General Info

Entering the Dungeon
The Dungeon is at the bottom of every chasm - at the end of every ‘bottomless’ pit in every sepulchre across the Multiverse. Anything that becomes lost or forgotten in the depths of castles, labyrinths, and caverns all somehow seem to find their way to the Dungeon eventually.

Sentient life in the Dungeon ranges from having arrived only moments ago, to having been trapped inside since close to the beginning of time. Animals and monsters have evolved here, adapting to their new environment of endless traps and terrors. Humanoids have had generation after generation of children born and raised in the Dungeon, knowing no life but the struggle to survive in a monster-filled labyrinth wherein nothing can be trusted.

Leaving the Dungeon
Nothing ever leaves the Dungeon. Or, at least, no one has ever admitted to leaving the Dungeon, except for those making up stories to boast about around the hearth. It could be that having spent any amount of time in the Dungeon is too traumatic experience to ever bring up again, or that some kind of enchantment over the place prevents knowledge about it from leaving, like a black hole from which even thought cannot escape.

As note even planar travel allows for escape from its Confines, some Denizens (such as the Trapsetters Guild) speculate that the Dungeon has a reflection of itself within every plane of existence. If one does attempt to travel between planes while inside the Dungeon, they find themselves simply at another physical location: a shift purely in x, y, and z coordinates. Different branches of the Dungeon are associated consistently with different planes, so that someone who travels to the Ethereal Plane, for example, will be able to predict roughly where they are going to end up in physical space. Certain branches of the Dungeon are inhabited primarily by entities and features from a specific plane, suggesting that creatures from the same plane end up in roughly the same part of the Dungeon. These plane-specific branches can be up to hundreds of miles apart.