New Heresy

New Heresy is the third major location in Find the Koishis II. It is accessed from the Hakurei Shrine's rear elevator with a minimum of 20000 KC needed to access.
==Overview ==
New Heresy is FTK2's answer to a Der Vindicrater style level; it is a half-sunken city that appears to be situated in the underworld, given the presence of a massive sea of lava. The aesthetics of New Heresy evoke a sort of "brimstone New York City"Unrelated, but the third unmade Ghostbusters movie was going to have the Ghostbusters fight the spooky spirits in ManHELLtan. Just thought I'd give the heads up., hence the name. Overhead, the red sun over paradise casts it's deathly glow. Strangely, a large building emanates 'rays' akin to a lighthouse in the distance.
The map currently consists of a L-shaped intersection that breaks near the middle to lead towards a building containing a second elevator, point-locked by 30000 KC. It leads to a bridge on the other end of the map that ends with a park, directly beneath the sun.
A major difference between New Heresy and Der Vindicrater is it's lack of distracting memetic imagery, which it makes up for with a few references here and there. There are also 'hand-shrines' with numerous picture-frames of vile Touhou characters nearby; for example, the first one sighted is dedicated to Seiga Kaku. Another difference is that New Heresy appears to be set away from Former Hell or is at least a considerable distance, given that the Palace of the Earth Spirits is nowhere to be seen currently.
V.A9Ba added several new aspects of New Heresy's layout. For one, the plaza with the Hand Shrines now has a visitable lobby for a place known as the Hotel du Lave, while the elevator to the bridge has been reworked into some sort of an apartment complex called the Pitfall. Hecatia Lapislazuli can be met here, although she is currently non-interactable.
New Heresy reuses Fahrenheit 10,000, the track that played in the Palace of the Earth Spirits in FTK1, as it's ambient music.
== Lore ==
New Heresy is part of a series of underworld-wide infrastructure redevelopment plans apparently led or directed by Hecatia Lapislazuli, being more successful than the project that failed to revitalize the Violence layer. A note that can be found next to The Pitfall implies that the point of the presumed "New Heresy Project", and likely the renaissance affecting Hell's society as a whole, is to give sinners a second chance at the afterlife.
==Trivia== 
*Because you visit New Heresy via elevator, you have technically rode a hellevator.
*Names considered for New Heresy included simply returning it to "Der Vindicrater", alongside "New Pandemonium" and "Dis Arae".
**As stated before on Der Vindicrater's page, "Der Vindicrater" is a portmanteau of "vindicator" (or "vindication") and "crater", whilst "Der" is the German equivalent of "the". So, in layman's terms, the place's name means "The Vindication Crater".
** Dis is the capital city of Hell in Dante's Divine Comedy, which encompasses all of the sixth layer and is an environment designed to punish those who partook in heresy whilst alive. It is named after the Roman god Dis Pater. 
*** "Dis Arae" is most likely a pun on "Dies Irae", the opening to a Latin hymn about the Last Judgement of God.
**Pandemonium is the capital city of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost, as well as the name of Kraz's favorite boss track from ULTRAKILL.
*Despite being named after New York City (and featuring substantial Manhattan inspiration), the place can also be considered a very accurate representation of both Detroit, Philadelphia and Chicago, all together.
*The Hotel du Lave is not a reference to the web-series Hazbin Hotel.I said so.
*Dying in the lava pit instantly kills the player as opposed to hurting them and sending them back to a predesignated position, though one can argue you can't fucking survive swimming in lava.
*The beacon of light present on one of the taller buildings is intended to evoke imagery present in the level "Light Up the Night" (or 7-2) of the video game ULTRAKILL.
*The KoishBox theme based on New Heresy seems to imply that it is set in the same general vicinity as the level, as one of the distant towersThis building to be more specific:
 roughly resembles the lighthouse building.
*There is a presence of Christian imagery despite Touhou's primarily Eastern setti- My brother in Amaterasu-Oomikame, Sariel happened.
==References==
Category:Locations
Category:Find the Koishis 2