Circles of Hell: Difference between revisions

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** In DnD they had multiple layers for pretty much every afterlife, from the Seven Heavens of Celestia to the Nine Hells of Baator.

** The Planescape setting expands a bit on the nature of the Hells. ''In addition to eternal torment'' (because, what, that's not bad enough?), it's possible for someone to ''sell their soul'' to either demons or devils, which then results in being cannon fodder in the unending Blood War when you die. And as if that's not bad enough, you're pretty much ''regenerating cannon fodder'', doomed to a cycle of existence that involves dying again and again and again...''after you're already dead''. It pretty much ''sucks''.

 

== Videogames ==

* ''[[Dante's Inferno (video game)|Dantes Inferno]]'', natch. Since it's based on the [[Trope Codifier]], they sure couldn't miss this one.

* The [[Civilization IV]] mod ''[[Fall From Heaven]]'' has six circles of hell, one for each evil God/Goddess (except one, who was [[Face Heel Turn|originally good]]). Interestingly, hell in that universe isn't so much a prison for the wicked as it is a factory for the creation of demons to eventually wage war back on the outside world of Erebus. Each circle represents some aspect of evil to be cultivated in the inhabitants to turn them more and more demonic. There's even a circle of hell that [[Lotus Eater Machine|mimics Erebus]], designed to trick would-be-escapees of hell into giving up and returning to the other levels.

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