Thursday, September 20, 2007

Levels of Inferno

I went through and started to make a list of things to populate the levels of the Inferno. I figure I can use this as a guide and then expand on it as I start to work on the individual levels.

I wanted to put the list behind a cut, but I can't find a way to do it. Sorry!

  • Overall
    • cracked walls/fallen bridges
  • Vestibule (Opportunists)
    • banner
    • maggot floor
    • hornets that follow avatar
    • angels
    • Charon (boatman)
  • Circle 1 -- Limbo (Virtuous Pagans)
    • see giant funnel
    • poets and philosophers (Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Homer...)
    • Harrowing of Hell
    • castle (surrounded in darkness)
  • Circle 2 (Lustful)
    • Ledge --> Minos (coiled tail) --> souls
    • Wirlwind of crows
    • Cleopatra, Helen, Achilles, Paris, Tristan...
    • Francesca & Paolo
  • Circle 3 (Gluttonous)
    • garbage/slush
    • freezing rain/dirty snow/huge hail stones
    • Ceberus (3-headed dog, huge, red eyes, glutton)
    • Ciacco
  • Circle 4 (Hoarders & Wasters)
    • boulders
    • hoarders vs. wasters
    • Plutus (god of wealth)
    • Dame Fortune
  • Circle 5 (Wrathful)
    • River Styx (dirty marsh)
    • souls of wrathful trapped in slime; sullen trapped under surface
    • Tower (flame signal)
    • Phlegyas (boatman from Tower to Dis)
    • Filippo Argenti
  • Circle 6 -- Dis (Heretics)
    • city (opposite of New Jerusalem)
    • rebellious angels
    • Infernal Furies (fly from open gate)
    • Medusa
    • holy messenger (angel) -- opens gate
    • heretics in blazing hot, iron tombs; lids scattered on ground
    • Uberti & Cavalcani (same tomb)
    • broken cliff to level 7 (pope lid)
  • Circle 7 (Violent)
    • bloody River Phlegethon (violence against neighbors)
      • smother under river
      • centaurs stab with spears
      • Minotar
      • Nessus carries them across the river
    • Wood of Suicides (violence against self)
      • turned into thorny trees
      • leaves eaten by Harpies (bleed -- can only talk then; wounds heal)
    • Burning Sand (violence against God, art, and nature)
      • Blasphemers = laying under rain of fire
      • Sodomites = run in circles
      • Usurers = crouched on ground
    • Geryon takes them to Circle 8
  • Circle 8 (Fraudulent)
    • arena w/ 10 rows of Malebolgia (ditches); bridges; black stone; well in center
    • Bolgia:
      • Panderers & Seducers
        • driven by demons with whips
      • Flatterers
        • river of excrement
      • Simoniacs
        • placed upside down in a hole
        • feet set on fire
      • Fortune Tellers
        • walk backwards with heads turned around on their bodies
        • eyes are full of tears (can't see)
      • Grafters
        • poked by demons when they try to get out of water
        • chased by demons -- all bridges to B6 are broken; have to climb into B6
      • Hypocrites
        • wear heavy robes and walk in circles
        • Ciaphas -- crucified on floor
      • Thieves
        • restricted by snakes; attacked by flying reptiles
        • bursts into flames when bitten
      • Evil Counselors (Deceivers)
        • covered in fire (hidden)
      • Sowers of Discord
        • cut by demon with sword
        • walk around and heal again
      • Falsifiers
        • combined torments
    • giants
      • Nimrod, Ephialtes & Briareus, Tityos & Typhon, Antaeus (lowers them to B9)
  • Circle 9 -- Cocytus(Treacherous)
    • cold/ice
    • Caina (treacherous to kin)
      • stuck in ice up to necks; can bend necks
    • Antenora (treacherous to country)
      • stuck in ice up to necks; can't bend necks
    • Ptolomea (treacherous to guests)
      • stuck in ice up to half of face; tears freeze
    • Judecca (treacherous to masters)
      • completely stuck in ice
    • Satan -- stuck in center ice
      • 3 faces
      • 6 bat wings
      • 6 eyes
      • 3 chins
      • chews Brutus, Cassius, and Judas
  • Way out
    • climb down(/up) Satan (gap in ice)

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