gardens is free, as well as all their services. Instead, you must pay to be able to leave. Those who cannot pay, are trapped inside forever. Some souls trapped in the Hells don't see it as a punishment to be trapped in the gardens forever, throwing themselves through its doors even when they know they cannot pay to get out. Oh how foolish these souls are. Eventually over long years of having their every desire tended to, ones soul slowly loses the ability to derive pleasure from these activities, wasting away into an emotionless husk. These souls will throw themselves before Dalia Embervale, begging to feel the pleasure they once reveled in, and Dalia will agree to this offer, in return for these souls becoming her eternal slaves. Any who attempt to disrupt the Garden's operations are quickly reigned in by powerful fire elementals and brought to heel before Dalia Embervale.
The Gardens is a hotspot for power archdevils and fiends from across the Hells and lower planes who frequent the gardens to enjoy its many services. Many important pacts and soul trades have been made in the gardens bars and pact houses.
History[edit | edit source]
Hundreds of years in the past, the noble Genie Dalia Embervale was tricked by the lord of Dis, Dispater, into making him the recipient of her three wishes. But after making two, Dispater refrained from making a third. Without the final wish, Dalia remained trapped and bound to Dispater and was unable to leave her bottle unless summoned by the archdevil. But Dalia was eventually able to find a workaround: while she couldn't leave her bottle, there were no limitations on how big her bottle could be. She grew her bottle to immense size and opened it up to the public of Dis, officially opening the Garden of Pleasures of business and becoming a staple of the Iron City.
The Liberation of Dalia Embervale[edit | edit source]
In 925 PR Dalia Embervale's last wish was liberated by the planeswalking heroes known as the Hellraisers, including Aivan Factorovich, Aliria Servine, Nyrgoth, Sylphine Nightfall, Balaam, and Endine di Valpadana. Now free, Dalia returned to the Elemental Plane of Fire, taking the gardens with her. Years later, she would long for the excitement of the Hells, and make a pact of equal partnership with the new ruler of Dis, Nyrgoth, to bring the Garden back to Dis, now reopened for business.