Khin-Oin
| Planar Site | |
|---|---|
| Plane: | The Gray Waste |
| Layer: | Oinos |
| Ruler: | Mydianchlarus |
- Khin-Oin's made from the flayed spine of the first god who tried to cross the yugoloths. The yugoloths turned it into a fortress where they hatched their schemes to dominate the multiverse. Though they're ostensibly always fighting, they actually have a master plan to bring the rest of creation under yugoloth control.
It's said that Khin-Oin, the Wasting Tower, soars 20 miles above the surface of the ground, and plunges 20 miles below. Whatever's the truth, it's big. A body standing at the bottom looking up sees the massive vertebra of a long-dead colossus looming over him. One central column curves into Oinos' sky, with lesser towers built out of its side all the way up. A body can only imagine how far out they extend underground.
Chant is that the Yugoloths came from this place, that they were created in the pits deep beneath the tower. No one knows the truth of it, but it is known that in all of recorded time, none but the yugoloths have ever held the tower. Of course, that's more a testament to their ability to pull together in the face of opposition than their proficiency in working as a group.
All sorts of politics play out in Khin-Oin. Plenty of ultroloths lair here, and all of them have their own vision of perfection. Each looks to convince the others of this vision. Of course, they all realize there's little chance that the others will come around, and so they all engage in physical "debate." Every day the halls erupt into pitched battle as one faction or another decides to press for greater power.
The wasted figure of the Oinoloth watches over all this. Though theoretically in charge of the yugoloth efforts on the Gray Waste, in reality the Oinoloth is too busy holding onto its own precarious position in the Wasting Tower, playing one faction off another. These days, a yugoloth called Mydianchlarus rules the tower. In the last yew years, Mydianchlarus managed to overthrow Anthraxus, the previously reigning Oinoloth. Now the new ruler struggles to maintain the power it's built over the years, and to accumulate a little more for itself.
The tower's features are nothing short of amazing. Of course, once a body realizes that the whole thing's 40 or more miles from top to bottom and at least a mile thick, it's not so hard to understand why Khin-Oin's one of the most prized cases in the multiverse.