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Im loving the story of Dante's Inferno and I'm loving how you're building it but i still want to give some info on the next rings of hell

Gluttony - Still a desert but the dark air is continuously hit through by cursed rain made of big pieces of hail, dirty water and snow. So much so that the ground that receives the rain smells horribly.
Cerberus can be found here, he has red eyes, a wet beard and a large underbelly.
With his long nails he scratches the souls, flays them, tears them.
Their punishment is: they lie in the nauseating slime, hit by a continuous rain of dirty water, snow and hail.

The avar (avarice) and the prodigals - divided into two ranks, the first turn in the semicircle on the left and the second in the one on the right. They push giant boulders with their chests and when they meet, they accuse each other of their guilt. And then they start turning in the opposite direction again, until they meet again and so on forever.
They dedicated their lives to accumulating or squandering wealth, therefore to useless lives. And in Hell they are punished by pushing large boulders back and forth.

The wrathful and the angry - The first are in a swamp and they beat each other and kill each other, the second are submerged in the slimy swamp

This ring of hell is just a big swamp

Heretics - Im going to take directly from the book: On a red-hot tower, the three Furies (Megera, Aletto and Tesifone) scream, scratch their chests and call on Medusa to come and turn the living visitor to stone.
The sixth ring is basically a city, the City of Dis. It's a desolated plane littered with scorching and uncovered tombs.
The moans and cries of the heretics rise in the air, distinguished into their different sects.
In the VI ring, they lie in fiery tombs. The gravity of the sin regulates the intensity of the flames that envelop the tomb. Since many of them, especially the Epicureans, denied survival after death, their souls are treated like corpses and therefore buried in a cemetery of scorching tombs.

The violent - A precipice separates the sixth circle from the seventh, that of the violent, which is divided into three circles. In the first, those who are violent against others, that is, murderers and robbers, are punished; in the second, those who are violent against themselves, that is, suicides and squanderers, and in the third, those who are violent against God, that is, blasphemers, sodomites and usuarists.
There is a river of boiling blood in which the violent against others are immersed at different depths, depending on their acts.
On the shore are their guardians, the Centaurs.
Over the river there is a forest of shrubs and twigs with Harpies nesting in the branches.
Here the suiciders are transformed into shrubs or small trees. The squanderers run without clothes, chased and torn to pieces by ravenous black female dogs. Running they run into the trees, snapping their branches, giving more pain to the suiciders.
Finally after the forest there are the violent against God.
The damned, naked and desperate, find themselves on a sandbank made incandescent by the burning rain falling from above.
The blasphemers suffer, motionless and lying on the sand, the rain of fire.
The sodomites, divided into groups, advance relentlessly on the sand, targeted by the rain of fire.
Finally, the usurers sit on the extreme edge of the seventh circle, under the rain of fire.

Because the fraudulent are so many ill just explain the location other than their punishment.
The Fraudulent - The eighth circle is crossed by ten concentric ditches, the ditches, joined by rock bridges. The color of iron dominates that place, which has a very deep well in the center.
The first ditch is that of the ruffians and the seducers, two groups proceeding in opposite directions: the seducers next to the internal bank and the ruffians next to the external one. The sinners, naked, are forced to run, under the blows of the devils' lashes.
In the second ditch there are the flatterers, who are immersed in dung.
In the third ditch are the simoniacs. Stuck in holes with their heads downwards, the soles of their feet are licked by flames.
In the fourth ditch, the soothsayers serve their sentence, with their heads turned backwards.
The fifth ditch is that of the barters. They lie in the boiling pitch and, if they try to escape, they are driven back into the pitch by the hooked sticks of the Malebranche, black devils with wings.
In the sixth ditch are the hypocrites. These damned move slowly as they wear very heavy lead capes, golden on the outside.
In the seventh ditch the thieves are found. They run naked among the snakes, which tie their hands behind their backs and inflict all kinds of torment on them. And every time a snake bites a dammed, he turns to ashes, but then returns to how he was before.

The eighth ditch, the ambient changes a bit: from the place littered with rocks and stones, to a camp filled with lights.
Naturally you need to cross a bridge to get here.
Here you can also find the figure of Ulysses.
Here there are fraudulent advisors, but the place is littered with flames and each one represents a soul.
In the ninth ditch of the eighth circle there are the sowers of discord. They run relentlessly and a devil cuts their bodies with his sword, which immediately recompose only to be mutilated again.
Seen from above, from the bridge, the ditch therefore appears like immense carnage.
In the final ditch there are the counterfeiters.
This ditch is an immense flat land where the counterfeiters are terribly disfigured by horrendous diseases, depending on the forgery they have carried out.

Here's how the eighth ditch looks like, the entrance at least:
The rest of the circle looks like a ditch with big stone walls, like a cave but with open ceiling.

Traitors - The ninth circle is divided into 4 sectors, the Caina, the Antenora, the Tolomea and the Giudecca
The first area looks like an immense expanse of ice where the Cocito river is. Traitors of relatives serve their sentences here. They are immersed in ice and their faces are turned downwards and their tears are flowing downwards.
Then there is Antenora, here traitors to their homeland serve their sentences. They are also immersed in ice but have their faces turned upwards.
Then there is Ptolemy, here are the traitors of friends, they lie supine under the ice with their faces turned upwards, so that the tears, freezing in the cavities of their eyes, prevent them from finding vent in crying.
Just as in life their hearts were so hard and cold as to betray the people closest to them, so now they are immersed in ice.

The final zone, the deepest depths of hell, the Giudecca.
This land, unlike the areas above, is completely made of ice.
Here the traitors of the benefactors are completely submerged in ice. Some lie in a horizontal position, others are in a vertical position. Some have caps at the top, others have the soles of their feet and still others are curved in an arch.
Here is Lucifer, his size is so enormous that a giant is smaller than his arm, more than a man of normal height is smaller than a giant.
Its huge head has three faces of different colors: one red, one black and one yellowish. At each of them, two enormous wings emerge, similar to those of bats, which generate the wind that freezes the Cocito river.
And the tears that fall from the six eyes of Lucifer mix with the blood of the three greatest traitors.
Only the legs of the traitor of Christ, Judas, can be seen. And Lucifer, in addition to mangling him with his central mouth, also tears his back with his nails.
Then there are the traitors of the empire.
The first is Brutus, the most guilty, given his family connection with Caesar. His head hangs from Lucifer's black mouth and he writhes without a single moan escaping him.
The second is Cassius, the conspirator who participated, with Brutus, in the assassination of Caesar and who hangs from Lucifer's yellowish face.
Behind Lucifer is the exit from Hell and the entrance into the purgatory.

I’m working on Heresy right now, but I don’t know if i’m going to do your exact suggestion because I don’t want to take it directly from Divine Comedy

I wrote the next circle, it was quite big and hard to translate, so make it worth my time.

Dont worry, i just givin info!!

You don't have to be completely 1:1

Do as you wish!

Just that the souls are tormented by fire

tsym
to make sure i won’t lose this link, i’m going to downvote this, not because i don’t like it, but because if i upvote this it’ll probably get covered up by all the other posts i upvote

I will post more info

DONE, NINTH RING DONE