Hell

The following information is based on events in *The Devil's Apprentice* and *The Die of Death* and contain spoilers.

Hushers (a type of demon)

**Hell** (Danish: *Helvede*) is an afterlife for humans who have commited one of the seven deadly sins in life, and is a place of torment and punishment. Hell is ruled by Lucifer. Hell is not an entirely evil and cruel place if one isn't condemned. Many devils live normal lives there, and although their culture ans society values a certain amount of nasty behavior, pranks and the morbid, they still value being polite every once in a while. Hell is the backdrop of the majority of Kenneth B. Andersen's *The Great Devil War* book series.

The symbol of Hell, the sign of evil, is the inverted cross.

## Geography

Much of Hell is on fire. All around this fiery landscape massive mountains rise, whose roots reach far into the devil city, where they rise once more from the ground and form black cobweb-filled caverns between the devils' houses. Hell offers hundreds of landmarks and geographical features known from the land of the living, such as mountains, rivers and woods. All around Hell rises an impressive wall that is so tall that one can hardly see where it ends. The sky above Hell is always black, as it's always night there, even though the devils have a system that resembles day and night, so that they know when to sleep. Even though the sky is black, Hell is always lit by fire that burns everywhere, rising from cracks in the dry soil as if the entire realm is built upon a gigantic volcano about to erupt. Some flames are small as a candle, while others are as great as the collumns of a Greek temple. Some flames are black and glows black, while the shadows that they cast are white. Even though Hell offers ordinary-looking locations, there is often something that's different, either on purpose for the condemned, or because Hell is not like Earth. Some of these things include the Lake of FIre, which consist of liquid flame, or the Swamp of Vanity, which is covered by glass shards, pins and nails.

## Locations in Hell

### Library

*Main article: Hell library*
The local library of the devil city.

### Devil city

*Main article: Devil city*
The city of the devils and their primary dwelling place in Hell.

### Swamp of Vanity

*Main article: Sawp of Vanity*
A swamp filled with acidic mud and masses of condemned, whose sin in life was vanity. The condemned are agonizingly dissolved here into melted figures.

### Valley of Gallows

*Main article: Valley of Gallows*
Plains covered by hundreds of gallows from which condemned are hung.

### Gates of Hell

*Main article: Gates of Hell*
The gigantic black gates that lead out of Hell and to the outer court, and further out to Outer Reach and the stairwell between Hell and Paradise.

### Maim Street

*Main article: Maim Street*
The main street of the devil city. The cobblestones are not truly rock, but are the heads of condemned whose bodies have been stuck straight down besides one another. The condemned here are not able to move an inch and they fill out the entire, broad street, and are walked upon by the devils living in the city, "maiming" them.

### The Classroom

*Main article: The Classroom*
A room at the devil school reserves for condemned who were abusive teachers or unacceptably unruly students, where they are forced to repeatedly write with white-hot fire chalk long sentences on the chalkboards.

### Lake of Fire

*Main article: Lake of Fire*
A lake filled with liquid flames, located in the devil city.

### Ice River

*Main article: Ice River*
A river that encircles all of Hell, except the gate, and which freezes condemned within it to ice. It also separates Hell from the mountainous walls that surround it, as well as from Purgatory which is in the mountains themselves.

### Lucifer's castle

*Main article: Lucifer's castle*
The home of the Devil and seat of his government, built out of thousands of human bones.

### Bog of Nightmares

*Main article: Bog of Nightmares*
A bog filled with the nightmares authored by the hushers, in liquid form. The bog is filled with condemned who are forced to endure said nightmares. If a person falls into the bog, they have the chance of experiencing the nightmares too. This makes it a dangerous place, not just for condemned but for anyone.

### Whipping Hill

*Main article: Whipping Hill*
A hill on which condemned who whipped people around in their life are whipped back and forth in their afterlife.

### Suicide Plains

*Main article: Suicide Plains*
Also known as the Cemetery, the Suicide Plains are a gigantic field on which, every night, condemned suicides dig their own graves and are then buried "alive" by other condemned. The following night, a team of condemned grave robbers and grave vandals arrive and are whipped into digging them out again. Then everything repeats from the beginning. The church lies beyond the Suicide Plains, which is why it is sometimes referred to as "the Cemetery" by the devil of Hell.

The cemetery of the devils are located behind the church as to be spared from the sight and sounds of the Suicide Plains.

### Forest of Fear

*Main article: Forest of Fear*
A dark forest haunted by hushers in massive numbers. Here murderers are chased by hushers.

### Rock Bearer Plains

*Main article: Rock Bearer Plains*
Muddy plains on which long lines of condemned, chained to one another, carry huge, heavy rocks from one side to the other, and back again, repeatedly, while being whipped by gragorns.

### Gate Hinges

*Main article: Gate Hinges*
The hinges of the gate of Hell. Vast amounts of condemned are lodged inside of them so that with every opening and closure of the gate they are crushed. Their screams of agony give the gate its "creak."

### Mangle

A place of punishment where the bodies of condemned are wrung till they dislocate all over. It is probably a machine similar to antique mangles (also called wringers or wringing machines) for clothes - that is, a machine with two close-fitting rotating rollers which wet clothes pass between so that the liquid is forced out of it.

### Pillory Park

*Main article: Pillory Park*
A place filled with pollories or stocks.

## Trivia

* In many mythological, folklore and religious traditions, Hell is a place of torment and punishment in an afterlife. It is viewed by most Abrahamic traditions as punishment. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a Hell as an intermediary period between incarnations. Typically these traditions locate Hell in another dimension or under the Earth's surface and often include entrances to Hell from the land of the living. Other afterlife destinations include Heaven, Purgatory, Paradise, and Limbo. Read more on Wikipedia.

## References

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2. ↑ Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Angel of Evil*. (Publication House) October 20, 2019. (Original Danish version published April 29, 2010 by Høst & Søn)