Broken Gifts -> The Rings

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The First Ring The First Ring of Hell consists of green fields and white Mediterranean-style villas arranged in walled complexes with a squat classical look to them, some quite large. They are not arranged in any order but the overall effect is pleasing. In the First Circle the ground is firm, grassy and pleasant. The air is clean and fresh, as at the top of a mountain (that is, entirely unlike that in the rest of Hell). The First Circle is encompassed by a "hemisphere of light", representing Reason. As one travels into the depths of Hell, less and less light is seen.	0	0	-- In: ---- By:
The Second Ring In the second ring are punished those who sinned by excess of sexual passion, those souls who in life made pleasure their hope, with reason and love of God second. Since this is the most natural sin and the sin most nearly associated with love, its punishment is the lightest of all to be found in Hell proper.	0	0	-- In: ---- By:
The Third Ring A great storm of putrefaction falls incessantly in this circle, a mixture of stinking snow and freezing rain, which forms into a vile slush underfoot. Everything about the Circle suggests a gigantic garbage dump. The souls of the Damned Lie in the icy paste, swollen and obscene, and Cerberus, the ravenous three-headed dog of Hell, stands guard over them, ripping and tearing them with his claws and teeth.	0	0	-- In: ---- By:
The Fourth Ring In this circle, a flat plain of hard-baked clay, the sinners are divided into two raging mobs, each soul among them straining madly at a great boulder-like weight, representing their material wealth in life. The two mobs meet clashing their weights against one another, one side screaming 'Why hoard?', the other side 'Why waste?'. After meeting the mobs separate, pushing the great weights apart, and begin all over again. Upon closer examination it can be seen that these weights are actually huge faceted diamonds, their surfaces dulled by time.	0	0	-- In: ---- By:
The Fifth Ring This circle consists of a stinking swamp, mostly hidden by thick fog. The swamp is only ankle-deep, but slimy and thoroughly unpleasant. There are low-hanging trees and bushes dotted about. This circle is home to two types of sinner, the wrathful and the sullen.	0	0	-- In: ---- By:
The Sixth Ring This circle holds those condemned for Brutishness or Bestiality, the morbid states in which what is naturally repulsive becomes attractive. The guardian of this circle is the Minotaur, which normally lets no-one pass easily, but who suffers from fits of rage, during which he can be avoided.	0	0	-- In: ---- By:
The Seventh Ring This Circle includes the second class of frauds, those who are traitors by means of complex or treacherous fraud or malice. The landscape here is the frozen Pool of Cocytus, and is "more like a sheet of glass than frozen water". The slightest breeze leeches all the warmth from one, and nothing will help one to shelter from the cold. The wind whips up to sweep those unworthy back to where they belong in Hell, leaving the worthy behind.	0	0	-- In: ---- By:

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