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Episode 1: Summary:
The heroes discover that Gehenna is not as pleasant as they thought... Of particular interest, was an encounter with a dying silver hound archon, Fillias, who asked the heroes to aid him in freeing his "charges." He confessed that he was a poor teacher, and when he tried to lead his students on the Path of Self-Sacrifice, they fell victim to masochism. Convinced that inflicting pain and suffering on oneself was the greatest of holiness, Fillias' students fell sway to the philosophies of a kocrachon baatezu, named Malleous. The hound archon, with his last dying will, formed himself into a weapon to aid the heroes in the confrontation.
They dispatched the baatezu easily, despite the ever growing numbers of lemures that it summoned. ![]() However, this left Fillias' 12 students, all fallen archons. Their glowing forms became that of fleshy orbs with a faint inner luminescence. They were spiked through the middle, and anchored to the ground. The heroes had slaughtered the fiend, but what lay was a more difficult task of saving the souls of the fallen archons...
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