Minauros (city)

Minauros, also called the Sinking City was the capital of the 3 layer of Hell, named after the city itself. Minauros was the world-sized metropolis of the archdevil Mammon and received its "Sinking" epithet from the fact that the entire settlement was inexorably slipping deeper and deeper into the extraplanar bog that was the layer.

Description
Covered in vines and sluge, the Sinking City was, like many cities in the 3 Hell, composed of ornately carved stone and constructed in the cyclopean architectural style. Despite its seemingly impossible vastness, the city did not take up the entire layer, but was still large enough to rival several continents worth of land.

Geography
In spite of its great longevity, Minauros the Sinking was forever slipping beneath the foul cesspool of the swamp, the foundations of the stony, weighty city slowly vanishing beneath the shifting muck. Only the unending efforts of a stream of slaves and petitioners prevented its final demise, but a little ground was lost to the cold mud every year. Buildings constantly shuddered and teetered, occassionally disappearing into the slime entirely or collapsing and killing the inhabitants. Black ooze rose between what passed for roads, the shifting and buckling streets of paving stones that regularly became impassable for wheeled vehicles, or failing that huge stones sunk into the swamp in need constant replacement as old ones were slowly but surely submerged.

This was not helped by the skin flaying hail that intermittingly terrorized the denizens of the city and plane at large on a less than hourly basis. While not able to actually harm them, the hail still pained the devils, and so the city's architects constructed huge stone canopies across its streets and laneways. Even this modicum of relief and protection was wrought with hazards however. The columns propping up these dilapidated canopies did so precariously, adding to the danger of fallen debris, and chunks of fallen brickwork were not returned to their proper place but instead used for one of the countless other reclamation projects of the city, primarily shoring up the sinking foundations.