Hell

Hell is the Domain of the Current Devil in Teneta. Lorded over by King and Queen Lucifer and Lilith Morningstar respectively. Originally used to torment the souls of the damned, after Michael came to power and locked Heaven, Lucifer opened Hell up to all who have passed. Making Heaven into a form of.. Resort. Originally, only those. Contrary to popular belief, Purgatory is not part of Lucifer's domain.

## Overview

Hell is described as the most terrifying, horrible plane of existence where the wicked and sinful are punished for eternity (or at least for immensely long periods of time) for their sins and often in the most horrific of ways. Hell, in reality is not so horrible. Not after Lucifer changed it completely in the wake of the closing of Heaven by Michael.

Hell is a realm that is far larger than the human world, and that houses different regions, kingdoms and layers where various demon lords, demonic nobles and rulers rule much like the global hierarchy of Earth.

Hell is similar to Purgatory but differs in the fact that Hell is usually seen as a permanent state opposed to Purgatory, which is traditionally seen as a place of temporary punishment before being admitted into Paradise. Purgatory, however, is also known to be another form of Hell for the monsters of Earth.

## Description

Hell looks incredibly different in different sections. To quantify it into one description would do it a disservice.

# Circles of Hell

Unlike the Seven Heavens, Hell is a homogeneous dimension. Its inhabitants divided the dimension into different realms, called "Rings", namely:

## Limbo

At the end of Limbo was where the souls of the damned find the Judge and Jury who would decide your ring. Afterwards, stands the Hellmouth which acts like a torturous gate for the rest of Hell.

At the end of Limbo was where the souls of the damned find the Judge and Jury. The Hellmouth which acted as a torturous gate for the rest of Hell in times before the renovation. The gate is open for all to use now.

## Gluttony

The Great Worm, the monstrous double-headed beast of Hell, ravenously guards the gluttons lying in the freezing mire, mauling and flaying them with his claws as they howl like dogs. The gluttons grovel in the mud by themselves, sightless and heedless of their neighbors.

In the time between the gluttonous and post-renovation, this Ring also resided sinners with environment-related crimes and had polluted the environment. The souls of drug-dealers and drug-addicts are also often sent here to be punished.

## Greed

The main punishment for this Ring is to be boiled alive in the molten gold below as they are condemned for hoarding too closely or spending too freely with the riches, with every time a new golden statue being created, the damned soul would be resurrected so that they have to endure the suffering over and over again.
Echoing throughout the endless caverns is the line "Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe", which reinforces the sinners' belief in this being the home of The Devil and his minions, and that was his worshippers praising him in some strange demonic tongue.

## Wrath

The entire Ring resembles an endless sea of swampy and filthy black water, which is noted to be polluted by the abandoned hopes and unfulfilled dreams of the deceased. The water is noted to be boiling hot, yet is freezing cold to touch and could "restore the body and the mind at a terrible cost". Underneath the black water are dangerous demonic sea monsters of all shapes and forms, all having jet-black scales and gleaming blood-red eyes.

In Anger, the damned are cursed to drown in the marshes in the swampy, stinking waters of the Black River, where actively wrathful fight each other viciously on the surface of the slime, while the sullen lie beneath the water, withdrawn.
The main punishment for this place is to be forever stuck underneath the Black River, never to be released. The exact information about what waiting for the sinners under the water is only known to the wardens of the Marsh themselves, as "anger is one the most unpredictable and flickering emotions" and most punishments here are "easy to change based on the Angels' current moods".

## Heresy

This ring resembles a colossal temple of an unknown deity, with images and statues of famous pagan deities, all demonized and/or modified to become twisted and disgusting. Underneath the temple is a giant tomb, both endless and bottomless, contained within are countless numbers of sinners being punished for their sins.
In this Ring, the heretics such as Epicureans (those who believe that "the soul died with the body") are trapped alongside those who denied the existence of the Abrahamic God and his Angels. It was also the hellish afterlife of those who worshipped the false idols and gods, as well as those who committed crimes for their cults.
Those who made deals and/or connections with Demons will all ended here, no matter how little their interactions and sins are.

## Violence

The Outer layer holds those violent against people and property, and the souls here are immersed in Phlegethon, a river of boiling blood and fire. Lilim patrol here, and shoot the souls with arrows should they try to get out of the river.
The Middle layer holds the Forest of Suicides, where the souls are turned into gnarled trees and shrubs, then fed upon by Harpies.
The Inner layer is where blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers reside in a desert of flaming sand and fiery flakes rain from the skies.

## Fraud

The Eighth Circle was a large funnel of stone shaped like an amphitheater around which ran a series of ten deep, narrow, concentric ditches called Trenches. Within these ditches are punished those guilty of Simple Fraud. From the foot of the Great Cliff to the Well (which forms the neck of the funnel) are large spurs of rock, like umbrella ribs or spokes, which serve as bridges over the ten ditches.

Malebolge is divided into ten trenches. Each Trench holds a different kind of fraudulent souls:

Trench 1: Panderers and seducers would march in separate lines in opposite directions, whipped by demons.
Trench 2: Flatterers were steeped in human excrement, which represents the words they produced.
Trench 3: Those who committed simony were placed head-first in holes in the rock with flames burning on the soles of their feet.
Trench 4: Sorcerers, astrologers, and false prophets here had their heads twisted around on their bodies backward, referring primarily to attempts to see into the future by forbidden means.
Trench 5: Corrupt politicians were immersed in a lake of boiling pitch, which represents the sticky fingers and dark secrets of their corrupt deals.
Trench 6: Hypocrites listlessly walked along wearing gilded lead cloaks, which represent the falsity behind the surface appearance of their actions.
Trench 7: Thieves were pursued and bitten by snakes and lizards. Just as they stole other people's substance in life, their very identity becomes subject to theft here, and the snake bites make them undergo various transformations.
Trench 8: Fraudulent advisers or evil counselors were concealed within individual flames. These were not people who gave false advice, but people who used their position to advise others to engage in fraud.
Trench 9: A sword-wielding demon would hack at the Sowers of Discord, dividing parts of their bodies as in life they divided others. As they make their rounds the wounds heal, only to have the demon tear apart their bodies again.
Trench 10: Various sorts of falsifiers (fake alchemists, counterfeiters, perjurers, and impostors), who are a "disease" on society, were themselves afflicted with different types of diseases.

Central Well of Fraud
By the end of the Fraud is the Central Well, at the bottom of which lies the Ninth and final Ring of Hell. The classical and biblical Giants – who perhaps symbolize pride and other spiritual flaws lying behind acts of treachery – stand perpetual guard inside the well-pit, their legs embedded in the banks of the Ninth Circle while their upper halves rise above the rim and can be visible from the eight circle.

## Treachery

There were four concentric zones, or "rounds", to Treachery, each in descending order of seriousness, from betrayal of family ties, to betrayal of community ties, betrayal of guests, and betrayal of liege lords.
* Round 1: Named Caïna, after Cain, who killed his brother. Traitors to kindred are here immersed in the ice up to their chins.
* Round 2: Named Antenora, after Antenor of Troy, who according to medieval tradition, betrayed his city to the Greeks. Traitors to political entities, such as parties, cities, or countries, are located here and imprisoned in the same way as the traitors in Caïna.
* Round 3: Named Ptolomaea, after Ptolemy, son of Abubus, who invited Simon Maccabaeus and his sons to a banquet and then killed them. Traitors to their guests are punished here, lying supine in the ice, which covers them, except for their faces. They are punished more severely than the previous traitors, since the relationship to guests is an entirely voluntary one.
* Round 4: Named Judecca, after Judas Iscariot, Biblical betrayer of Christ. Here are the traitors to their lords and benefactors. All of the sinners punished within are completely encapsulated in ice, distorted in all conceivable positions. In the middle of Hell is a Khaos god known as Mephistopheles frozen in ice, chewing on three of the worst human beings.

This is the circle that Pandemonium is located.

## A few other sectors of Hell that are not primary Rings.

Sheol - The outskirts of Limbo. The threshold between Hell and Teneta's neverending embrace.
Tophet - A location in Treachery that was designed for people who committed sin of any kind on children. They would be emerged in the "The Fires of Perdition", A pain, even Lucifer fears.
Jahannam - Is the bottom most layer, beyond all other layers. It is quiet, eerily quiet. Below it is simple bedrock, void stone. Nothing. Nothing is below it.
Jannah - The renovation was not the first time Lucifer tried to make Hell less.. infernal. He created Jannah as a surrogate Garden of Eden for Lilith, who spends her time in the pocket realm. It has now been opened to most demonkind.
Sijjin - Is the layer that holds the Khaos Gods trapped in Hell. Unlike Carcere, no humans will be found here.
Jinnestan - Is a sublayer, as a parallel to Limbo, given to the Jinn of Flames and Light after their realm was destroyed by Unknown means,

## Inhabitants

Hell is full of a immense number of beings, races, species and cultures. To make things easier, I will be branching them into their own page.

* Demonkind
	+ Lilim
	+ Neverborn
	+ Nameless ones
	+ Ska'Vin
	+ Mazzikin
	+ Shayatin
	+ Imps
	+ Se'irim
	+ Masterma
	+ Qliphoth
	+ Succubus
	+ Cecaelia
	+ Incubus
	+ Ala
	+ Ravingus
	+ Lilifa
* Khaoskin
* Fallen Angels