24 deep within the gardens of the planet elasvai , in the sanctuary of the shadows of their nearby citadel , the white marble and heavily vined fiendfarms , amid sprawling amaranthine fields of medicinal and psychedelic flora , beneath the seclusion of giant belladonna leaves , hidden behind the privacies of poisonous forests and mandalic topiaries , on a bed of diverse flowers , and wreathed in the smoke of lotus and opium , the tantric demons began their ritual .