9 Circles of Hell with Environments/Character Ideas

Limbo

        - Waiting room, enter by using a limbo pole and going through a tiny door.

        - Statue

        - Dentist/doctors room

        - Simple designs, bland walls and simple carpet. NO INTRICATE DESIGNS

        - Elevator

        - Spinning minus statute, seen as the decider 

        - Simple doors with symbols eg. Cow ect……

        - Limbo magazines on a small table, references to the room

        - Lift to drop the character into limbo, comedic element having elevator music

Lust

- Phallic Tower
- Props could be a throne to show the hierarchy and Chains/Hooks
- Using the idea of lust to connect it to money, set in a Casino - characters chained to a roulette wheel as it constantly spinning 
- Symbol is a cow and colour blue
- Souls burned by fire and brimstone (demons throwing rocks)
- Main Characters: Cleopatra, any famous adulter
- Demons: Lust, Asmodeus and the temptresses 
- Make a connection with Adam and Eve, the apples could replace the fire and brimstones

Gluttony

-  Organs and human waste
-  Souls
-  Mouths coming out of the wall
- Addicts
- Floor of people
- Cerberus hell hound (could be invisible)
- Could have the door with a dog head either side, the character opens the door and the dog attacks. - See three heads without modelling them

Greed

- Guard (hades) plutus, don’t annoy him!!
- Weight of weapons on their chest
- Lose their identity, all the characters look the same
-  Scales
-  Jousting with weapons

Anger

- Sullen Drowning, wrathful fighting on the water
- Swamp

     Heresy

     
- Hell, the circle with the most connection with the image of hell
- Flaming tombs
- CITY OF DIS, road sign
- Large walls, city but its in ruins
- Spiral city
- Have the 7^th and 8^th door fade away so he can go straight to 9

Violence

- Minotaur, 3 rings of violence
- Outer ring, plegathon – river of boiling blood. Voilence against others
- Centaurs, bows and arrows, Statues
- Violence against themselves, suicide. Woods, souls are turned to trees. Harpies to rip at the leaves. - Look at their bodies forever on Judgment Day.
- Violence against god, nature and art. Desert, fire falling like snow
- Trees could have faces carved into the wood rather than hanging bodies

Fraud

- Cliff
- Creature, sphinx like design
- Bridges destroyed

The ten ditches of the Malebolge are:-

- Panderers and Seducers: "The panderers and seducers will spend eternity beaten, prodded and whipped by Lucifer's lieutenants."

-  Flatters: "My brethren in the Malebolge, we flounder in sewage and waste."

- Simony: "Sellers of favors, crimes against the church. They are trapped in baptismal baths, their feet eternally in flames."

- Diviners: "The fortune tellers should have known that they cannot see with the eyes of God. They walk with their heads backwards, their eyes awash in tears."

- Grafters: "Great, winged demons tend to the grafters, who stole and embezzled in life. They are thrown into deep, vile pits."

- Hypocrites: "The cloaks of the hypocrites appear regal and noble, and yet worn as punishment, each lined with crippling lead."

- Thieves: "Thieves are held and bitten by serpents. The venom burns them to ash only so they may reform and suffer again."

- Evil Counselors: "Evil advisers who used their forked-tongues for counsel serving their own ends. They stand ablaze."

- Sowers of Discord: "They hold their heads and innards, the chaos they caused in life, cast upon them in death."

- Falsifiers: "All thoughts of pain and suffering fall upon the falsifiers. Hear their wailing and be warned."

Treachery

-   Final Circle

-   Divided into four areas “rounds”

-   From Fraud you have giants that you can see from the waist up, to carry people to the final circle

-   Antaeus

-  First Round, Caina. Traitors to kindred incased in ice up to their chin.

- Second Round, Antenora. Traitors to their cities, partial entities. Same Punishment as above.

-  Third Round, Ptolomaea. Traitors to the guests, lay in the ice only the face is showing.

- Fourth Round, Traitors to their lords and benfactors. Completely incased in ice and deformed.

-   Centre of hell lives Satan, three faces one black, red and pale yellow. Brutus and Cassius are feet first in the left and right mouths of satan, Judas has his head chewed by satan and forever having his back scratched by Satans claws.
- Ice bridge and frozen river. Colours could be blue or green