Black Hel

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The Black Hel was an Outer Plane of the Void (not the "Outer Void") where the I.C.E. Age version of Eorgina was banished at the end of the Wars of Dominion. She had ruled her own pantheon in the Black Hel up until that point, with a theocracy on a volcanic isle in southwest Jontara in homage to her, which was run by Kadaena's daughter. It was a culture that embedded demons within weapons and other objects, which were unique races of demonic fashioned by their dark gods and could only be summoned with the indigenous language.

There were demons of the Black Hel on the isle who were ancient, most notably the demonic gate whose wall surrounded the capital, who was 100,000 years old and so was built during the rule of the Empress Kadaena. There was thus an unexplained relationship between Kadaena and "Eorgina" in Shadow World history, implying the Dark Gods were banished at the end of the First Era. The Black Hel was never explicitly referenced in GemStone III, and few references exist to that isle, however parts of The Graveyard were clearly based on its temple and Bandur Etrevion was contemporary with it.