River Cocytus
Planar pathway
The River of Wailing, the Frozen River, the Fourth River of Hell. All names for the River Cocytus, one of the strangest rivers in the planes. Why so strange? Because it’s frozen along its whole length, berk. It’s pointless to talk about the rise and flow of this one, because there isn’t any. But there it is: In Cocytus, Pandemonium, and in Cania, Nessus and Stygia, Baator. Walking along the ice may lead you to a portal linking one frozen stretch to another. The river fills all of Cania, and lurks in the crevasses in Cocytus and Nessus. It ‘flows into’ the Styx in Stygia, although that’s an economy of the truth when talking about something which hasn’t remotely flowed for aeons. Rumours tell of ancient fiends and other things trapped in the ice, as well as luckless petitioners who angered the Lords of the Nine. One rumour even tells of a former Lord of the Ninth (also a fallen archon, the story goes) frozen in a deep canyon in Nessus.
Source: Alex Roberts
