The Eight Inferno Rings

Even the most daring of adventurers fear the Eight Hells, entering is a fools gamble that very few are mad enough to take, as such, most of information on this chapter has been taken from various demon books rewritten by many warlocks, so has for the validity of this chapter I cannot personally confirm, has I have directly seen very few of what these forsaken lands have to offer. But it is my job has a Great Explorer to try to give future generations more insight into the many worlds beyond our own, as such I will try to give to the reader what little I have gathered.

That being said I strongly discourage any attempts to further explore these lands, but knowing the hearth of a true adventurer, I know that such warning are useless.

  The version of Hell that is found today is an altered version of the hell before the betrayal of Igalleth.

  When your soul is doomed to Hellish Inferno you’ll be sent to one of the first seven rings, seeing has Igalleth rarely caries out punishment directly anymore. The ring you end up in may be specific to your biggest sin, but will most likely be the ring that can offer the most ironic and painful punishment based on your living life. All hope must be abandoned has you pass throw the gates of hell, your only salvation is for Kefka to directly come to take back your soul, but even then were you’ll end up is unknown even to many gods.

  It is said that if those souls who willingly enter Hell and survives the journey throw the 8 rings, meeting Igalleth himself will be given a great reward, of course such feat is considered madness and no one knows the final result of the journey, for there is no documented account of someone making such journey.
  Each ring has a specific number, and the higher the number, the smaller the size of the ring

### The Outer Ring

  These are the lads that reside outside the first ring, it’s a purely chaotic land were only savage demons and lost souls resided. It seems to serve has a hunting ground for Beast Demons, and to make way for the great wall that surrounds and protects the first ring from outside invasion.

### The Gate of Hell

  The first Ring of Hell is surrounded by a great wall that extends deep into the sky. Possessing only a single gate guarded by the great demons.

### The 1th Ring

A wasteland of lawlessness, where the Mad Sleeper “Belphegor”, Demon Lord of Sloth resides. It is said that he sleeps at the bottom of a pit during most of the year, only waking up from his throne when the first ring is disturbed, albeit from a successful breach of the forces of Kairos into the first ring, or when a powerful force wishes to awaken him. But beware, this Lord is not a morning person, and deadly grumpiness is sure to come your way.

This layer of hell is much different from all the others, the 1º Ring is the first line of defence against the successful forces of Kairos, added to the fact that Belphegor seems to dislike all other existences that are not part of himself, leads to the land being somewhat baron, only populated by the chaotic “Blind Demons” that spawn and are one with Belphegor, “The Gate Front” a collection of buildings, demons and flying fortress station closed to gate used in the Demon War efforts ,and “The Waste”, mortal souls who were sent to hell and deemed “to useless” and so were sent to the first ring to either become stronger, fuel the flying fortress and other weapons in the war, be Belphegor´s next breakfast, or even serve has a meat shield for invading forces.

Ironically enough weakness in this case is somewhat rewarded, since The Demon Lord of Sloth is not interested in torturing and carnage and merely wishes to slumber, souls in this plane are usually left alone to their devices, as long as they manage to avoid the Blind Demons, and the natural cataclysms of the land. Serving has great guides and information givers if you have business in such a place.

### The 2th Ring

This ring is ruled by “Revel” Demon Lord of Gluttony. It is in this ring that powerful demons and souls are kept, on an endless feeding spree.

It is in here that souls who exhibit some level of high prowess are kept, as they are forced to fight futile battles each day with hungry demons. That pain and power is absorbed by the ring until the soul finally breaks and is completely devoured by the demons.

This Ring functions then has the second greatest source of power for the Infernal Lands, and Igalleth´s cause.

### The 3th Ring

  In the third ring is when things finally start getting more organized. It is in here that many structures owned by high ranking demons are found.

This ring is mainly used to create and organize the large demon armies and weapons. Although there can still be found many souls who are used in the training and empowerment of demons.

All of the demons in these ring obey to the direct orders of “Nestro” Demon Lord of Wrath, who is said to be the strongest out of the 7 Demon Lords in terms of raw power and tactical prowess.

### The 4th Ring

  The Demon Lord that oversees this ring is known has “Keyon” Demon Lord of Pride, also know has “The Demon Lord of Pain”, the second most powerful of the Demon Lords. This ring specializes in the punishment of souls, and more specific and ironic punishments, serving as the biggest provider of power to the realm.

  Keyon was and is very devoted to Igalleth´s cause, spending a lot of his time in creating some of the strongest creatures in the realm, even before the great betrayal, such has being the father of “Narcia” who´s status was later upgraded to Demon Lord.

### The 5th Ring

This ring is covered in a dense dark florets with many strange demons and a grand castle where the more important demons live. In here souls are tortured to serve the depraved wishes of demons and clients.

Home to the succubus and incubus, the top spies, assassins and pact binders of the demon forces.

The demon that rules over this ring is the Queen of the succubus “Narcia” Demon Lord of Lust. Narcia is belived to be the second Demon Lord of Lust, but not much is known about the first Demon Lord. What is known is that Narcia is actualy the mother of "Koltar the Exulted", making Keyon his grandfather.

### The 6th Ring

This ring is were almost all of the demon weapon and artifacts are manufactured, ruled by “Levian” Demon Lord of Envy. Souls that are tortured on these realms are tortured only for experimentation.

The ring is made of a gigantic maze, with long and complicated halls connecting all laboratories, rooms and libraries, making it the most difficult ring to navigate in.

### The 7th Ring

“Medurion” Demon Lord of Greed is the ruler of the 7th ring of hell. He is responsible for the keeping of magical Demon artifacts, and the keeping and forging of pacts, being the demon lord with the highest number of pacts done with Warlocks.

This ring is composed of a grand city were, strangely enough, you can find some non-demons creatures or punished souls walking along the streets. Some powerful warlocks actually plane shift to this town to meet with other warlocks, and acquire special artifacts and trade alliances.

The only method of punishing souls that is given out in this ring is making selected souls work has shopkeepers and to offer other painful services.

### The 8th Ring

  This Ring is where Igalleth “The Emperor of Demons” lives. This ring is constituted only by the Emperor´s gigantic castle, were important reunions and notorious important artifacts are kept.
The contents of this hellish palace are unknown, one can only have nightmares on what kind of evils start in this very place…