Hell

**Hell** is a dimension of devils and demons.

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## History

Samael was arguably the most favored among the seven archangels. Yet, when a foothold was established and named the Kingdom of Heaven, Samael wished to rest and did not care to continue the crusade. Samael asked the Presence to bestow him a fraction of Heaven to reign over. When the Presence declined, Samael rebelled. He was defeated by his brethren. Despite Samael's insurgency, the Presence could not strip the favored son of his grace. Instead, Samael was exiled and left to settle in an area rich with infernal essence. Samael changed his name to Lucifer, learned to tame the infernal qualities of the area around him and named this place Hell.

Soon enough Lucifer was joined by his closest conspirators, who were punished much more harshly than their insurgency's leader. Stripped of their grace and original form, they were now beings known as demons. The demons were vindictive and eager to sow chaos. Lucifer realized this for what it was: opportunity. Using his cunning charisma, Lucifer rallied his followers and forged his own anchor to Earth, countering the Presence's efforts and enacting his own deals to lay claim to the souls of mankind.

Though most angels remained loyal to the Presence, even after the Fall, a small number of angels left Heaven to settle in Hell and swear fealty to Lucifer. Some of these angels were truly impressive, Lucifer remained the only archangel in Hell. This meant the others lacked the power to tame the energies in the same way and slowly began to change. Proudly, they took on one of Lucifer's epithets as a name for their race, calling themselves the devils.

When he was exiled Lucifer traveled to lonely infernal island that floated far below the Silver City, where the supernal residents would discard their unwanted possessions, there he found a demon named Pruflas. As Pruflas scrambled to hide, Lucifer spotted him and approached the nervous demon. Before the he could say a word, Pruflas panicked and dropped to his knee to pledge his house and his undying service to the angeld if only his life would be spared. The angel laughed and told the demon he had no interest in killing him, but was interested in buying the demon's gaudy tower — which he now longer needed to do as he eagerly accepted the demon's unprompted vow of service.

Though Pruflas had rushed into pledging his devotion to the archangel Lucifer, it was not something he would regret for long. Transforming the infernal wastes into the tower, transforming it to the Tower of Dis, the capital of Hell. The humble island that Pruflas had built his home upon became the infernal capital of Pandaemonium.

Eventually, a ceasefire of sorts was declared between Heaven and Hell. News of this infuriated the demons who still sought revenge against the Presence for their punishment. Of course, Lucifer knew the demons would escape from Hell and unleash chaos in their wake; and if Lucifer made a token effort to contain them, he did not incur the wrath of Heaven. This was the way it worked for thousands of years.

In 1983, Lucifer decided to abandon his claim to Hell. In an effort to appease the Lords of Hell, Lucifer had his wings severed and the feathers and tissue divided up among his lords, granting each of them incredible occult power. There isn't a King of Hell, but among the most important infernals are Lucifer's daughter Aradia, and the Triumvirate of Hell.

While the situation seems to be under control, tensions between devils and demons become more and more hostile. There are several civil wars between minor kingdoms and city-statess. As of 2013 Satan has all but usurped control of Hell entirely.

In 2016 on November 28th the wing pieces that Lucifer gave to the Lords of Hell disappears as the Prophet Chuck Shurley accidently used his Ministry of Angels to restore Lucifer's wings this was all a part of a plan by the Archangel Saraquael and The Presence, as without the wing pieces to create a stalemate the lords of Hell would to fight among themselves and Hell would fall into Civil War this was to prevent Hell from attacking Heaven when they learn that God had left.

### Demons

While they might have different origins, most demons are foul and malicious creatures who live to torment mortal beings. Demons delight in making others suffer and engage in torture, murder and any foul deed that will bring about suffering or chaos, for it is this entropic energy that they feed on. Greater demons are typically more intelligent, conniving and treacherous than their lesser brethren and typically use lesser demons as their minions, and may use humans and other mortals as pawns in elaborate games of corruption, deception, and treachery. It would be a mistake to think that such greater demons are hiding behind the ranks of these minions, as greater demons also tend to be incredibly powerful and deadly in their own right.

### Devils

Another faction that claims Hell as its home are the supernatural beings known as the devils. Unlike the demons who favor the traditional hellscape of fiery pits, charred earth, rivers of blood, and volcanic rock, the devils tend to be found in Hell's outskirts where the biomes are more diverse, often consisting of kingdoms covered in forests, snow, golden deserts, or consisting of more fantastical elements like seas of glowing green ink, forests of glass, or towering fungal jungles. The devils themselves consist of former angels who were exiled after Lucifer's rebellion as an alternative of being stripped of their grace and punished, or angels who did not follow Lucifer but nevertheless chose to flee later.

Unlike demons, devils still have their angelic grace and their natural physical form, but have had both changed by infernal energy. Some have retained much of their angelic features, like feathered wings, but most have taken on a more hellish appearance with scaled skin, bat-like wings, hooked or spiked tails, and claws. Whether they appear angelic or not, most devils have kept their sense of honor. Many tend to be benevolent in their own way, having simply chosen to reside in Hell for the greater freedom or in pursuit of a less confining lifestyle than that which is tolerated in Heaven.

Devils usually do not get on well with demons. The two races often squabble at social functions and engage in constant territorial skirmishes. Though the demons are somewhat united under the banner of the Demonic Triumvirate, the devils have a feudal kingdom consisting of sixty-six Great Houses of Hell, each ruling over their own domain and swearing fealty to Lucifer. For the most part, the devils rarely engage in much in-fighting between their own kind, but there are some considerable exceptions to this and most Houses have at least one to three rivalries with other devilish nobility stemming from past conflicts and scandals.

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* While Devils use currency Demons prefer to trade and barter with memories.
* Only one demon joined Lucifer: Mazikeen.
* The Star of Hell is called the Inferno. It is one of several living stars in the Void. It is Inferno that gives much of Hell its signature red glow, charges the naturally inert essence clouds with infernal energy as they drift near it, and is the very source of the word 'Infernal'. With Lucifer having left Hell, Satan — as Lucifer's legal representative — now holds a pact made with the sentient star to lend its immense power to the King of Hell. Though, the First of the Fallen has yet to be crowned as King, with this incredible power at his disposal he is King in all but name.
* Amenadiel acts as the Warden of Hell.
* The Raven Legion functions as Hell's militarized police force. Though Nergal is the general of the Legion, its day-to-day operations are overseen by Shamash. Shamash also personally handles the most important investigations and inquiries.
* Before they were dissolved and replaced with the Triumvirate of Hell the Annunaki Court over sew the disputes that arose between devils and demons. There were seven judges, three that were true annunaki (Devil/Demon hybrids), then there was always one demon judge and one devil. The other two were usually gods of death or Stygian daimons. Eventually, Nergal had one of their own testify to corruption, which led to the whole organization being dissolved and many of its members executed. The Court was never able to reform as the king of hell was the only one who could appoint new judges and when Lucifer tried, he was met with stalling tactics by the princes and lords in his court. The Demons didn't approve a devil to join the court and the devils didn't approve a demon. No one could agree on any of the actual true annunaki appointments as there were so few annunaki with a remarkable pedigree.
* Lords of Hell made a deal with Apokalypse and provide them with souls of people with powerful psychic signatures.
* Currently Aradia schemes for a seat on the Triumvirate of Hell.
* During the Great Influx vasts amounts of power flooded the Void and gave it vast deposits of power.
* **Notes from Roy on the opinion of incest within Hell:** *Demons don't have biology. Instead of being a biological collection of organic matters and cells, demons and angels, as well as daimons and fae, are an esoteric collective made of magic and motes of essence. They can simulate biology in a lot of ways, but they don't have blood. They have ichor. They don't breathe air, they respire essence. They can eat and drink, but doing so is just used to convert that matter into essence. They can't live in places without magic for long periods of time. Anyway, all that said, what is incest to them? Using another ephemeral race as an example, most angels are not born from the coupling of angels. They are born from the Void, hatching from solidified essence crystals. But angels can mate and can give birth to live offspring. Heaven uses a familial social structure. They call the Presence their "Father" and refer to one another as "brother" and "sister". Castiel and Balthazar had a child together. Does that make Eithne the product of incest? I mean, from the view of us humans, an argument could be made that is the case. However, angels wouldn't see it that way in this instance. However, as Lucifer and Saraquael are both the direct children of the Presence, created through mating and born of their shared mother, I think even angels would regard that as rather taboo. But does that stuff happen? Yeah. It does. It happened in human culture, too... for most of human history, in fact. So, this is my long-winded way of saying that among demons, it happens. It happens less with the more civilized demons - like those who have lived in human society and have become adapted to human cultural expectations, but on the other hand, when you get to Hell, where science and technology takes a backseat to magic and tradition and has for millions of years, their culture is not progressive and is rather stagnant. They don't drive cars in Hell, they ride animals or fly with manifested wings or on magical flying objects. With that primitive culture, comes primitive social mores and practices. In a recent VOX, we could see Shamash is not keen on incest - has he slept with his sister before? Yes. He has. Did he enjoy it? Maybe - but does he regret it? Absolutely. Shamash is trying to be a civilized demon in a primitive society. He's trying to be a better class of demon. He's trying to be the demon he wants to see Hell produce. He looks to his daimonic heritage as proof that ephemerals can be more structured, but he's forced to live among demons where he constantly has to do stuff he is uncomfortable with. Meanwhile, Ruby has a totally different view. She embraces her demonic side. She has actively seduced Shamash before. When she originally did it, there was probably a measure of needing comfort from someone that would understand her, someone that she felt she could trust implicitly because he always loved her unconditionally and she had burned so many bridges and stabbed so many in the back that she was probably paranoid to have an emotionally complex intimate relationship with anyone other than Shamash. However now uses this as a way to tease him and torment the one person who has ever truly loved her. Ruby embraces demon culture - the worst parts of it. With Shamash and Ruby, they are outliers. I would say most demons who were born of the same mother would not engage in this behavior. They would regard it much the same as humans did - a couple hundred years ago. Demons who live in cities and are more progressive view it as primitive, backward, and icky. While tribal demons in remote areas might still do it in various degrees, but probably mostly out of tradition or necessity rather than any sort of preference. Again, though, most demons are actually born out of the Void itself. We just see those with family as primary characters as they have closer ties to Earth.*

## Links and References

* Appearances of Hell
* Residents of Hell

1. ↑ Network Files: Pruflas
2. ↑ Network Files: Lucifer Morningstar
3. ↑ VOX Box: Hell Hath No Fury 6
4. ↑ VOX Box: Hell of a Deal 9
5. ↑ VOX Box: Fall From Grace Epilogue
6. ↑ E27" The Infernal Houses
7. ↑ VOX Box: Hell Hath No Fury 7
8. ↑ RepCap: First of the Fallen
9. ↑ Network Files: Amenadiel
10. ↑ Network Files: Shamash
11. ↑ VOX Box: Hell Hath No Fury 1
12. ↑ VOX Box: Weird Worlds 17
13. ↑ Network Files: Aradia Morningstar 2
14. ↑ VOX Box: Continue? 2...
15. ↑ Notes from Roy on the opinion of incest within Hell