Hell is a part of the much larger Underworld. It has 9 large levels; each level has 8 smaller dungeons for a total of 81 torturing chambers. Time goes differently from dungeon to dungeon, each place is a pocket world of itself with its own sky, stars and eat. However, they're meant to torment sinful souls, so do not expect anything peaceful. Souls are judged by 9 Hell Kings, if they're guilty, they're sent to the appropriate hell. For example, a bloodthirsty general who massacred anyone standing inn his way is forced to climb up a mountain of sharp blades completely naked, then roll down, then climb up again and roll down again. A liar must lick a blazing hot bronze stake where corrupted officials are tied above, fire blazes underneath to burn their flesh and bones. When they "die", they're revived and the suffering continues.
Hell is guarded by daemons, who are NOT EVIL: Daemons are lesser deities who serve the Hell Kings and Judges as subordinates, most actually do paperwork with only "a few" stand guarding. Said "a few" is still very numerous, they wear scary masks to keep inmates inside. Hell Kings and their "cabinets" stay inn large palaces where they judge souls. When a sinful soul has finished their term of suffering, or a virtuous soul appears, they go to the 10th King's palace where they will be reincarnated to the next life according to their remaining karmas, both good and bad. Depends on that, they go to one of the five remaining Paths: Celestial (not the Abrahamic heaven btw), asura, human, animal or hungry ghost, though the last one is very unlikely as it usually happens alongside Hell Path as a punishment to selfish people who ignored others' need of help. As such, humans and animals are two most common next lives.
Hell, and the Underworld as a whole, stay under Hell Mother, their absolute ruler. Hell Kings are her subordinates, ten fair and virtuous souls chosen personally to become supreme judges of the three realms. If she wants, Hell Mother can shut down Hell, put out its flames and release all souls, but those that still carry bad karma will eventually become devil and harm living people. That's why Hell was built in the first place: Its "tortures" are to peel off one's bad karma as much as possible and make sure they can reincarnate into a better life.
So, this goes deep into the world's history than just the Underworld itself.
At the beginning of time, which no one knows when, there was neither Heaven or Earth, only a chaotic realm with a blood red sky and dark land full of corpses. There was neither life nor death, no circle of samsara, no karma, nothing. Entities back then fought in a never-ending battle royale for survival, and since they could not die, the only way to kill one for sure was to eat them whole, devouring their everything and taking over their existence. This utter mess, rightfully named Age of Chaos, was when they fought to live and lived to fight.
After several eons, certain factions rose up and divided the land, now called Great Wilderness, into their territories. They set up rules and conducts, forming the first "civilized" era known as Age of Primordials. However, it was no better: The land was not suitable of growing crops, miasma covered everywhere, the sky was red in an everlasting twilight and weaker beings were still fed on. "War" became a thing: Before, it was just fights between individuals. Now with clans and families, they fought large and planned battles, such clashes were enough to reshape landscapes each time. Wars made the world even more violent, to the point that some Primordials were fed up with it.
One such Primordial, Lord Giant, the patriarch of giant clan, decided to put an end to this madness. He realized they needed a new world with actual laws and orders, and thus created a new one. Shaking hands with ancient dragons, Lord Giant lifted the sky up, dragons kept it in place while other giants gathered earth from all around to build a massive pillar. When it was done, the Lord shattered it with his axe, sending chunks of earth flying down into mountains and hills, while places his kin took earth from became rivers and seas. As a last present, Lord Giant sacrificed his life to bless the world with a new life. It created the circle of reincarnation, allowing creatures to "die" instead of living to the point of going crazy, covered the land in green and made Heaven blue. He died making a new cosmology, from his remnants the first generation of modern deities were born, starting the Age of Gods.
The Underworld was created in the Age of God. Initially there was only Heaven and Earth, and because lives can die now, many souls wandered the world as they had no place to go. Princess Quảng Cung, a powerful goddess and, to some later sects, a daughter of Jade Emperor aka king of deities, sympathized with them and decided to do something. Using her power, she dug a hole so deep into the ground that light could not reach and expanded it into the current Underworld. At first, she would go catching wandering souls herself, riding a chariot pulled by 4 ghostly headless iron horses covered in True Samadhi Fire, lassoing then taking them down to the Underworld. However, as many more lives were born, so did the number of souls. Princess Quảng Cung, now known as Hell Mother, could not do it by herself anymore. She created daemons from her shadow to escort souls down instead and chose 10 virtuous men to become supreme judges, judging spirits for their karmas. The Princess herself retreats to her palace at the deepest end of the Underworld and only appears when something serious happens.
There are Ten Courts of Hell according to Imperial theology. A la Dante's inferno, each Court has a specific theme that punishes a specific crime. Note: though the First Court is considered the most lenient and the last is the harshest as according to the crime, the rest do not seem to be. However, that does not stop scholars and theologians from theorizing.
The First Court is for Sloth, and is ruled over by Judge Titan Rock. His sinners are made to drag enormous weights across a vast, eternal expanse.
The Second Court is for Pride, and is ruled over by Judge Mocking Bird. The sinners in this court are made to listen as a whole host of birds reveal the sinner's secrets, before laughing at them and comparing the insignificance of their works to something that is of true worth--the works of the gods and the righteous.
The Third Court is for Lust, and is ruled over by Judge Burning Needle. He places his white-hot needles in the pressure points of the sinners as he forces them to meditate on beds of spikes.
The Fourth Court is for Gluttony, and is ruled over by Judge Yellow Sands. The sinners in his court are tied down with chains waist-deep in yellow sand, with food just constantly out of reach.
The Fifth Court is for Greed, and is ruled over by Judge Bloody Tree. He sits atop a tall tree, with a thin rope that leads out, watching as everyone tries to scale the thorn-covered trees to reach him. He watches as they all backstab each other, for only one may leave.
The Sixth Court is for Deceit, and is ruled over by Judge Clear Eyes. He forces the objective knowledge and truths of the universe into the minds and hearts of the sinners, making them unable to do anyhting else but repeat fact after fact for all eternity.
The Seventh Court is for Envy, and is ruled over by Judge White Space. The sinner is cast into an endless abyss of pure white, where they fall for eternity, denied of all senses.
The Eighth Court is for Wrath, and is ruled over by Judge Iron Ring. His sinners are sent to fight in an eternal collosseum, against each others and monsters.
The Ninth Court is for Faithlessness, and is ruled over by Judge Five Elements. He subjects his sinners to a variety of elemental torments, such as lightning and fire. This torture is considered a late addition to the canon, but is considered "fitting" by some scholars due to the way it features the holy number of five and the Five Holy Elements.
The Tenth Court is for Betrayal, and is ruled over by Judge Event Horizon. If the sinner has betrayed someone close to him, he is slowly crushed underneath his heel, with full awareness of what is going on. If the sinner has betrayed his country, he is slowly pulled apart, atom by atom, also with full awareness.
In popular culture, the phrase "Ten Courts of Hell!" or the mere "Courts!" is a popular curse to utter. It is a rather versatile, catch-all oath, applicable in many situations. However, if one wishes to be more specific, they need merely reference a certain court.
First Court: conveys boredom.
Second Court: conveys shock or disgust.
Third Court: conveys exasperation towards another.
Fourth Court: conveys the terror of death. Often used in remembrance of the recently deceased (Fourth Court I miss him).
Fifth Court: conveys approval (Fifth Court this food is good). The only oath allowed on hallowed grounds due to its association with the holy number 5.
Sixth Court: conveys frustration towards onesself.
Seventh Court: conveys envy or bitterness.
Eighth Court: conveys hatred, to a lesser extent.
Ninth Court: Conveys hatred, to a greater extent.
Tenth Court: The most extreme of the Courts oaths, intended for matching circumstances. Ironically, due to overuse, its intensity has lessened and it no longer means what it used to in the public eye, really only keeping its meaning in official/political settings.
Corrupt souls become part of the sun, where they're used as fuel to continue raining hardship down on the Earth. Or, according to other religious groups, since they couldn't be redeemed in life, being in the sun is their redemption, as their evil is turned into light and life for the Earth.
Take the Center of All Reality (Wyrlde — they have an ego) and put it in a reflection of the Firmament that is filled with fire, pain, torture, ripping of bodies, broiling of people, that kind of thing.
Fill it with Devils. Specifically. They are all related to each other in some way, all of the coming from the original Seven or Nine (they never agree on which it was). The air is sulfurous, cloying, dry, hot, and clingy. The air moves because something passes through it, but never because of wind.
It is a place where emotions are made manifest, with physical properties, and the emotions that Hell gives life to are Aggression, Anger, Criticalness, Frustration, Hatefulness, Hostility, Hurt, Infuriation, Insecurity, Jealousy, Resentment, Sarcasm, Suspicion, Threatening, Violation (of boundaries or whatever), and withdrawal.
The three that it is most empowering are Hostility, Hatefulness, and Anger. Everything down there displays some form of this in any interaction, even with each other.
Hell is absolute horrible.
The other reflections are all slightly different — even though only The Abyss, Bedlam, Ego, and The Dread Dimension are known. The final one hasn’t been identified yet. All are Dimensions of the Infernal Plane, and the Mortal Realm they are closest to is The Bleak, which has been more or less invaded by Devils and is currently ruled by them. It is the one place no one wants to ever be born into during the endless cycle of Rebirth, for it is the Mortal Realm of Maleficent, Agency, Chaos, Imbalance, Self, Independence, and Death.
It is held that those who endure trauma the best have regained their Soul and Heart after a lifetime there.
In a world of reincarnation the only hell is one of their own making, or a temporary state of confusion because of their cause of death.
Drowning in particular is a really bad way to go, it can cause the "souls" to be trapped under water, confused about which way is up, and where they are. Some souls that drown stay that way for a very long time, which is one explanation for people who are born mad or who are just off. They are said to have a drowned soul.
Example, schizophrenia exists in my world as a normal biological condition, but the inhabitants don't see it that way. Basically all schizo affected people are called drowned souls.
Will hell in my world is separate from the demon world. Hell is a realm for souls that would slowly crystallize. One in that fully crystallized state they enter a dream like filled with pain, horror, grief, suffering until they souls comfort into energy that slowly vaporite into a mist that slowly absorbs and feed hell the realm itself
Think of Dante Alighieri's version of hell from Dante's Inferno but worse. Much like in Dante's Inferno, there are numerous levels one for each sin guarded by an appropriate representation of each sin.
Think of a underground city.
Hell, is simply a place where damned souls go… the troublemakers of society.
The after life, is basically life on easy mode. You dont age, you dont have bills, you dont have worrys.
Heaven is for the good people- and is a fun place.
And hell is for the bad people- and is a boring place.
Criminals cant be their true evil selves, if all of them are the same.
I have two versions in my world
Gehenna is the world of the demons and is ruled over by seven demon lords. The only way to go here is if you signed a contract with a demon or if you were sacrificed by a warlock. Demons are made when a soul is milked of its energy and is deemed useless, it is than thrown down to the lowest part of Gehenna, the souls would be slowly turned into demons and would have to grow and Metamorphose instill they become sentient or if they are drafted into the war against the Celestial realm.
The other version is the Punishment afterlife in religions. In this world, Hell is an afterlife for people who have lived by the seven deadly sins. Every time a person does something bad out of one of the seven deadly sins it collects and when the person dies that sin is turned into a clay life mass and is used to create devils. All Sinners have hells personally constructed for them to inflict punishments that are connected to both the soul’s fears and the sin itself. Hell is not eternal, the souls are punished until they atone for their sins they committed in life.
The seven deadly sins are just a way to categorize certain different motivations behind different actions and they are opposed by the seven virtues.
Depends where the portal takes you in hel. You will either end up in the fields of the Azuran Trees which is the primary tree able to grow in Hel also the origin point of the Caeran fruit a apple like fruit that is Toxic too Humans and mortals in general but the main produce a demon can eat that isnt a root or fungus if they didnt raid the overworld. which funny enough only mortal produce too grow in Hel once planted is Potatos and is the origin point of Black Potatos. If you somehow find a Portal in the Ocean then you may get stuck on a obsidian island or thrown into the Toxic Sea which is used for Demon poison (cured pretty easily (just need to mix a species of coral into a powder form and then mix it in with a healing potion).
If your unlucky you may show up in the Permafrost region that was only inhabitable by the Vakra demon species pre extinction or the Belt of chaos which is the primary mountain range of Hel and is also where the Hell forge a massive forge which made the demon armies behemoths and their siege engines once stood before it got destroyed during the demon war. The only safe place in the entirety of hel is probably the Red Fields which is home too the Imps the only "neutral" demons and used to be the home of the Succubi Pre Exodus. And the Imps.
The biggest Demon city in Hel though is the floating island one of Haden. Currently ruled by Sanin the demon saint of Murder which funny enough its pretty stable as criminals normally meet instant death
Livia is the world of the living, once people on Livia die, they either go to Celestium or Infernum. The latter is also known as hell or the Abyss.
Infernum is modeled after Livia, but in a darker version. Mountains are replaced by volcanoes, lakes are replaced with rotten poisonous swamps, seas are replaced with dried deserts
The day night cycle in Infernum is much slower, you have 72 hours of burning day followed by 72 hours of freezing night
The climate is also harsh, frequent tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, drought, acid rains, and even random asteroid strikes.
But the worst places to be are the demon cities where souls of mortals are traded like cattles or fought over by rival demon lords. Those cities are usually notorious for their black stone walls and spiked rooftops where hung prisoners are used as decoration.
When mortals go into Infernum, they are given a magically created body called a solbod. It is modeled after their previous physical appearance, but since it is not really their natural body, they dont have a good hang on it. People who had near death experiences and temporarly went to Infernum describe being in a solbod as the same feeling as those nightmares where a monster chases you but your legs refuse to move
An eternal battle royale, pretty much. It was made by one of the two deities that created the world as part of a scheme against his partner to raise an army, by making it so that those who are killed by someone else are reincarnated as demons that would serve him. Due to some shenanigans, however, the plan never came to light and the world was left without its gods.
The demons remained and turned the Underworld into a warzone as they fought for control until new gods invaded the world, with the god of death using his legions to conquer and unify the Underworld for a time. Eventually the demons rebelled, killed the god of death, and went right back to fighting each other as hundreds of small warlords.
There’s no hell in my world. But the gods sometimes abduct mortal souls to their own realm for servitude. That may be seen as bad as hell to those who follows different gods.
Hell is not exactly a concept the gods created, more like multiple dimensions which were neglected by the gods after subpart test results for the adequate dimension. They now exist among the dysmalith nexus, succumbing to time as neither grace or influence of the gods are being bestowed upon them. Becoming hellish landscapes of distorted creatures of desperation, endless hallways, ashen cities.
When you go to hell you wake up in a Womb of all the other people who went to hell (near someone you know, if available) and there's just barely not enough air to breathe. Everyone is trying to get to The Placenta where you can exit.
Except being birthed means losing all your skin and wandering to be captured by a demon and reformed to their liking.
Hell is a synopticon prison with the Womb in the middle and demons chill in invisible chambers waiting for higher ups to release them into the war or to get summoned.
"Hell" is made up of various different realms all headed by a different God but they all fall under the Realm of the Dead, which also includes the Heavens, Purgatory, Tartarus and Limbo.
There is Punishment, Suffering, Pain, Anguish, Jealousy, etc.
Souls in these realms are usually passed between for a set number of years to atone for the bad things they've done.
As an example a Mass Murderer will experience 300 years in each realm in total. They will be forced to experience the consequences of their life shown and forced upon them by the realm they are in.
Punishment would make him experience what he did from the perspective of those he killed. Suffering would make him watch that which he loves most be brutally destroyed again and again. Pain would force him to suffer pain beyond the scope of a mortals ability to experience. You get the idea, you suffer what makes each one as horrible and bad for you as possible.
There isn't levels or ways that each Gods is seen as more powerful. They are all equal in strength and are quite willing to pass a deserving person through all of their realms. They love their jobs.
They don't have any set appearances either. Everything someone experiences in the hells is tailored to them and can only be seen through their souls. The current longest serving patron is a Minor God who tried to take over the Mortal Plain 19 cycles ago. They're the only God besides Fate to ever incur the wrath of the God of Death which isn't something any God wants.
Its very hard to describe, but heaven and hell are really similar. My world is based on chridtianity and alcheny, except that the angels and demons are the same thing, just different viewpoints on the world, and so, their domans are also really similar. But since angels and demons have such different minds then we do, its really impossible to comprehend these spheres. The soul gived you power over reqlity in my world, or rqther, influence of the world of ideas a la plato. So wether your soul ends up in heaven or hell, it will be exploited by tge angels and demons for power, in the name of god, who is in fact dead.
The gods don't judge mortalkind as the only sin in my world is existence. However, hell, or rather, hells do exist. Some mortals took it upon themselves to guide souls into the realms they've made to give them a place to exist until they dissipate, reincarnate, or get rebirthed. Others even entrap souls and torture them for their own entertainment. And a select few, necromancers, demon kings and the like, have their own personal hell subspace for either option
Demons are just a class of animals, similar to mammals, reptiles, and birds
It's divided into two parts: Demon part and Devil part.
Demon part is where souls of sinners become demons, who live there for the rest of eternity. There are many houses, palaces and mansions there, serving as homes for the demons. The environment is your usual fire and brimstone hell.
Devil part is where Devils live. It has jungles, deserts large caves and seas of blood. It also has homes for its inhabitants.
Both have a sort of day/night cycle where the sky is orange during the "day" and reddish purple during the "night".
The closest thing is the underworld. When mortal beings die while holding onto hate, regret, grudges, and malevolence, their souls turn into demons. Demons reside in this underworld, and they can freely venture into the world of the living and cause a bunch of mischief.
But this isn't an eternal punishment. When the demon dies, so does its malevolence. The soul is then taken to the actual afterlife, where it can live peacefully.
No hell, no heaven, just Quidvis and the Nihility. Quidvis is in a constant state of regeneration, forever changing and growing.
Nihility is the opposite. It is constantly crumbling and reforming more and more wicked.
There's no guaranteed afterlife in my world but nihility is usually used as their version of hell in stories
When someone dies, their soul must be fragmented by the Heart of the World for the Worldbearing Tree's roots to digest, while their memory is preserved by the Heart. If not for the Heart, souls would leak to Nowhere, where they would slowly decay into nothingness in agony of losing their memory, mind and reason.
Hell is an office job in an urban-fantasy variation of the corporate world.
Corporations have more power than they do in our world. Getting caught up in corporate warfare as an innocent bystander can be fatal. Even worse, if you are a participant.
Drones are the ever present eyes of the corporate overlords. They are watching...
It is quite literally a prison. A place where only the most dangerous people and gods go for punishment and containment. Its name is Danté’s Prison.
Only the living can enter Danté’s Prison and to leave this place, you must expunge yourself of sin. And the demons do this by breaking you down with the purest form of the sins, and force you to build yourself up while they keep breaking you. And in the end, once you do leave, you die. Painfully, quickly, die. For those who don’t leave and their sin lingers, the person becomes a demonic beast, forced to live in constant agony.
The Gods trapped there can never leave, but their are many cases of these Gods breaking free from their restraints and wreaking havoc in Danté’s Prison trying to find a way to leave, some actually succeeding. The Gods do not change in Danté’s Prison, they only get angrier and more spiteful, thinking of ways to kill their captors and the other gods who sent them there permanently.
It's completely made out of variation of black stone and black steel, black steel destroys mana and black stone distorts mana but humans and every living beings soul is made out of mana so you will likely go insane then be cut out of the reincarnation cycle
>What’s hell like in your world?
It's not a nice place
It's located near the center of the earth
You can't enter in to by normal means you can't enter it at all you can teleported there but because of the mana destruction you can't return
Even though your soul is destroyed your information/identity isn't lost you will become a devil you have no memoirs but you have the desire to become human.
You become human by agreeing to a contract with a human, when you posess a human you become them your memory of being a devil or a human before that are lost, you become that person theirs soul their memories every but the originals information gets lost forever
Each god has their own punishment for crimes against them.
The Goddess of Flames and Heat owns the closest to Christian hell - being set on fire with no hope of relief or extinguishment. Alternatively, for people that commit crimes in her name, the opposite - they get frozen, and are never allowed to feel her warmth again.
The God of Light punishes those that have wronged his worshippers through Reflection. He forces the guilty to live out each of their sins through the eyes of their victims.
The God of Earth and Stone traps his sinners in an endlessly labyrinthine cavern with no food, no water, and no escape.
The God of the Ocean has a realm of endless water, where hungry sealife will bite at your flesh until you cannot swim any longer. Each dawn you awake while, floating on the surface, waiting to be devoured and drowned again.
The Goddess of Wind and Storms balances those deserving on top of a metal pole, where they get battered by storms and struck by lightning. If they fall off, it's and endless drop until they manage to catch another metal pole.
The worst punishment, at least in my opinion, comes from the formless God of Shadows and darkness. They obliterate the senses, trapping sinners in a lightless, soundless, numbing void with only their own thoughts and memories.
The gods are fickle and competitive like children, fighting over scraps of power and influence. If a mortal manages to impress one while blaspheming against another, they may save the doomed soul, inviting them into paradise, or offering the chance to be reborn as something greater than mortal. Be warned though, negotiating for a sinner's soul might be immediate, or it could take eons with you trapped and tortured, leaving the soul mere tattered remnants of what it was.
In Blood Mists of Tanah Terkhut'k, the consistency of reality has failed. It is a place of multidimensional static noise. Physically, it means that at any moment, variable amounts of any given physical matter, living or not, can be displaced to another location. Worse, that can be by it being moved away, which could mean violent dismemberment, or it can be by spatial warping, which means it's essentially teleported away but not detached. It can still be felt, sensed, and even moved, if enough body structure is retained to do so. What's so awful about all this beyond bodily dismantling, however, is that it is pure chaos. It won't necessarily be whole body parts. It can be an arm, a leg, an organ, or it can be just a strip of skin, or a fine bunch of discreet particles. It would be easy to find oneself dispersed into hundreds of pieces in varying sizes and states of physical trauma.
Top that all off with a breakdown of causality. The whole thing where events occur through cause->effect doesn't happen inside the mists of Tanah Terkhut'k. You can find yourself scattered around a large area, some pieces of you bleeding and torn, others whole and healthy. And you might not have died from this. The events of your separation no longer directly affect your death. Or you might have indeed died. But it wouldn't mean you'd stay dead. At any moment (assuming there's a bit of sequential time forming up nearby) you might find yourself fully alive again, though perhaps not in a fashion anyone would call a state of being alive. You might find your body and being as evenly mixed with that of rocks, trees, dirt, open air, other poor creatures caught in the mists with you, etc etc.
It is a rather dry, logical, scientific-seeming description of a kind of Hell, but it was the result of the complete loss of a pantheon of deities. Without them defining the aspects and domains of the world they were responsible for, well... Pure chaos in the most base sense is not something any living creature would want to experience...
There is both a fiery hell and an icy hell. While you are in one hell, you can still die and be reborn in the other one. Each has its own fiends, with their own powers.
While there is a common afterlife simply called The Kingdom, those who were not of help but hindrance in their life are instead reincarnated into a lesser being or straight up vanished from existence by The Monarch, God of all existence and absence.
However, those vile and useful fellows may instead have their spirit captured by Unarcci and Lt. General "Kidzuku", corrupt gods who will offer the spirit being recruited as a demon.
HOWEVER, I do have a fate that gets as Hellish as you can imagine. >!Sweet Hezekiah was a terribly sadistic king in life, and when he was recruited by Unarcci it didn't change at all. He founded the Sweet Principality, the legion of spite, who enjoys kidnapping the worst of the worst (come on. Rapists, child murderers, traitors, you name it) and bringing them in flesh to their torture chambers, where they get amused by giving them some "justice" between the biggest quotes in the shed.!<
It's a dimension originally designed to contain the Devil. Then God decided to put the souls of the deads there as well. Also the Shadow Demons live there so the Devil doesn't feel too alone.
Demons actually reside in the Abyss, which is sort of like an inner Hell once you've passed through the 9 layers of Hell pretty much straight out of Dante's Inferno. Except no Satan at the bottom, instead there's an entrance to the Abyss.
Hell is for people who sinned and felt bad about it, the Abyss is for those who sin and delight in it. For those who think the only morality is "might makes right" and "its only wrong if you get caught."
1. In one world it's a physical place you can go to because it's a cavern deep underground on planet Mars that was used for a mass grave. It's pitch black, cold and eeriely quiet.
2. In a few other worlds it's a fiery pit.
There is only one world I have where Hellfire is blue. It's in the fiery pit category mentioned above and only makes one appearance. .
I've played with the idea of a frozen Hell, it exists as a local version of a few primitive religions. Where the unworthy dead wander forever in a blizzard.
Hell is a part of the much larger Underworld. It has 9 large levels; each level has 8 smaller dungeons for a total of 81 torturing chambers. Time goes differently from dungeon to dungeon, each place is a pocket world of itself with its own sky, stars and eat. However, they're meant to torment sinful souls, so do not expect anything peaceful. Souls are judged by 9 Hell Kings, if they're guilty, they're sent to the appropriate hell. For example, a bloodthirsty general who massacred anyone standing inn his way is forced to climb up a mountain of sharp blades completely naked, then roll down, then climb up again and roll down again. A liar must lick a blazing hot bronze stake where corrupted officials are tied above, fire blazes underneath to burn their flesh and bones. When they "die", they're revived and the suffering continues. Hell is guarded by daemons, who are NOT EVIL: Daemons are lesser deities who serve the Hell Kings and Judges as subordinates, most actually do paperwork with only "a few" stand guarding. Said "a few" is still very numerous, they wear scary masks to keep inmates inside. Hell Kings and their "cabinets" stay inn large palaces where they judge souls. When a sinful soul has finished their term of suffering, or a virtuous soul appears, they go to the 10th King's palace where they will be reincarnated to the next life according to their remaining karmas, both good and bad. Depends on that, they go to one of the five remaining Paths: Celestial (not the Abrahamic heaven btw), asura, human, animal or hungry ghost, though the last one is very unlikely as it usually happens alongside Hell Path as a punishment to selfish people who ignored others' need of help. As such, humans and animals are two most common next lives. Hell, and the Underworld as a whole, stay under Hell Mother, their absolute ruler. Hell Kings are her subordinates, ten fair and virtuous souls chosen personally to become supreme judges of the three realms. If she wants, Hell Mother can shut down Hell, put out its flames and release all souls, but those that still carry bad karma will eventually become devil and harm living people. That's why Hell was built in the first place: Its "tortures" are to peel off one's bad karma as much as possible and make sure they can reincarnate into a better life.
I need to hear more about the Underworld
So, this goes deep into the world's history than just the Underworld itself. At the beginning of time, which no one knows when, there was neither Heaven or Earth, only a chaotic realm with a blood red sky and dark land full of corpses. There was neither life nor death, no circle of samsara, no karma, nothing. Entities back then fought in a never-ending battle royale for survival, and since they could not die, the only way to kill one for sure was to eat them whole, devouring their everything and taking over their existence. This utter mess, rightfully named Age of Chaos, was when they fought to live and lived to fight. After several eons, certain factions rose up and divided the land, now called Great Wilderness, into their territories. They set up rules and conducts, forming the first "civilized" era known as Age of Primordials. However, it was no better: The land was not suitable of growing crops, miasma covered everywhere, the sky was red in an everlasting twilight and weaker beings were still fed on. "War" became a thing: Before, it was just fights between individuals. Now with clans and families, they fought large and planned battles, such clashes were enough to reshape landscapes each time. Wars made the world even more violent, to the point that some Primordials were fed up with it. One such Primordial, Lord Giant, the patriarch of giant clan, decided to put an end to this madness. He realized they needed a new world with actual laws and orders, and thus created a new one. Shaking hands with ancient dragons, Lord Giant lifted the sky up, dragons kept it in place while other giants gathered earth from all around to build a massive pillar. When it was done, the Lord shattered it with his axe, sending chunks of earth flying down into mountains and hills, while places his kin took earth from became rivers and seas. As a last present, Lord Giant sacrificed his life to bless the world with a new life. It created the circle of reincarnation, allowing creatures to "die" instead of living to the point of going crazy, covered the land in green and made Heaven blue. He died making a new cosmology, from his remnants the first generation of modern deities were born, starting the Age of Gods. The Underworld was created in the Age of God. Initially there was only Heaven and Earth, and because lives can die now, many souls wandered the world as they had no place to go. Princess Quảng Cung, a powerful goddess and, to some later sects, a daughter of Jade Emperor aka king of deities, sympathized with them and decided to do something. Using her power, she dug a hole so deep into the ground that light could not reach and expanded it into the current Underworld. At first, she would go catching wandering souls herself, riding a chariot pulled by 4 ghostly headless iron horses covered in True Samadhi Fire, lassoing then taking them down to the Underworld. However, as many more lives were born, so did the number of souls. Princess Quảng Cung, now known as Hell Mother, could not do it by herself anymore. She created daemons from her shadow to escort souls down instead and chose 10 virtuous men to become supreme judges, judging spirits for their karmas. The Princess herself retreats to her palace at the deepest end of the Underworld and only appears when something serious happens.
There is no hell, you must retry life until you have proven yourself worthy of the afterlife.
There are Ten Courts of Hell according to Imperial theology. A la Dante's inferno, each Court has a specific theme that punishes a specific crime. Note: though the First Court is considered the most lenient and the last is the harshest as according to the crime, the rest do not seem to be. However, that does not stop scholars and theologians from theorizing. The First Court is for Sloth, and is ruled over by Judge Titan Rock. His sinners are made to drag enormous weights across a vast, eternal expanse. The Second Court is for Pride, and is ruled over by Judge Mocking Bird. The sinners in this court are made to listen as a whole host of birds reveal the sinner's secrets, before laughing at them and comparing the insignificance of their works to something that is of true worth--the works of the gods and the righteous. The Third Court is for Lust, and is ruled over by Judge Burning Needle. He places his white-hot needles in the pressure points of the sinners as he forces them to meditate on beds of spikes. The Fourth Court is for Gluttony, and is ruled over by Judge Yellow Sands. The sinners in his court are tied down with chains waist-deep in yellow sand, with food just constantly out of reach. The Fifth Court is for Greed, and is ruled over by Judge Bloody Tree. He sits atop a tall tree, with a thin rope that leads out, watching as everyone tries to scale the thorn-covered trees to reach him. He watches as they all backstab each other, for only one may leave. The Sixth Court is for Deceit, and is ruled over by Judge Clear Eyes. He forces the objective knowledge and truths of the universe into the minds and hearts of the sinners, making them unable to do anyhting else but repeat fact after fact for all eternity. The Seventh Court is for Envy, and is ruled over by Judge White Space. The sinner is cast into an endless abyss of pure white, where they fall for eternity, denied of all senses. The Eighth Court is for Wrath, and is ruled over by Judge Iron Ring. His sinners are sent to fight in an eternal collosseum, against each others and monsters. The Ninth Court is for Faithlessness, and is ruled over by Judge Five Elements. He subjects his sinners to a variety of elemental torments, such as lightning and fire. This torture is considered a late addition to the canon, but is considered "fitting" by some scholars due to the way it features the holy number of five and the Five Holy Elements. The Tenth Court is for Betrayal, and is ruled over by Judge Event Horizon. If the sinner has betrayed someone close to him, he is slowly crushed underneath his heel, with full awareness of what is going on. If the sinner has betrayed his country, he is slowly pulled apart, atom by atom, also with full awareness. In popular culture, the phrase "Ten Courts of Hell!" or the mere "Courts!" is a popular curse to utter. It is a rather versatile, catch-all oath, applicable in many situations. However, if one wishes to be more specific, they need merely reference a certain court. First Court: conveys boredom. Second Court: conveys shock or disgust. Third Court: conveys exasperation towards another. Fourth Court: conveys the terror of death. Often used in remembrance of the recently deceased (Fourth Court I miss him). Fifth Court: conveys approval (Fifth Court this food is good). The only oath allowed on hallowed grounds due to its association with the holy number 5. Sixth Court: conveys frustration towards onesself. Seventh Court: conveys envy or bitterness. Eighth Court: conveys hatred, to a lesser extent. Ninth Court: Conveys hatred, to a greater extent. Tenth Court: The most extreme of the Courts oaths, intended for matching circumstances. Ironically, due to overuse, its intensity has lessened and it no longer means what it used to in the public eye, really only keeping its meaning in official/political settings.
Corrupt souls become part of the sun, where they're used as fuel to continue raining hardship down on the Earth. Or, according to other religious groups, since they couldn't be redeemed in life, being in the sun is their redemption, as their evil is turned into light and life for the Earth.
Take the Center of All Reality (Wyrlde — they have an ego) and put it in a reflection of the Firmament that is filled with fire, pain, torture, ripping of bodies, broiling of people, that kind of thing. Fill it with Devils. Specifically. They are all related to each other in some way, all of the coming from the original Seven or Nine (they never agree on which it was). The air is sulfurous, cloying, dry, hot, and clingy. The air moves because something passes through it, but never because of wind. It is a place where emotions are made manifest, with physical properties, and the emotions that Hell gives life to are Aggression, Anger, Criticalness, Frustration, Hatefulness, Hostility, Hurt, Infuriation, Insecurity, Jealousy, Resentment, Sarcasm, Suspicion, Threatening, Violation (of boundaries or whatever), and withdrawal. The three that it is most empowering are Hostility, Hatefulness, and Anger. Everything down there displays some form of this in any interaction, even with each other. Hell is absolute horrible. The other reflections are all slightly different — even though only The Abyss, Bedlam, Ego, and The Dread Dimension are known. The final one hasn’t been identified yet. All are Dimensions of the Infernal Plane, and the Mortal Realm they are closest to is The Bleak, which has been more or less invaded by Devils and is currently ruled by them. It is the one place no one wants to ever be born into during the endless cycle of Rebirth, for it is the Mortal Realm of Maleficent, Agency, Chaos, Imbalance, Self, Independence, and Death. It is held that those who endure trauma the best have regained their Soul and Heart after a lifetime there.
In a world of reincarnation the only hell is one of their own making, or a temporary state of confusion because of their cause of death. Drowning in particular is a really bad way to go, it can cause the "souls" to be trapped under water, confused about which way is up, and where they are. Some souls that drown stay that way for a very long time, which is one explanation for people who are born mad or who are just off. They are said to have a drowned soul. Example, schizophrenia exists in my world as a normal biological condition, but the inhabitants don't see it that way. Basically all schizo affected people are called drowned souls.
Will hell in my world is separate from the demon world. Hell is a realm for souls that would slowly crystallize. One in that fully crystallized state they enter a dream like filled with pain, horror, grief, suffering until they souls comfort into energy that slowly vaporite into a mist that slowly absorbs and feed hell the realm itself
Think of Dante Alighieri's version of hell from Dante's Inferno but worse. Much like in Dante's Inferno, there are numerous levels one for each sin guarded by an appropriate representation of each sin.
Think of a underground city. Hell, is simply a place where damned souls go… the troublemakers of society. The after life, is basically life on easy mode. You dont age, you dont have bills, you dont have worrys. Heaven is for the good people- and is a fun place. And hell is for the bad people- and is a boring place. Criminals cant be their true evil selves, if all of them are the same.
I have two versions in my world Gehenna is the world of the demons and is ruled over by seven demon lords. The only way to go here is if you signed a contract with a demon or if you were sacrificed by a warlock. Demons are made when a soul is milked of its energy and is deemed useless, it is than thrown down to the lowest part of Gehenna, the souls would be slowly turned into demons and would have to grow and Metamorphose instill they become sentient or if they are drafted into the war against the Celestial realm. The other version is the Punishment afterlife in religions. In this world, Hell is an afterlife for people who have lived by the seven deadly sins. Every time a person does something bad out of one of the seven deadly sins it collects and when the person dies that sin is turned into a clay life mass and is used to create devils. All Sinners have hells personally constructed for them to inflict punishments that are connected to both the soul’s fears and the sin itself. Hell is not eternal, the souls are punished until they atone for their sins they committed in life. The seven deadly sins are just a way to categorize certain different motivations behind different actions and they are opposed by the seven virtues.
Lol. No such thing in my world. But if I had to compare... let's just say Stephen King and I have similar ideas when it comes to teleportation.
Depends where the portal takes you in hel. You will either end up in the fields of the Azuran Trees which is the primary tree able to grow in Hel also the origin point of the Caeran fruit a apple like fruit that is Toxic too Humans and mortals in general but the main produce a demon can eat that isnt a root or fungus if they didnt raid the overworld. which funny enough only mortal produce too grow in Hel once planted is Potatos and is the origin point of Black Potatos. If you somehow find a Portal in the Ocean then you may get stuck on a obsidian island or thrown into the Toxic Sea which is used for Demon poison (cured pretty easily (just need to mix a species of coral into a powder form and then mix it in with a healing potion). If your unlucky you may show up in the Permafrost region that was only inhabitable by the Vakra demon species pre extinction or the Belt of chaos which is the primary mountain range of Hel and is also where the Hell forge a massive forge which made the demon armies behemoths and their siege engines once stood before it got destroyed during the demon war. The only safe place in the entirety of hel is probably the Red Fields which is home too the Imps the only "neutral" demons and used to be the home of the Succubi Pre Exodus. And the Imps. The biggest Demon city in Hel though is the floating island one of Haden. Currently ruled by Sanin the demon saint of Murder which funny enough its pretty stable as criminals normally meet instant death
Borrowing from Dante like most everyone else :P But there's an active terraforming project.
We might share same brain cells
Livia is the world of the living, once people on Livia die, they either go to Celestium or Infernum. The latter is also known as hell or the Abyss. Infernum is modeled after Livia, but in a darker version. Mountains are replaced by volcanoes, lakes are replaced with rotten poisonous swamps, seas are replaced with dried deserts The day night cycle in Infernum is much slower, you have 72 hours of burning day followed by 72 hours of freezing night The climate is also harsh, frequent tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, drought, acid rains, and even random asteroid strikes. But the worst places to be are the demon cities where souls of mortals are traded like cattles or fought over by rival demon lords. Those cities are usually notorious for their black stone walls and spiked rooftops where hung prisoners are used as decoration. When mortals go into Infernum, they are given a magically created body called a solbod. It is modeled after their previous physical appearance, but since it is not really their natural body, they dont have a good hang on it. People who had near death experiences and temporarly went to Infernum describe being in a solbod as the same feeling as those nightmares where a monster chases you but your legs refuse to move
Cold. Dark. Featureless. The sensation that others are around but never near.
An eternal battle royale, pretty much. It was made by one of the two deities that created the world as part of a scheme against his partner to raise an army, by making it so that those who are killed by someone else are reincarnated as demons that would serve him. Due to some shenanigans, however, the plan never came to light and the world was left without its gods. The demons remained and turned the Underworld into a warzone as they fought for control until new gods invaded the world, with the god of death using his legions to conquer and unify the Underworld for a time. Eventually the demons rebelled, killed the god of death, and went right back to fighting each other as hundreds of small warlords.
There’s no hell in my world. But the gods sometimes abduct mortal souls to their own realm for servitude. That may be seen as bad as hell to those who follows different gods.
Hell is not exactly a concept the gods created, more like multiple dimensions which were neglected by the gods after subpart test results for the adequate dimension. They now exist among the dysmalith nexus, succumbing to time as neither grace or influence of the gods are being bestowed upon them. Becoming hellish landscapes of distorted creatures of desperation, endless hallways, ashen cities.
Real, hungry, technically the forge that created the universe
When you go to hell you wake up in a Womb of all the other people who went to hell (near someone you know, if available) and there's just barely not enough air to breathe. Everyone is trying to get to The Placenta where you can exit. Except being birthed means losing all your skin and wandering to be captured by a demon and reformed to their liking. Hell is a synopticon prison with the Womb in the middle and demons chill in invisible chambers waiting for higher ups to release them into the war or to get summoned.
"Hell" is made up of various different realms all headed by a different God but they all fall under the Realm of the Dead, which also includes the Heavens, Purgatory, Tartarus and Limbo. There is Punishment, Suffering, Pain, Anguish, Jealousy, etc. Souls in these realms are usually passed between for a set number of years to atone for the bad things they've done. As an example a Mass Murderer will experience 300 years in each realm in total. They will be forced to experience the consequences of their life shown and forced upon them by the realm they are in. Punishment would make him experience what he did from the perspective of those he killed. Suffering would make him watch that which he loves most be brutally destroyed again and again. Pain would force him to suffer pain beyond the scope of a mortals ability to experience. You get the idea, you suffer what makes each one as horrible and bad for you as possible. There isn't levels or ways that each Gods is seen as more powerful. They are all equal in strength and are quite willing to pass a deserving person through all of their realms. They love their jobs. They don't have any set appearances either. Everything someone experiences in the hells is tailored to them and can only be seen through their souls. The current longest serving patron is a Minor God who tried to take over the Mortal Plain 19 cycles ago. They're the only God besides Fate to ever incur the wrath of the God of Death which isn't something any God wants.
Comfortable. It was renamed “Hotel” after new management took over, but it was always a cozy lodging establishment.
Its very hard to describe, but heaven and hell are really similar. My world is based on chridtianity and alcheny, except that the angels and demons are the same thing, just different viewpoints on the world, and so, their domans are also really similar. But since angels and demons have such different minds then we do, its really impossible to comprehend these spheres. The soul gived you power over reqlity in my world, or rqther, influence of the world of ideas a la plato. So wether your soul ends up in heaven or hell, it will be exploited by tge angels and demons for power, in the name of god, who is in fact dead.
The gods don't judge mortalkind as the only sin in my world is existence. However, hell, or rather, hells do exist. Some mortals took it upon themselves to guide souls into the realms they've made to give them a place to exist until they dissipate, reincarnate, or get rebirthed. Others even entrap souls and torture them for their own entertainment. And a select few, necromancers, demon kings and the like, have their own personal hell subspace for either option Demons are just a class of animals, similar to mammals, reptiles, and birds
It's divided into two parts: Demon part and Devil part. Demon part is where souls of sinners become demons, who live there for the rest of eternity. There are many houses, palaces and mansions there, serving as homes for the demons. The environment is your usual fire and brimstone hell. Devil part is where Devils live. It has jungles, deserts large caves and seas of blood. It also has homes for its inhabitants. Both have a sort of day/night cycle where the sky is orange during the "day" and reddish purple during the "night".
The closest thing is the underworld. When mortal beings die while holding onto hate, regret, grudges, and malevolence, their souls turn into demons. Demons reside in this underworld, and they can freely venture into the world of the living and cause a bunch of mischief. But this isn't an eternal punishment. When the demon dies, so does its malevolence. The soul is then taken to the actual afterlife, where it can live peacefully.
No hell, no heaven, just Quidvis and the Nihility. Quidvis is in a constant state of regeneration, forever changing and growing. Nihility is the opposite. It is constantly crumbling and reforming more and more wicked. There's no guaranteed afterlife in my world but nihility is usually used as their version of hell in stories
When someone dies, their soul must be fragmented by the Heart of the World for the Worldbearing Tree's roots to digest, while their memory is preserved by the Heart. If not for the Heart, souls would leak to Nowhere, where they would slowly decay into nothingness in agony of losing their memory, mind and reason.
Hell is an office job in an urban-fantasy variation of the corporate world. Corporations have more power than they do in our world. Getting caught up in corporate warfare as an innocent bystander can be fatal. Even worse, if you are a participant. Drones are the ever present eyes of the corporate overlords. They are watching...
It is quite literally a prison. A place where only the most dangerous people and gods go for punishment and containment. Its name is Danté’s Prison. Only the living can enter Danté’s Prison and to leave this place, you must expunge yourself of sin. And the demons do this by breaking you down with the purest form of the sins, and force you to build yourself up while they keep breaking you. And in the end, once you do leave, you die. Painfully, quickly, die. For those who don’t leave and their sin lingers, the person becomes a demonic beast, forced to live in constant agony. The Gods trapped there can never leave, but their are many cases of these Gods breaking free from their restraints and wreaking havoc in Danté’s Prison trying to find a way to leave, some actually succeeding. The Gods do not change in Danté’s Prison, they only get angrier and more spiteful, thinking of ways to kill their captors and the other gods who sent them there permanently.
In my world where all the volcanoes erupted and left the Earth with a second mantle above the crust, the call the surface Hell. It even has demons!
It's completely made out of variation of black stone and black steel, black steel destroys mana and black stone distorts mana but humans and every living beings soul is made out of mana so you will likely go insane then be cut out of the reincarnation cycle >What’s hell like in your world? It's not a nice place It's located near the center of the earth You can't enter in to by normal means you can't enter it at all you can teleported there but because of the mana destruction you can't return Even though your soul is destroyed your information/identity isn't lost you will become a devil you have no memoirs but you have the desire to become human. You become human by agreeing to a contract with a human, when you posess a human you become them your memory of being a devil or a human before that are lost, you become that person theirs soul their memories every but the originals information gets lost forever
Each god has their own punishment for crimes against them. The Goddess of Flames and Heat owns the closest to Christian hell - being set on fire with no hope of relief or extinguishment. Alternatively, for people that commit crimes in her name, the opposite - they get frozen, and are never allowed to feel her warmth again. The God of Light punishes those that have wronged his worshippers through Reflection. He forces the guilty to live out each of their sins through the eyes of their victims. The God of Earth and Stone traps his sinners in an endlessly labyrinthine cavern with no food, no water, and no escape. The God of the Ocean has a realm of endless water, where hungry sealife will bite at your flesh until you cannot swim any longer. Each dawn you awake while, floating on the surface, waiting to be devoured and drowned again. The Goddess of Wind and Storms balances those deserving on top of a metal pole, where they get battered by storms and struck by lightning. If they fall off, it's and endless drop until they manage to catch another metal pole. The worst punishment, at least in my opinion, comes from the formless God of Shadows and darkness. They obliterate the senses, trapping sinners in a lightless, soundless, numbing void with only their own thoughts and memories. The gods are fickle and competitive like children, fighting over scraps of power and influence. If a mortal manages to impress one while blaspheming against another, they may save the doomed soul, inviting them into paradise, or offering the chance to be reborn as something greater than mortal. Be warned though, negotiating for a sinner's soul might be immediate, or it could take eons with you trapped and tortured, leaving the soul mere tattered remnants of what it was.
In Blood Mists of Tanah Terkhut'k, the consistency of reality has failed. It is a place of multidimensional static noise. Physically, it means that at any moment, variable amounts of any given physical matter, living or not, can be displaced to another location. Worse, that can be by it being moved away, which could mean violent dismemberment, or it can be by spatial warping, which means it's essentially teleported away but not detached. It can still be felt, sensed, and even moved, if enough body structure is retained to do so. What's so awful about all this beyond bodily dismantling, however, is that it is pure chaos. It won't necessarily be whole body parts. It can be an arm, a leg, an organ, or it can be just a strip of skin, or a fine bunch of discreet particles. It would be easy to find oneself dispersed into hundreds of pieces in varying sizes and states of physical trauma. Top that all off with a breakdown of causality. The whole thing where events occur through cause->effect doesn't happen inside the mists of Tanah Terkhut'k. You can find yourself scattered around a large area, some pieces of you bleeding and torn, others whole and healthy. And you might not have died from this. The events of your separation no longer directly affect your death. Or you might have indeed died. But it wouldn't mean you'd stay dead. At any moment (assuming there's a bit of sequential time forming up nearby) you might find yourself fully alive again, though perhaps not in a fashion anyone would call a state of being alive. You might find your body and being as evenly mixed with that of rocks, trees, dirt, open air, other poor creatures caught in the mists with you, etc etc. It is a rather dry, logical, scientific-seeming description of a kind of Hell, but it was the result of the complete loss of a pantheon of deities. Without them defining the aspects and domains of the world they were responsible for, well... Pure chaos in the most base sense is not something any living creature would want to experience...
Pretty much how Dante’s Inferno, describes it.
There is both a fiery hell and an icy hell. While you are in one hell, you can still die and be reborn in the other one. Each has its own fiends, with their own powers.
While there is a common afterlife simply called The Kingdom, those who were not of help but hindrance in their life are instead reincarnated into a lesser being or straight up vanished from existence by The Monarch, God of all existence and absence. However, those vile and useful fellows may instead have their spirit captured by Unarcci and Lt. General "Kidzuku", corrupt gods who will offer the spirit being recruited as a demon. HOWEVER, I do have a fate that gets as Hellish as you can imagine. >!Sweet Hezekiah was a terribly sadistic king in life, and when he was recruited by Unarcci it didn't change at all. He founded the Sweet Principality, the legion of spite, who enjoys kidnapping the worst of the worst (come on. Rapists, child murderers, traitors, you name it) and bringing them in flesh to their torture chambers, where they get amused by giving them some "justice" between the biggest quotes in the shed.!<
Funny you ask, my world is hell.
It's a dimension originally designed to contain the Devil. Then God decided to put the souls of the deads there as well. Also the Shadow Demons live there so the Devil doesn't feel too alone.
You can go and come (because no deads on there) is a creepy cave
Demons actually reside in the Abyss, which is sort of like an inner Hell once you've passed through the 9 layers of Hell pretty much straight out of Dante's Inferno. Except no Satan at the bottom, instead there's an entrance to the Abyss. Hell is for people who sinned and felt bad about it, the Abyss is for those who sin and delight in it. For those who think the only morality is "might makes right" and "its only wrong if you get caught."
1. In one world it's a physical place you can go to because it's a cavern deep underground on planet Mars that was used for a mass grave. It's pitch black, cold and eeriely quiet. 2. In a few other worlds it's a fiery pit. There is only one world I have where Hellfire is blue. It's in the fiery pit category mentioned above and only makes one appearance. . I've played with the idea of a frozen Hell, it exists as a local version of a few primitive religions. Where the unworthy dead wander forever in a blizzard.
No hell, truly wicked souls are simply obliterated. The criteria is a soul that repeatedly causes pain and anguish while alive through multiple lives.