Entering the Maelstrom

[Bastion Girl]

Ok so I have a villain who is trying to basically open a gate into the abyss and bring the demon lords into the Material realm effectively trying to destroy galarion, But I dont know how to go about doing this... from what iv researched it seems you can access the Abyssal realms through the Maelstrom but how do you get into Maelstrom? do you need to create a gate of some sort? and if so what materials do you need?

[Bastion Girl]

He is a Anti paladin who uses a magical ring to put week willed people and savage races under his influence, and has managed to ally the Orcs, Gnoll, and a few other bestial races under his banner as well as a small group of Drow from how house of Caldrana and even managed to whisper int he ear of a Dwarven high king Borogrim the hale, who he has had one of his chief advisors drugging him to make him more susceptible to control.

[JRR Tolkien]

This sounds vaguely familiar

[Todd Stewart]

It's not so much that you need to access the Maelstrom in order to access the Abyss, but that within the Maelstrom you can stumble across natural rifts into the Abyss - presumably a lingering side effect of the proteans' ancient discovery-and-or-creation of the Abyss (naughty naughty Chorus of Malignant Symmetry).

Take some inspiration for how the Worldwound on Golarion was created. The region that would become the Worldwound started with a not yet ascended to godhood Aroden defeating the cult of the demon lord Deskari, so the region already had a previous connection to an archfiend, and presumably a bit of a weakened fabric, metaphysically speaking. Centuries later the Worldwound was brought into being by a follower of Deskari named Areelu Vorlesh on the Material Plane in conjunction with Deskari in the Abyss, though it might not have been possible except that after Aroden's death the linkage between the planes became more easily established. Simplification of the history there, but it works.

Make a strong, fantastic backstory to justify the creation of such a linkage to the Abyss. Sky is the limit for how to add awesome history and such. :)

[Bastion Girl]

Well I was considering changing my villains motives a bit, he simply wants to open a gate to the maelstrom for some mysterious purpose, He is a agent of chaos and cannot stand law and order, he wants to access this realm cause he believes it to be devine chaotic nature.

To do so I think he should unearth some maelstrom crystals from underneath the Dwarven capital of highhalm in a underground portion of the Darklands and to steal a tomb from the elves that details how to open a gate to another plane "as they have done it before" and to use the stones to power his catalyst somehow, im trying to work out all the details to make it all lore friendly.