KHYBER
The Khyber underground is made up of five interconnecting cave systems, each more than a dozen miles deeper than the last. In addition is the Blackwater Abyss, a vast interconnected web of spindly submerged tunnels that winds through the other layers.
The Midnight Realm - 2,002,000 mi²
The first coil of the Dragon Below is considered the refuge of the Mockery, the location where he fled the justice of Dol Dorn and Dol Arrah. This layer has many enormous open caverns and immense crevices leading to lower layers as well as enormous, strangely coiled columns stretching from the floor to the ceiling, fancifully called the chains of the dragon. The most extensive of the layers of Khyber, and the most frequently explored, the Midnight Realm is often simply called the Dragon Below. Most of the mortal races that call the underground home live in this layer, and while no layer of the Dragon Below is actually safe, this one is perhaps the most familiar to the citizens of the surface world.
The Mad Labyrinth - 1,813,000 mi²
The second coil of the Dragon Below, home of the Shadow and of madness, the Mad Labyrinth is the abode of the Daelkyr and other aberrations of Xoriat and Kythri. Relatively recent immigrants from an extra-planar incursion less than a millennia gone, the Daelkyr and their agents wage war with the deeper denizens of the Dragon Below, at the same time twisting all forms of the life they encounter according to their own bizarre aesthetics.
The Spearshards - 1,093,000 mi²
The third coil of the Dragon Below, domain of the Devourer, the Spearshards is riddled with massive Khyber dragonshards the size of mountains. This region has long decades of quiet punctuated by violent shifting and earthquakes, with new caverns opening and old ones shuddering closed in massive earthquakes. Hurricane force winds howl through the tunnels, lightning thunders between the rocks, and stone burns. Then, once again, all is quiet.
The Crypt of the Keeper - 710,000 mi²
The fourth coil of the Dragon Below, the Crypt of the Keeper is rumored to host all manner of undead and souls which the Keeper has snatched from their journey to Dolurrh. Large manifest zones to Mabar can be found in this region, so the undead are far from uncommon, but something stranger, and perhaps more horrifying, lurks in these dark and twisting tunnels.
The Burning Pit - 346,000 mi²
The fifth coil of the Dragon Below, home of the Fury in the minds of the populace of Khorvaire, the Burning Pit is a morass of bubbling metallic pools and hissing, cracking stones, rivers of lava, and massive burning lakes of fire. Home of burning fiends, large reptilian monsters, and icebreath remorhaz, the Burning Pit is hostile to most lesser forms of life. Even the trees catch fire at will, and will use their limbs like claws to tear apart any who venture too close.
The Orvault - 168,000 mi²
The final coil of the Dragon Below, and rumored resting place of Khyber herself, none know the true extent of these deepest caverns, for none have returned alive from them. It is said that a most wondrous treasure, the Or Infinite, lies clutched between the claws of a mountain-sized dragon resting in the heart of the world, granting immortality and apotheosis to any brave and powerful enough to steal it.
The Blackwater Abyss - 2,002,000 mi²
Considered separate from the coils of the Dragon Beneath and associated with the Traveler, the Blackwater Abyss is a vast interconnected web of spindly submerged tunnels that winds through the other layers, rather than its own specific layer; however, a large oceanic trench does exist between the Crypts and the Orvault, an icy sea of sleeping horrors beyond death and sanity.
At least, these are the mostly physical regions of the Dragon Below; much of the subterranean world is riddled with manifest zones and demiplanes, a thousand layers of infinite abyss for the myriad horrors conjured by the Overlords and their fiendish disciples.
Total (physical) subterranean space: 8,809,000 mi²
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