Isle of Demons

Off the west coast of Anostos lies the dreaded Isle of Demons. If frightened sailors are to be believed, the sea around it boils and churns as if stirred by invisible forces, and at evening dreadful, inhuman screams ring from the island, sometimes audible as far as 12 miles off.

For all its mysteries, the island's inhabitants are well known to students of the arcane: the Hantu, an evil race often called earth-bound demons. The great First Age sorcerer Korak writes of both the Hantu and the island in his famous Guide to the Lower Planes. The isle may hold hundreds of Hantu of differing strength, and being savage by nature they threaten each other as much as the island's animals; their fierce battles are said to cause the terrible shrieks. Because Hantu hate being trapped on the material plane, some will bargain their service to a mighty spellcaster in return for any device or spell that can send them home, though such a pact seldom runs past one month for each level the caster has. That is why some magicians occasionally visit the island.