Hell (Earth-3838)

Hell is a dimension of the universe where dead souls go after their life on the physical plane is over.

Warning: Major revision in progress.

History

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Overview

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Sovereignty

• Dis Pater: Dis Pater, also known as Hades or Pluto, is the god of the underworld and death as the ruler of Ruhara.
  • Enzo Santillá-Pérez: As the first-born demigod child of Hades, he is Dis Pater's heir to the throne of the underworld. Currently, he is the crowned prince, boasting somewhat limited authority over his father's subjects and domain.

Other

1. Ferryman: Sekhmet welcomes the souls, judges them, and ferries them to their final resting place.
2. Gatekeeper: Osiris is the gatekeeper of the Duat, an intersectional plane of existence as the crossroads between Aaru and Ruhara. Osiris protected the gates and prevented souls from escaping.
3. Mercurious: Mercurious escorts the souls of the deceased into the Underworld, without him, the souls would be trapped on the mortal plane.

Afterlife process

Once a person dies, either by reaching its natural end or by accident/fatal trauma, their corporal body sheds its immortal soul which is then escorted by Mercurious into the Duat through the Gates of Osiris.

In the Duat, the soul must face a number of challenges in order to reach the welcoming by the Ennead Sekhmet, on a Skiff, who removes the metaphysical heart of the person and places it on the scales of justice to measure with a feather. If the heart is lighter than the feather, found worthy, Sekhmet would summon a doorway into the Aaru where they are greeted with 'eternal happiness' in a paradise of their own making - heaven manifesting as whatever they envision it as. If the heart is heavier, the soul will be cast into the sand desert of Duat being dragged by souls of the damned where they petrify into a statue and their essence drift down to Ruhara. If the heart is balanced or equal with the feather, they are delivered into the fields of Asphodel where they have a mediocre afterlife. They have until the end of the boat journey to determine their eternal fate.

The journey of the boat was designed to give the souls a small time frame to evaluate their life, confront regrets and guilt, relive and accept their worst moments. To atone for unfinished business.

Realms/Locations

• Gates of Osiris: The Gates of Osiris is the entry/exit point of the afterlife. They are apart of a massive structure, with no surroundings, and have four statue figures carved beside the doors. The door is massive and requires the power of a God (or demigod) to open. Furthermore, besides from being the entrance to the Duat, it is also the exit - a way mortal souls can return to life in their original bodies which are then given a second chance. Apparently, Osiris does not like other gods using his gate to go against the balance of nature and will retaliate fiercely.

• Duat: The Duat, also called Neter-khertet, Tuat, Akert, or Amenthes, is an astral 'world between worlds'. It manifests as a sea of sand, a barren desert where the sun never shines but there's still light. The sky is covered in clouds with some yellow light occasionally being visible through them. Sekhmet has control over the Duat but is still bound by the natural laws of the balance between life and death.

• Ruhara: Ruhara, also called Underworld, Mictlan, or Pandemonium, is Hellish damnation ruled over by Dis Pater. It is eternal punishment. Notable torture includes intense temperature that gets one degree higher every time a soul thinks about it, terrible queues, acid pit, ground that feels like stepping on broken glass, lava pit, boiling lake of blood and fire where they get shot with poison-tipped arrows if anyone tries to inch up out of the water, starving, hanging by rope while being repeatedly impaled, etc.
  • Tartarus: Tartarus is the deepest, darkest realm of the Underworld. Guarding it, is a three headed wolf named Cerberus, who can breathe fire. Tartarus can only be accessed two ways: 1. the Lake of Acheron, 2. some divine beings can teleport there. It is seen as an endless expanse of darkness, a crushing darkness, a suffocating darkness, a consuming darkness, where the residents can feel the presence of others, but could not see or hear them unless born of god-blood. Time also moves differently within the dimension, 1 month on Earth feels like Millennium but no one can age inside there. Tartarus can also create personalized prisons to torture specific monsters or individuals trapped within. Furthermore, the eternal darkness also reflects the worst insecurities, fears, etc, of the inhabitants creating intense despair and misery.
• Fields of Asphodel: The Fields of Asphodel was where the souls of people who lived mediocre lives remain. It is a land of utter neutrality. That is, while the inhabitants were in life neither good nor evil, so they are treated in the afterlife. All residents drink from the river Lethe as instructed by the god Lemosyne before entering the fields, thus losing their identities. For some, Mnemosyne permits them to approach and drink from the blood of her veins. Then they recall everything and are sorrowful.

Cacodemon

The 'Cacodemon' race is a supernatural species, native to the underworld. There are many different classes of Cacodemons such as:

1. Baal-Satyr
2. Hesiod
3. Eudemonia
4. Jackals
5. Hellhounds

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Afterlife process

When an individual dies, their soul drifts into 'the veil'. The Veil is a plane of incorporeal existence, mirroring the natural world. It is what allows ghosts to walk the Earth. Ishim guide and escort souls into the realm of Limbo.

Once in Limbo, the soul undergoes evaluation where the total point score for all their actions/decisions while alive is counted in terms of positive or negative effect on the universe. A second evaluation revolves around the guilt one feels for their actions, either conscious or unaware of it.

Lost and confused souls of mortals can roam the island-like purgatory for eternity forever trying to make their way back to Charon and prove worthy of peace but rarely succeeding. In truth, Limbo is designed to force souls to confront their guilt and flaws in order to prove if they are worthy of entering Heaven, to atone for the mistakes of their life. This is typically in the form of making amends with someone they had wronged and either being forgiven or accepting another person's apology. Once this has happened, a gold coin is presented to the person where they can then present it to the Ferryman. If a soul finds some other way to release their guilt, then it is also possible to acquire a gold coin.

If a person has done enough good in their life, then they are automatically escorted through the gate by the Ishim where they are ferried along the River Styx by the Ferryman Charon who can deliver them to Paradise. If a person has lived their life hurting others or doing wrongs and feels no regret or guilt about it, then they are ferried to eternal suffering automatically.

Leaders

• Hell-Lords: A group of extremely powerful beings who form an administrative council with each member being in control of their respective 'Hell' dimensions. From time to time they meet to discuss issues concerning the infernal population and Hell itself.
  • Lucifer: Originally, Lucifer was an angel more precisely one of the Enochs created by the One Above All before Lucifer rebelled and became the One below All - God's counterpart in Hell.
  • Mephisto: Also known as Mephistopheles, he is a former angel who allied himself with Lucifer against the One Above All and was banished from paradise gaining a demonic form and corrupted powers. It has been claimed he is the demon representing the sin of lust which could explain why his daughter has powers similar to a succubus.
  • Hela: Though not technically a demon but rather an Asgardian, she was banished to a realm of Hell by Odin where she rose to power and stole a seat on the Hell-Lord council. She is known as the Forger of weapons and the goddess of death, the one who taught humans the weapons of war. She represents the sin of Wrath.
  • Marduk: The King of Necromancers and a prince of dark magic. The demon sin of Greed, ruler of Limbo and the one who made a pact with Baba Yaga.
    • Ferryman: A position held by special psychopomps. The Ferryman controls the boat to sail across the River Styx and transports souls to their final resting place, either Heaven or Hell.
      • Charon: A creature capable of traversing dimensional planes and is incredibly powerful, with him boasting control over Limbo albeit to a lesser extent than Marduk.
  • Blackheart: False son of Mephisto who was modeled out of clay and imbued with life from Mephisto's rib who was later granted a seat on the council by his father. He is the demon of shadows, who is rarely summoned, and represents the sin of Envy.
  • Belial: The Prince of Tricksters and charlatans as well as the ruler of Diyu. He is the demon representing the sin of Sloth.
  • Asmodeus: The Demon representing the sin of Pride and who rules the dimension of Gehenna, guarding Shuma-Gorath.
  • Chthon: A Demonic Elder-God, master of dark magic and chaos, and the ruler of the realm of Idumea.
• Chaos Lords: A group of the highest order of 'demons', surpassing even the Hell-Lords, except the One Below All, and who exist solely to reign down chaos and destruction upon the multiverse.
  • Shuma-Gorath: A tentacled god-like demon belonging to the "old ones", a group of eldritch terrors. He resides in Gehenna, under lock and key but can still be summoned at least in part.
  • Dormammu: An immense being of incredible stature and power who rules a vast dimension tied to Hell itself and is described as a realm of never-ending darkness, devoid of any form of light and warmth while Dormammu is an entity called a Faltine, comprised of pure raw magic, who seeks to absorb the universes with the most magic users in order to increase his own might. There is only one Dormammu in the Multiverse as the Dark Dimension is a multiversal realm, connected to each universes' version of Hell.
  • Oblivion: One of "old ones", a group of eldritch terrors, he represents non-existence, darkness and is a counter-force to the expanding universe and the life that dwells within.
  • Surtur: An ancient enemy of Odin and a creature of pure infernal magma, ruling over a brand of demons, boasting massive size and pyrokinetic power bordering on a lesser nigh-omnipotence scale.

Realms

Hell consists of multiple “circles” which are sub-realms being ruled by the Hell-lords, one each realm, and additionally another realm belongs to Dormammu which is referred to as the "Dark Dimension".

1. Edom - A barren wasteland with a hellish climate ruled by Mephisto and inhabited by his subjects. Souls of the damned traverse the ground of this realm enduring the endless sun with no water or food and being tormented by passing demons.
2. Dudael - Ruled by the asgardian goddess of death Hela and contains the weapons and knowledge of Hell. The only souls located in this realm are the dishonoured Asgardians.
3. Diyu - The “metropolitan” district of Hell is also referred to as the “city of pandemonium” which appears as a demonic twisted version of a human city. Ruled by Belial with human souls labouring for eternity with no rest. This realm apparently has “wifi” and a “Netflix” that shows what's happening on earth.
4. Sheol - A vast and dark realm filled with obsidian corridors and ash raining from the sky. Blackheart rules this realm and its purpose is to psychologically and physically torture the souls of deceased individuals from various species.
5. Idumea - Sand realm filled with individual lakes where the damned face eternal drowning and electrocution. Ruled by Chthon.
6. Purgatory/Limbo - Ruled by Marduk. Limbo is a purgatory-like plane of existence, seemingly bordering near Heaven while tethered to the other realms of Hell. It is the First Circle of Hell where souls go before they are judged to go to Heaven or Hell. Once judged, the souls go through the gate where they are ferried along the River Styx by the Ferryman Charon who can deliver them to potentially any dimension. However, lost and confused souls of mortals can roam the island-like purgatory for eternity forever trying to make their way back to Charon and prove worthy of peace but rarely succeeding. By all appearances, it reflects the natural world devoid of the living yet has a red sky and onyx-like landscape indicating that netheranium is very common here. At least one location has a body of water referred to as the River Styx which is populated by Charon and his boat. While some parts of Limbo seem desolate, other places is teeming with scores of lost souls, both human and supernatural alike.
7. The Void - The lowest dimension of Hell where the One Below All resides on his throne.
8. Dark Dimension: The Dark Dimension is a vast dimension tied to Hell's foundations and ruled by the Chaos Lord Dormammu. It is a strange and hostile dimension, being an amalgamation of itself and all other dimensions Dormammu had conquered and absorbed into it. Time does not exist in the Dark Dimension in the same way it does within the regular universe. This allows it to be the power source of life-extending spells and the removal of mortality, at times, giving sorcerers superhuman abilities beyond their magic.
9. Gehenna - Ruled by Asmodeus where he is entrusted to watch over the Cage of the Shuma-Gorath.

Army

1. Generals - Bathory, Ghost Rider, and Rogwan.
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Sorcerer Supremes

Like Earth, each Hell dimension has its own supreme magician referred to as "Sorcerer Supreme" or "Sorceress supreme".

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4. Sheol: TBA
5. Idumea: TBA
6. Edom: Zoe or Damien Helstorm - Damien is first in line for the title but both of them have the choice to become the Sorcerer Supreme of Mephisto's realm as both possesses magic in addition to cambion abilities. Uniquely, as his children also, they are secondly his heirs to the throne meaning one could ascend to the title of Hell-Lord while the other becomes the supreme.
7. Dark Dimension: Nicolette Minoru

Demons

Some demons were former humans with particularly malevolent personalities who were converted into Demons by exposure to Hell's fire over centuries if not thousands of years. The oldest and most powerful of them have the ability to "mark" human hosts allowing for their immediate possession upon the death of their current host.

Demons possess humans to grow stronger. They feed off their victim's energy until the body burns itself out; an analogy is that they steal the victim's soul for themselves. They also feed off the negative emotions they elicit from others. A hybrid's soul is described as so endless that one can sustain themselves on it for thousands of years while using their full might so long as they are suitably compatible enough.

Some demons, known as Keepers, are a rare breed that turned on their kind and specialize in preventing other demons from causing mayhem. Their remains or artefacts made from their remains can neutralize demons for limited periods of time depending on the target's power.

It has been stated that Demons are pure energy who cannot be killed by virtually any means since Energy cannot be destroyed nor created only transferred and transformed. However, Blades from Edom are able to eradicate their essence due to being born from the same fire and metal from their place of rebirth.

A demon can be reborn with their true body under extreme circumstances thereby freeing them from the need to possess a human upon visits to Earth and enables them to draw more energy from Hell to fuel their abilities, making them stronger. Kthara was able to be reborn by having the demon-human cambion son of Mephistopheles AKA Damien helstorm have sex with her former vessel while he was possessed by another demon.

The common abilities of a demon is as follows: Nigh-true immortality (existing as a state of perpetual spiritual energy, they cannot be killed by anything but mystic forces), possession of lesser species, superhuman physical characteristics such as strength and speed or durability as well as stamina, some degree of pyrokinesis (varies), and extrasensory perception. More coveted abilities include: Biokinesis, telekinesis, necromancy, telepathy, and photokinesis among others.

Unique Demons

There is a category of demonic entities who belong to the highest possible order of infernal spirits below the Hell-Lords and usually serve as a faustian fiend to mortal sorcerers. The main difference between common demons and this breed is that they have significant mystic power comparable to divine gods. It is nevertheless possible for common demons to ascend to such a position after having consumed sufficient quantity of soul energy.

1. Ikonn - Demon of illusions and mental trickery
2. Ikthalon - Demon of cold and ice
3. Balthakk - Demon of energy specifically heat
4. Mokarr - Demon of restriction
5. Farallah - Demon of the hunt and transport
6. Morpheus - Demon of sleep and dreams, commonly associated with greek mythology.
7. Raggadorr - Demon commonly invoked for protection or barrier spells
8. Cyttorak - Demon usually invoked to bind enemies using strong and large red-glowing metallic bands or protective shields or combat magic.
9. Imhotep - Demon commonly associated with Egyptian mythology and used to invoke the Shield of Imhotep or the Spear of Imhotep.

Known Hybrids

1. Damien Helstorm - (son of Mephisto)
2. Zoe Helstorm - (daughter of Mephisto)
3. Danielle Ketch - (daughter of Lucifer)
4. Danny Ketch - (son of Lucifer)
5. Nico Elyan Shade - (son of Blackheart)

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