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**Hell**, also called **Downstairs**, **Hades**, **The Basement**, **The Pit**, **The Hot Box**, **MotherShip**, **The Deep Fryer**, **The Underworld** or even **Perdition** by angels, is the spiritual realm for punishment and pain of the afterlife, as well as a prison for some inhuman creatures.

Human souls who are sent to Hell are tormented until their humanity is stripped away and they become demons. Hell is said to be so terrible that even the demons, with the exception of Alastair, hate and fear it.

## Appearance and characteristics

Hell is described to be a place so bad that even its own inhabitants fear and despise it. Only one demon, Alastair, so far has been described to enjoy Hell. Ruby described Hell as not being able to remember who you used to be. Her earthbound life existed during the 14th century and even with the plague erasing lives, she still desired the memory of the human she used to be. While possessing Sam, Meg described it as a prison of "flesh, and bone, and blood, and fear," that one of the reasons demons keep on returning to Earth is because they themselves do not want to suffer the tortures of Hell.

During his time in Hell, Brandon is seen connected to "racks," long dark chains that look very similar to meat hooks, which are provided as extra torture, while demons such as Alastair use "razors" to torment souls further. It could be assumed that Hell, much like Heaven, is also a varying landscape. When the demon Crowley became King, he drastically altered Hell changing it into a never-ending queue. In recent times, Crowley seems to have returned Hell to its former more terrifying and savage state. However, there appear to be multiple levels of Hell, each one bearing a different landscape. Time in Hell is about 120 times faster than time on Earth. Despite the time difference, there is cellular reception in Hell's domain, allowing inhabitants to call or text inhabitants on Earth or other dimensions, even from the furthest reaches of Hell. Hell, like Heaven, can allow humans to see Archangelsin ways that doesn't burn out their eyes.

## Access and location

Hell is a realm often pictured to be underneath the Earth. Whether this is true has not yet been proven. Rather, it does not seem to be fixed and could be accessed from different locations. One well known passageway between Earth and Hell is the Devil's Gate located in southern Wyoming. It was sealed by Samuel Colt with the use of a heavy door with a devil's trap lock, unlocked only by the Colt, and by placing a massive devil's trap consisting of five frontier c

hurches connected to each other by pure iron railroads. This portal was capable of releasing demons who are normally unable to escape hell unaided, such as Lilith, or the souls of humans who were being tortured in Hell, such as John North.

Lucifer's Cage is a special part of Hell designed solely for the purpose to keep the fallen archangel Lucifer incapacitated. The Cage is located in the furthest reaches of Hell, possibly Limbo. It is found beneath St. Mary's Convent in Ilchester, Maryland. Another known way of entering the Cage is through the rings of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Angels are capable of forcing their way into Hell, as evidenced when they laid siege to the gates of Hell to save Brandon. Fairies also claim that they know backdoors to Hell that not even angels know. This was never proven, though. Demons, regardless of their location on earth, are forced directly back into Hell once exorcised.

Rogue reapers are able to secretly access Hell through a portal located in Purgatory that acts as a "backdoor." Any being can use this door both ways as long as they are aware of its location on both ends and have access to Purgatory.

In the furthest reaches of Hell, there is a place called Limbo. Crowley described it as being where he sent unruly souls for timeouts. The realm is completely engulfed with countless thunderstorms in the middle of darkness and void, adorned by countless scattered skeletons that led to an empty cage. In this place, Sam, Crowley, and Amelia performed a ritual to safely summon Lucifer.

## History

### Creation of the first Demon and the Princes of Hell

It has never been clearly stated who made Hell and when exactly it came to be, but most likely it was God who created it, as evidence by the amount of control and knowledge he has over it. In defiance of God, as the Mark corrupted him further, the archangel Lucifer snuck into the Garden and corrupted humanity. Lucifer then asked Michael, his older brother, to stand by him in conflict and the war, however Michael refused and beat him down, on God's order, starting a war in the process. To spite God, Lucifer then corrupted a human soul into the first demon called Lilith. Lucifer then began to create Hell's hierarchy, as he made the first generation of demons after Lilith, called the Princes of Hell which he created himself. They were named Azazel, Ramiel, Dagon and Asmodeus.

At some point later, Asmodeus sought to please his creator by releasing the Shedim, "things so dark and base God himself would not allow them into the light." Asmodeus believed that he could train and use the Shedim despite Lucifer fearing them. Lucifer instead punished him by inflicting two scars upon Asmodeus' face. Lucifer then re-imprisoned the Shedim.

### Creation of The Knights of Hell

One of the first sons of man, Abel, was attempting to pray to God. In actuality he was praying to Lucifer, making his soul hellbound. His older brother Cain refused to let this happen and made a pact with Lucifer: to have his soul in Hell for Abel's to be delivered to Heaven. Lucifer agreed on the condition that Cain would murder his brother and bear The Mark, a curse which Satan had and desired to pass onward. Cain killed Abel who was then sent to Heaven. To avoid the corruption of the mark Cain killed himself only to be resurrected as a demon and the first Knight of Hell. Lucifer handpicked the rest of the Knights of Hell  and had Cain train and lead them.

### Imprisonment of The Devil

God, realizing the threat that Lucifer posed to humanity, made a cage in the depths of Hell that contained over 600 seals on it. Lucifer was then defeated and thrown into Lucifer's Cage by Michael. He was not seen by any demon for thousands of years, and those who knew of existence gave up looking for him; most others thought of him only as a myth. The only demon who did not give up searching was Azazel.

### Azazel's plan

As Lilith was "Neck deep in the pit", the next in line for the throne was the Prince of Hell Azazel. After years of searching, Azazel finally located the doorway to Lucifer's prison in 1972 and contacted the fallen archangel by slaughtering a mass of nuns in a Church. Lucifer instructed Azazel with two tasks, important in his plan to escape his Cage: freeing Lilith from Hell, and raising a very special child strong enough to kill Lilith and break the final seal, releasing the Devil himself.

### Breaking the Seals

Brandon North spent four months in Earth time in Hell, but he stated that time passed differently there, and for him it was more like forty years. This made three days on Earth roughly equivalent to a year in Hell. During this time, Brandon was tortured mercilessly, being ripped apart and then put back together at the end of each day so that he could be torn apart again. At the end of every day, Alastair would offer Brandon freedom from torture if he would start torturing souls himself, as an effort in the demons' plan to free their creator Luciferfrom his cage. After thirty years of refusing this offer, Brandon finally broke and started torturing other souls. This resulted in the first of the 66 Seals of Lucifer's Cage falling. When the Angels learned of what was happening, they laid siege to Hell to rescue Brandon. An angel named Castielpersonally pulled Brandon out of Hell, but was too late as the first seal had already been broken. After the fall of the first seal, the first demon Lilith and the other demons started to break more and more seals, the Devil getting closer to escape each time. Unbeknownst to most angels, demons, and humans, the archangels Michael and Raphael and the angel Zachariah wanted the apocalypse to happen as they believed it was destiny for Michael to fight Lucifer. Their plan worked, as Lucifer's destined vessel, Sam killed Lilith, unknowingly breaking the final seal of Lucifer's cage setting him free, and ultimately starting the Apocalypse.

### Lucifer's Rise

As the apocalypse begun and Lucifer's arrival on Earth, the Whore of Babylon emerged from Hell also and the Cambion Jesse Turner grew in strength. Demons began to dream for the first time since they were human.

Before Lucifer and Michael had a chance to fight, Sam managed to take control of himself and pulled himself, Lucifer (who was possessing Sam), Adam, and Michael (who was within Adam) into the Cage, ending the Apocalypse, though Sam was trapped in Lucifer's cage with two very angry archangels.

### Crowley's reign

After the Apocalypse was averted, but with Lucifer in the Cage and Azazel (the first Prince of Hell) and Lilith (the first demon) and Alastair (a powerful demon) dead, Hell was left without leadership. Crowley, an influential, clever, and powerful demon, King of the Crossroads (the head of all demons who make deals with humans to corrupt their souls), took two powerful gifts (Lance of Michael, The Colt) to the next Demon Prince, Ramiel, and hoped to be rewarded when Ramiel ruled Hell. Ramiel, however, didn't want the job, and offered it back to the ambitious Crowley, who took it immediately.He changed Hell to a never-ending queue, where the souls find themselves sent right back at the end of the line once they reach the front of the queue. It was also revealed that it was Castiel who pulled Sam from the pit, but unintentionally forgot Sam's soul. By the time Death retrieved Sam's soul, it had spent a year in the cage being tortured by Lucifer. As a result, when reunited with his soul, Sam found himself plagued with memories from Hell.

After absorbing all the souls in Purgatory and declaring himself the new God, Castiel made plans to "downsize" Hell. He let Crowley keep his position as King of Hell, under the condition that he only took souls that Castiel allowed him to take. Castiel said he would have gotten rid of Hell entirely, but he needed it as a threat to use against his enemies, and also because he wanted to keep Michael and Lucifer imprisoned.

In recent times Crowley seems to have returned Hell to its former more terrifying and savage state. People in this version seem to be tortured constantly and are locked in their own room constantly hoping and praying to be saved. Using the backdoor from Purgatory, Sam is able to enter Hell and rescue Bobby Singer's soul from his prison there.

### The ascendant of Abaddon

After traveling to 2013, the Knight of Hell Abaddon was infuriated to find out that a mere 'salesman' was leading Hell. She started to act in the creation of a regime change that would remove Crowley from the position of King of Hell and create an army strong enough to enslave not just humans but the fallen angels as well. Although initially incapacitated by Sam, she managed to restore her vessel and began to amass her army. She gained the most momentum when Crowley was being kept prisoner by the Norths. During that period of time, many, if not all, of Hell's deals and contracts were broken, as Abaddon did not believe in using deals to power Hell. She eventually managed to convince the more bloodthirsty and aggressive demons to her side, but many played both sides and waited for Crowley to return.

Upon Crowley's release, the rivalry between the two hit a standstill, with demons taking orders from Abaddon yet disregarding her orders to have Crowley killed. Crowley told Abaddon that their conflict was more than just brute force, it was also about gaining the support of lower demons, who enjoy having their opinions taken into consideration. Abaddon had also begun having demons steal people's souls to create her own army of demons loyal only to her to conquer everything without having to worry about the demons that weren't sure of where their loyalties lie. After Brandon North killed Abaddon, Crowley regained full control over Hell.

### Lucifer's Return

After taking possession of Castiel's vessel, Lucifer was able to escape the Cage and proceeded with torturing and breaking Crowley, making him into his "dog". The demons quickly changed sides and were shown to despise Crowley, taking pleasure in watching him suffer at the hands of his new master.

Lucifer's first command for the demons was to search and find a Hand of God, so he could use it to defeat Amara. A trap set up by the Norths eventually rendered Lucifer absent from Hell and the throne, and so Crowley made a move to reclaims his title. However, his tenure as pet and servant and general failure as King caused the demons to abandon him.

### After the Battle with the Darkness

After God and the Darkness reconciled and decided to leave, Lucifer felt abandoned once again, for that reason he no longer has an interest to rule Hell nor Heaven thus leaving the throne of Hell empty until he was re-imprisoned (this time in chains made of the same material as his cage and in the repaired and improved body of his old vessel Nick) and Crowley later retaking the throne.

### Asmodeus' Rule

After the death of Crowley and the imprisonment of Lucifer in an alternate reality, Asmodeus decided to act as King of Hell until Lucifer returns or Jack could take his place. However, upon the return of a weakened Lucifer, he was imprisoned by Asmodeus who desired to keep power for himself. Asmodeus' reign was rather short as he was killed by the Archangel Gabriel, leaving Hell without a proper ruler for the first time.

### The End

After breaking out of the Ma'lak Box, an enraged Archie escapes the Men of Letters bunker. Castiel attempts to go to Hell to inspect the Cage as a means of trapping him. God suddenly shows up and interrupts him.

After the Winchesters refuse to kill Archie, God opens the Rupture to Hell and releases all of the souls and demons of Hell upon the Earth. At the same time, he throws open every door in Hell, including the door to Lucifer's Cage. Due to the opening of all of Hell's gates, some creatures who have never previously left Hell have ascended to Earth, such as the demon Belphegor. With Belphegor's help, the Winchesters and Castiel manage to create a barrier to contain the escaped souls and demons in Harlan, Kansas, trapping the first souls to escape in a Soul Catcher. However, more and more souls escape and the barrier grows weaker and will inevitably fall. One of the souls to escape is the Prophet Kevin Tran who was cast into Hell by God himself and so gained a measure of influence amongst the other damned souls. Having learned from Belphegor that once a soul is condemned to Hell, they can never get into Heaven, Kevin decides to wander the Earth as an untethered ghost rather than risk going back to Hell.

To fix the problem, Belphegor suggests using Lilith's Crook to draw all of the souls and demons back into Hell and then sealing the rupture. Though the Crook has been sealed in Lilith's Chamber, the Chamber was opened by God along with all of the doors in Hell. Belphegor and Castiel travel into Hell through the rupture while the Winchesters and Amelia MacLeod perform the Sanetur Acre Vulnus spell to close the rupture. In Hell, Castiel kills the demon Malfayan who was taking the opportunity to raid Lilith's Chamber and they retrieve the Crook. However, the demon Ardat attacks, revealing that Belphegor's true plan is to become the Ruler of Hell before being killed by Belphegor.

Confronted by Castiel, Belphegor confirms that he wants to rule Hell for himself and intends to use the Crook to absorb all of the souls and demons of Hell which will give Belphegor unstoppable power. Belphegor begins calling the souls and demons back using the Crook while the Sanetur Acre Vulnus spell begins sealing the rupture. However, Castiel smites Belphegor to prevent him from succeeding in his plan, destroying the Crook before all of the souls and demons can be called back. As an alternative, Amelia sacrifices herself to use the Death Is an Infinite Vessel spell from the Book of the Damned to draw all of the remaining souls and demons inside of herself before Amelia throws herself into Hell. The rupture closes behind Amelia, sealing Hell again while her body, now in the depths of Hell, will eventually decay and release the souls and demons back where they belong.

Not long after, its revealed that the soul of hunter Eileen Leahy escaped from Hell when the rupture was open and was able to escape the area before the barrier went up. Having been killed by a hellhound, even though it was not under demonic control at the time, Eileen's soul had been dragged to Hell when she was killed and like Kevin, could thus never get into Heaven. Though the Winchesters originally plan to contain Eileen within her own Soul Catcher, Carson finds a resurrection spell created by Amelia and is able to use it to bring Eileen back to life instead.

Though Hell is sealed again, God continues with his plan to bring about the end. As part of this, he resurrects Lilith, although she doesn't return to ruling Hell.

### A New Queen

After learning that Michael might know something that could help them beat God, the Winchesters and Castiel use a spell from Rowena's Journals to travel into Hell to speak with the archangel. After a brawl with several demons, they are, to their shock, interrupted by Rowena. Rowena reveals that after sacrificing herself to send all of the demons and souls back, she was able to seize power in Hell for herself despite only being a damned soul and is now the Queen of Hell. Though Michael could be anywhere as the Cage is open, Rowena sends her demons to search Hell for the archangel while she speaks with the Winchesters and Castiel in her throne room, revealing that she is content in her new role. The demons discover that Michael is no longer in Hell, having escaped to Earth.
While searching for the Occultum, Sam and Dean are told by Anael that Ruby hid it in Hell. Using the spell from Rowena's journals, Sam and Dean travel into Hell where Rowena appears to have been reshaping it to be a less harsh place with Gregor commenting that Rowena holds receptions for newly-condemned souls. However, Anael turns out to have lured Sam and Dean into a trap and hired Gregor and two other demons to kill them. The Winchesters kill the demons and realize that Anael lied about Ruby hiding the Occultum in Hell. When Castiel speaks with Ruby in the Empty, she points out how obvious it is that a demon would choose Hell to hide something and eventually reveals the location on Earth where she actually hid the Occultum. While talking with Castiel and Jack, the Crossroad Demon Zack reveals that Rowena has instituted a new rule against making demon deals due to a hard "people end up where they belong" philosophy, effectively putting the Crossroad Demons out of a job.

## Hierarchy and denizens

### The Ruler of Hell

Hell has its own hierarchy, but it is not quite as rigid and controlled as Heaven's. There are many demons with various positions and titles, such as "Hell's Grand Torturer" (Alastair), "Knights of Hell" (Abaddon, Cain) and "Ruler of the Crossroads" (Barthamus, Crowley, Lilith).

The most powerful demons often assume control of Hell. Before Lucifer could walk free, high-tiered demons acted in his behalf, such as Azazel and the white-eyed demons Alastair and Lilith. After the death of all three, and Lucifer's subsequent escape, Lucifer assumed direct control of the demons both in Hell and on Earth. Crowleyusurped the throne after Lucifer was re-imprisoned, proclaiming himself as the King of Hell. Unlike Lilith and Azazel, Crowley had no intention of helping Lucifer, since he figured that Lucifer would destroy all demons once he destroyed humanity. For a time, Crowley met opposition from loyalists of Lucifer, who were led by Azazel's daughter. Crowley eventually surfaced as the victor and remained the undisputed king of hell.

Recently, Knight of Hell Abaddon began to work to change regimes, recruiting demons to work for her instead of Crowley. However, she had met some resistance from at least one crossroads demon, partly due to her recent emergence, and due to the fear Crowley had imposed and elicited from his subordinates in recent years. A campaign had been introduced for demons to choose the new leader of Hell: Crowley or Abaddon, which basically comes down to who can convince the most demons to side with them. Abaddon began winning the campaign, but Brandon North killed her with the First Blade, ending her campaign and restoring Crowley to full rule of Hell.

### The Armies

#### The Cambion

The Cambion is one of the most powerful beings of the armies of Hell. When Lucifer was released his power grew. He was destined to be The Antichrist and to destroy the Host of Heaven with a single word.

#### Samhain

Samhain is one of the most powerful demons, able to raise the dead, summon ghosts, revenants, ghouls, and more. He is known as the Demon of Halloween and was mistaken for a god by the Ancient Celts. He can only be summoned once every six hundred years on Halloween.

#### The Whore

The Whore of Babylon is a powerful creature that is subservient to Satan. When upon the Earth, she acts as a prophet and damns as many humans souls as possible.

#### Crossroads Demons

The higher demons of demonic armies are the Crossroads Demons. They partake in deals with humans as means to get their souls to damn. They have blood-red eyes and can teleport unlike lesser demons.

#### The Seven Deadly Sins

These seven demons are the demonic manifestations of the biblical sins. They have existed for hundreds of years.

#### Lesser Demons

The Black-eyed demons are the most common and some of the weakest demons. They are subservient the throne and higher demons. Daeva appear to be lesser and more rare demons that are more animalistic in nature compared to most demons. Due to their nature and strength, Daeva need to be controlled. Along with Daeva, another unique demon called Acheri reside in Hell. Acheri unlike most demons do not require vessels and instead materialize human form.

#### The Shedim

The Shedim are upon the worst entities in Hell, being so vile that God himself cast them into an unreachable part of Hell.

### The Damned

It is unclear precisely what sort of crimes one has to commit during their life to have their soul damned to Hell. Murdering innocent people in God's name appears to be one such offense, as Castiel stated.Murder of the innocent in significant quantities seems to also be a worthy offense, as Jeffery's demon stated he would go to Hell, for being a serial killer. Human souls can also be sent to Hell after making deals and selling their souls to Crossroads Demons or other demons, which hellhounds then collect when the person's time is up. In some special cases, the King of Hell can arrange for a rogue Reaper to divert a soul to Hell, as was the case with Bobby Singer.

Human souls are repeatedly tortured in Hell. Once they reach their breaking point, they find themselves completely healed, only to suffer the torture once more. After hundreds of years of hellish torture, humans soon forget what they once were and begin to transform into corrupted and twisted versions of themselves. Eventually they become demons.

Hell also contains other creatures such as Daevas, Hellhounds, Shedim and the Whore of Babylon.

## Inhabitants

### Archangels

* **Michael** (sealed in Lucifer's Cage)
* **Lucifer** (deceased)

### Demons

* **White-eyed Demons** (status unknown)
* **Princes of Hell** (formerly, extinct)
* **Knights of Hell** (formerly, extinct)
* **Samhain**
* **Moa'ah**
* **The Collectors**
* **Crossroads Demons**
* **Green-eyed Demons**
* **Orange-eyed Demons**
* **Black-eyed Demons**
	+ **Disaster Demons**
	+ **Seven Deadly Sins** (Gluttony, Pride, and Greed deceased)
* **Succubis**
	+ **Succubis (Comics)**
* **Daeva**
* **Acheri**

### Creatures

* **Shedim**
* **Hellhounds**
* **Whore of Babylon** (deceased)

### Humans

* **Adam Milligan** (sealed in Lucifer's Cage)
* **Amanda Burns**
* **Bela Talbot**
* **Bobby Singer** (formerly)
* **Borrower Witch**
* **Bloodied Soul**
* **Carl Granville**
* **Constance Welch** (formerly)
* **Brandon North** (formerly)
* **Elizabeth Higgins**
* **George Darrow**
* **Gunner Lawless**
* **John Wayne Gacy** (formerly)
* **John North** (formerly)
* **Margo Cassidy**
* **Mary Worthington** (formerly)
* **Renee Van Allen**
* **Robert Johnson**
* **Sam North** (formerly)
* **Sean Boyden**
* **Silvia Pearlman**
* **Unnamed Robber**