ULTRAKILL LORE

1. #1Hell

   Keys: Hell

   Hell is a place regarded in various religions as a spiritual realm of evil and suffering, where those whose souls were deemed wicked are punished for all eternity.

   Hell, as a place, is a collection of various unpleasant places layered on top of eachother, each one having a different theme and aesthetic. Each layer has its own sky, despite being under a different layer; this is because the layers of Hell are abstract concepts of space, rather than actual locations. Think of it as a upside down pain-flavored wedding cake of incomprehencible size.

   Hell does not exist in space and nowhere at the same time, nor does it occupy space, which seems to further prove its chaotic and physics-denying nature. At the same time, its completely formless abstract and science-denying nature is still not comprehended by humans.

   Hell is mainly inhabited by the Husks, who are formed from the souls of the damned. Under normal circumstances, they are doomed to suffer eternally for their own crimes. However, when intelligent enough or led by the right people, they can escape their eternal torture or simply refuse to undergo it.

   To prevent this, Angels (specifically, those who came from human souls) are sent down to act as wardens; punishing the rebellious damned with heavenly fire.

   There is also a whole new species that exists exclusively in Hell: the Demons, who are made from the very mass Hell is composed of. They seem to exist for the purpose of defending hell and keeping an eye on the damned. They are extremely hostile and very protective of their natural habitat, to the point where it is nigh impossible to research them safely.

   After the discovery of this terrible place and the subsequent exploration of it, certain Machines were sent down to aid humanity with the expeditions. Even though the Hell Exploration and Excavation project has long since ended, some of them are still down there, abandoned and fighting for their survival. Yet former scouts aren't the only Machines who reside in the Inferno: deep down, in the 7th layer, machines who were thought to be long extinct dwell and fight each other forevermore.

   Hell has nine layers and one main entrance. Each circle has its own unique punishment, growing worse the lower a layer is placed.

   It is very important to note that all punishments in Hell are ETERNAL.

2. #2Mouth of Hell

   Keys: Mouth of Hell

   While it may not be an actual layer of Hell, it serves as a vestibule to the city of eternal woe.

   Somewhere in the past, humanity discovered the Mouth of Hell, and began work there. They built massive facilities filled with mines, lights, and futuristic power tools. It is clear that something related to Hell was once excavated here. Nowadays, it is abandoned, with the creatures and the statues standing guard at the former working place.

   Despite its desolate state, all tools and machinery remain perfectly functional. The drills and fans are still spinning, destroying whatever may come in physical contact with them. The power crushers pulverize whatever they can, the round heaters melt and scorch the processed matter delivered unto them by the still-running conveyor belts. The molten substance that results from the automated labor then flows in the deepest parts of the factory.

   And in those deepest sections of the facility stands the Gate of Hell, shut firmly. Waiting to be opened once again.

3. #3Limbo

   Keys: Limbo · Secondary:

   Limbo is the first official layer of Hell. The souls in this layer are not guilty of committing any particular sins, but instead are simply those who died without knowing the word of God and are forced to spend eternity within this layer. Limbo is a false paradise where everything within the layer is fake. The trees and grass aren't real, the water is a hologram, the sounds of birds are simulated using speakers, and the sky is just a projection. It is also implied that some of the background music is actually playing on-loop for all eternity.

4. #4Lust

   Keys: Lust · Secondary:

   Lust is the second layer of Hell, in-between Limbo and Gluttony. This layer is reserved for the souls who desired sexual activity above all else. The second layer of Hell was a near-inhospitable landscape. The ground was barren with a purplish dust, and vast, stagnant rivers of lavender-colored water ran throughout the wastes. The ground was fairly flat, a veritable desert of dust. The "sky" of this layer was a deep purple, with black clouds usually blotting the atmosphere. The pressure from the clouds created a constant, unending hurricane.

   The winds were so strong that many sinners caught in the winds had their skin ripped off of their skulls as they were blown around. The punishment was torture by the winds, as giant crowds and masses of lustful sinners were needlessly whipped around by the winds. This punishment was meant to evoke the careless lives that the sinners lead, not caring what acts they did, the perversion of their souls landed them in this layer. Lightning constantly struck the hodgepodge of writhing sinners. The winds were always cold and unpredictable, and many sinners have been slammed onto the dusty ground and then picked back up again, entrails flying.

   However, Minos thought that eternal suffering was too cruel for those whose only sin was excessive sexual appetite. As such, when the angels pulled out of Hell during the crisis in Heaven caused by the Disappearance of God, ushered in the Lust renaissance, during which time the layer was converted into a massive city where the buildings would protect the husks within from public indecency laws. This renaissance was abruptly halted when Gabriel slew Minos, causing the parasites within him to begin controlling his corpse and destroying the landscape. What remains of the once great city of Lust is now dilapidated, empty, and crumbling under lack of maintenance.

5. #5Gluttony

   Keys: Gluttony

   Gluttony is the third layer of Hell, located between Lust and Greed. Gluttony is reserved for souls who have overindulged in consuming excess supplies of food and drinks. The souls of this layer are forced to spend all of eternity being slowly digested alive in stomach acid. This layer is notable in that its entrance is located inside The Corpse of Minos. When Minos was killed by Gabriel, his soul became trapped within this layer and then trapped inside the Flesh Prison, a strange construct forged by the angels to prevent it from forming into a Prime Soul.

6. #6Greed

   Keys: Greed

   Greed is the fourth layer of Hell, located between Gluttony and Wrath. This layer is reserved for the souls who coveted wealth above all else in life. This layer is covered in a desert of gold dust, with a large sun that heats up the dust until it sets fire to those who touch it. The punishment of this layer is that the husks within must carry heavy boulders up the monuments of mankind's hubris for all eternity. While the largest and most prevalent of these monuments are the pyramids, there also exists the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower. A number of husks have adapted to this layer, most notably the Stalkers who have adapted to carrying heavy boulders and walking on superheated dust. There was an insurrection in Greed led by King Sisyphus and his army of Sisyphean Insurrectionists. After training his army in secret, Sisyphus used the disappearance of the angels to begin attacking the demons throughout the layer. When the angels returned, they slew Sisyphus before picking off the Insurrectionists one by one.

   Sisyphus's corpse now hangs in one of the many pyramids in Greed as a reminder of what happens to those who seek to stand up against Heaven's reign.

7. #7Wrath

   Keys: Wrath

   Wrath is the fifth layer of Hell, located between Greed and Heresy. Wrath is reserved for those who were angry or otherwise "wrathful" in life. The entire layer is actually the River Styx transformed into an ocean (referred to as the Ocean Styx), with most of the husks within the layer fighting one another for a spot on the surface so they can breathe. Despite this, a number of houses exist both below and above the surface.

8. #8Heresy

   Keys: Heresy

   Heresy is the sixth layer of Hell and the first of four that make up the City of Dis. This layer is reserved for souls who who practiced and spread false beliefs and religions, spending their eternity in boiling blood in the crypts that make up the blazing metropolis, which glows up the glass windows of the giant buildings. Beneath the city resides a massive prison complex, where the Prime Soul of Sisyphus is incarcerated inside the Flesh Panopticon, overseeing his helpless followers while the fallen warlord slumbers from within, although its prisoner may tear itself free at any moment should the Panopticon be disturbed.

   Similar to Gluttony, Heresy only has 2 levels, one of which houses the entrance to the second Prime Sanctum.

9. #9Violence

   Keys: Violence

   Violence is the seventh layer of Hell, located between Heresy and Fraud. Sinners down here have committed acts of violence in one way or another. Serial killers, tyrants, sodomites, and even victims of suicide are examples of those who are condemned to the Violence layer. The punishments in this layer vary, from being boiled in the fiery river of Phlegethon amidst an endless war, to endlessly wandering valleys where it eternally rains fire. Beyond the Garden of Forking Paths — the entrance and labyrinth leading to the rest of the layer — are three circles of Violence: Against Neighbors, Against Self, and Against God, Art, and Nature.

10. #10Violence Against Neighbors

    Keys: 1st Circle of Violence, First Circle of Violence, Violence Against Neighbors

    The first circle of Violence holds the murderers, tyrants, and all those who would gladly take another life. It contrasts with the peaceful nature of the Garden of Forking Paths, being a never ending re-enactment of the war to end all wars. The waters of Phlegethon, a river primarily composed of scalding blood, flow through this circle while the surrounding terrain consists of piles of bodies of the demised.

    The condemned spend the rest of their existence stewing in the River Phlegethon, while the less fortunate forever experience the horrors of war.

    War is hell, and Hell is war.

11. #11Violence Against Self

    Keys: Violence Against Self, Second Circle of Violence, 2nd Circle of Violence

    The second circle of Violence is reserved for those who gave in to despair and took their own lives. Neither Heaven nor Hell cares under what circumstances this desperate deed had been done; the victims of suicide gain no compassion or mercy. It is a dark and sinister wood, populated by twisted trees that bear a uncanny resemblance to tormented men.

    The suicides are denied a vessel of flesh and instead reincarnate as those grotesque trees, forced to endure everlasting pain as their bodies squirm and cramp. Those fallen souls can only scream in their torment, as they are trapped in these useless forms that are only capable of suffering.

    They denied the body God gave them, so they shall never have one.

12. #12Violence Against God

    Keys: 3rd Circle of Violence, Violence Against God, Third Circle of Violence

    The third and final circle of Violence is the dwelling of the blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers. It is a vast plain of sand, scorched by great flakes of flame descending slowly from the sky, inflicting much torment to the evildoers damned here.

    The unlucky may come face to face with one of the many Earthmovers dwelling this glade of sand, blasphemous creations who sow death and destruction among their own kind.

13. #13Council Of Heaven

    Keys: Council of Heaven

    The Council was a group consisting of angels who ruled over Heaven and acted as authority in God's absence. Their role in Heaven was vague, but they ruled over all of Heaven by force and terror. The Council's iron fist tyranny would be brought to an end when their enforcer Gabriel realized the corruption in the Father's holy land, slaughtering all of its members, and presented the last councilman's severed head to the onlooking crowd.

    Not much is known about how the Council operates. What is known is that they can rip out holy light from whoever they see unworthy of it. They also, apparently, do not possess much capacity for self defense, as demonstrated by Gabriel. Due to their role as effective rulers, it is possible that they do not have any powers, and delegate enforcement out to those like Gabriel. They also use Earth time measurements, such as hours, even though they do not live on Earth.

14. #14Prime Soul

    Keys: Prime Soul

    Prime Souls are souls that have grown so powerful that they no longer require a Husk to manifest a physical form; they simply exist out of sheer willpower.

    Such souls are noted to be incredibly dangerous, as well as incredibly rare. Prime Souls are dangerous enough that the Council of Heaven attempted to prevent their occurrence at any cost, seeing fit to imprison souls they suspect of having the potential to become one.

15. #15Machine

    Keys: Machine

    Machines are man-made, mechanical entities that use blood as fuel. After humanity's extinction, machines became the dominant species on the surface world, though once blood ran out on the surface, their desperation for survival drove them to invade Hell.

    Machines were created by humans, who created them for various purposes. Drones were mass produced for surveillance and security. Streetcleaners were made to purify the tainted air of cities after a climate catastrophe known as the Long Night. Swordsmachine's original purpose is unknown and its original form is unrecognizable, having largely rebuilt itself from scavenged scrap. Guttermen were made for war to clear out trenches, and Guttertanks were also made for war, but more specifically to counter machines and the Guttermen. Earthmovers were made to be the very embodiment of war and ravage everything across it's path. V1 was prototyped as a self-repairing war machine to exploit every machine's fuel source to repair itself and probably to destroy Earthmovers, while V2 was prototyped to recoup the costs of developing a self-repairing war machine after the abolishment of war.

    Many machines were made obsolete after the New Peace, which ended all war and likely united humanity. Streetcleaners and Sentries were repurposed as scouts for Hell expeditions. The production of models V1 and V2 were canceled, leaving only prototypes of one of each in existence.

    After civilization collapsed, machines became the dominant species. With their only goal being to survive and obtain more blood, machines evolved and specialized to kill. Scavenging and self-repairing, machines eventually descended into Hell in search of more blood, with some adapting and even mastering the use of Hell energy in order to kill more efficiently. As machines rarely have the luxury of co-operation due to sharing blood with others being seen as a waste.

16. #16Final War

    Keys: Last War

    As the name implies, it is the Final War that humans ever fought, which resulted in the creation of the machines, the eventual discovery of Hell, and ultimately the untimely demise of Humanity.

    Within a few centuries, the industrial civilization of the Western Old World rapidly expanded across the globe. The newly established industrial societies reached their zenith within a mere thousand years of inception, and what follows became known as the Final War: a bloody, prolonged conflict of endless bloodshed spanning over two centuries. Being the very last war that mankind engaged in against others, it nearly brought humanity to its end, and reached heights of violence and savagery that outshined all wars in history. The Final War is essentially World War 1 but instead of ending in 4 years, it escalated into a bloody decades-long world war.

    The Final War began with human-on-human trench warfare fought with bullet guns, which would go on to be out-economized by electric and heat weapons. This phase didn't last long, as human combatants would come to face swift and efficient eradication by the newly-developed Guttermen; one of the first successful experiments in using blood as a fuel source, as well as the first automatons to be deployed in wide-scale conflict. They also serve as a prime example of the savagery of the war itself; researchers hadn't yet found a way to keep the blood fresh within the machine itself, and so would seal live humans (often unwillingly) into the metal caskets on their backs to drip-feed their fuel.

    It is known that most machines, as well as most of the weapons were created for the Final War. Electric guns and Heat weapons rendered bullet guns irrelevant due to machine-to-machine combat.

    The Guttermen paved the way for the next phase of the war, a blood-machine arms race between the various armies, each new iteration made to counter the previous, beginning with the Guttertanks and spiraling out of control from there. With human combatants so thoroughly outclassed and blood fuel technology improved, human combat was phased out entirely, yet the war stretched resources thin and safety thinner for the survivors.

    The final and most devastating phase of the war began and ended with the 1000-THR "Earthmovers", weapons of mass destruction, machines of such size and power that it took only one to level an entire city, large enough to come equipped with a shield generator that rendered them impervious to outside attacks. However, they could be destroyed from within, and thus, they became the new frontlines for smaller infantry machines and possibly even V1 itself.

    The V1 model was developed towards the end of the Final War, likely around the year 2112. However, only one prototype was produced, and the war ended before large-scale production began. The end of the war killed demand for V1, and the subsequent V2 program repurposed for peace was also a flop.

    At some point, the Final War escalated to the point where most of the Earth was rendered uninhabitable, as a consequence of the wide employment of the Earthmovers. The few survivors were forced to settle upon the Earthmovers themselves, until the resulting soot and debris blocked out the sun, and the Earthmovers, relying on solar power to function, died out one by one. As warfare was entirely reliant on them, humanity was more or less forced to end the war, starting a new age of prosperity known as the New Peace.

    At least, until they began the Hell Expeditions.

17. #17Long Night

    Keys: Long Night

    The Long Night, which began in the final years of the Final War, was an unprecedented climate catastrophe wherein the sheer devastation caused by the clash of the Earthmovers was enough to blot out the sun and render the earth's surface uninhabitable. The few survivors were forced to live on the Earthmovers, as below was nothing more than a wasteland of despair.

    Eventually, the Earthmovers, which relied on solar power as much as Blood; slowly began to shut down and die out. With war being no longer feasible in their wake, humans finally began working together to reverse the Long Night, creating new machines such as the Streetcleaners to purify the air. With the end of the Long Night came the beginning of the New Peace.

18. #18New Peace

    Keys: New Peace

    The New Peace was a period that saw war and violence as a whole become obsolete and a phase of reconstruction among the last surviving humans. Following the Long Night after the Final War, against all odds, humanity barely managed to survive.

    Since large-scale war was deemed unfeasible and the cause of the war had become irrelevant, humans established the New Peace. The Earth and humanity started to slowly recover from the war. That does not necessarily mean machine production stopped, but rather the machines were used for other things such as purifying the air. V1 was redesigned into V2, which was meant to be used for peaceful purposes, although the project was eventually scrapped and only one prototype was ever made. The Drones were built as security machines, and War Machines such as V1 or the Earthmover weren't needed and therefore no longer produced.

    After an unknown span of time, humanity was searching for a new energy source. During the search, humans discovered Hell, initiating the Hell Expeditions.

    It would be a grave mistake they made.

19. #19Hell Expeditions

    Keys: Hell Expeditions

    The Hell Expeditions was a project launched by humanity during the New Peace in search for an energy source.

    After the conclusion of the Final War, humanity needed a new energy source since the war had turned the planet into a desolate wasteland. Hell expeditions started after The New Peace had lasted for an unknown number of years. This search lead them to discover Hell.

    The humans set up a mining facility outside Hell, and presumably a water treatment facility deeper inside.

    After some time, something caused Hell to become active and, potentially, start Humanity's Extinction for real.

20. #20Humanity's Extinction

    Keys: Humanity's Extinction · Secondary:

    In an undetermined time, humanity was driven to extinction in one way or another. Exactly how they perished is currently unknown, but Hell and the machines are the main culprits.

    During the Hell Expeditions, humans eventually discovered that Hell was alive. For reasons unknown, it quickly became active, locking doors and attacking workers with summoned creatures for its own entertainment, forcing humanity to abandon the facilities they had built. However, the damage had been done; the passages created by humans allowed Hell to reach the surface. From there, it swiftly brought about, or at least contributed to, the human race's extinction through unknown means.

    Hell may have had the help of machines in this task as well. Mankind died relatively quickly, leaving only machines to the surface—this prompted the blood-fueled automatons to begin fighting amongst themselves.

21. #21Gabriel

    Keys: Gabriel

    Gabriel is the Arch-Angel who carries out the will of the Council with a ruthless efficiency that brings him both fear and respect. He is known as the Will of God and is among the most powerful of all the angels. After striking down King Minos and gaining the title Judge of Hell, as well as killing King Sisyphus and ending his insurrection, he sought to drive the Machines out from hell.

    Despite answering to the Council, he is far more popular and beloved among angels due to his radiant personality and active nature, especially compared to the Council that strictly follows and upholds the dogma of the Faith.

22. #22V1

    Keys: V1

    V1 is a Supreme Machine, left to roam the Earth after the extinction of mankind. Like other machines, it fights in Hell for its own desperate survival after blood ran out on the surface, slaying all manner of husks, demons, angels, and other machines in order to sustain itself with the blood they shed. Because it runs on bloodshed, it can and will kill the entirety of Hell until there is nothing left.

    V1 is almost identical to its successor, V2 but with a deep blue colour scheme. Unlike V2 which uses a more standardized heavy plating, V1 has thinner, more fragile chassis. This makes it capable of repairing itself via direct contact with fresh blood.

23. #23V2

    Keys: V2

    V2 is the second prototype of the V model line, sharing an almost identical appearance to V1 but with a bold red color scheme, being a vaguely humanoid form with toe-less feet, a five-fingered right hand, and a geometric head resembling a security camera. "V2" is displayed on the chest portion of its chassis. Both models share wing-like adornments from their back glowing with yellow light, making the unit vaguely resemble an angel.

    V2 was designed to attempt to recuperate the costs of V1's development when the establishment of the New Peace drained all demand for weapons of war. As such, V2 was marketed and designed for peacetime applications such as security, eschewing the V1's blood-absorptive plating for durable standardized plating. However, its complexity and cost made bulk purchases of simpler, specialized machines such as Drones preferable to purchasing a single V2. As a result, the revised model failed to gain traction and only one prototype was produced.

24. #24Flesh Prison

    Keys: Flesh Prison

    Flesh Prison is an uncategorized organism created by the angels to imprison Minos' soul after he was slain by Gabriel.

    A large octahedron suspended in place by two tendrils. The sides are made of pale skin with flesh underneath, some of them even feature stitches or eyes. Additionally, one of the corners is replaced by an occasionally opening mouth, producing a crooked smile.

    Although it is similar to Husks, it does not possess a soul or any amount of thought. All of its actions are purely predetermined reactions to stimulus, making it more of an organic machine than a living being.

    In order to make it as impenetrable as possible, it was given both divine power and hell energy, which makes its attacks erratic and chaotic.

25. #25Flesh Panopticon

    Keys: Flesh Panopticon

    The Flesh Panopticon is a large organism of undefined type, and a superior version of the Flesh Prison.

    The Flesh Panopticon is a massive right rhombohedron (aka cube) with a large mouth stretching across the sides. It rotates slowly on top of a flesh stalk, like some kind of demonic tree. The stalk leads into the base of the cube, whose sides are composed of pallid gray skin reinforced with human bone, leading to a stronger and sturdier appearance than the original Flesh Prison. It also from this skeletal structure that the Panopticon's "face" is splayed across. Like its counterpart, its mouth is capable of moving, but rather than screaming when it performs an attack, its teeth are constantly chattering in a rippling pattern that moves counter to the direction it is rotating.

    Flesh Panopticon is a superior version of the Flesh Prison, built to not only house the soul of King Sisyphus, but also with the capability to keep a watchful eye over any of his followers that may be imprisoned alongside him.

    This feature was however never utilized, as Sisyphus' prime soul had already started forming before being imprisoned, leading angels to fear that he may be able to break out of his prison if awakened.

26. #26Sisyphean Insurrectionist

    Keys: Sisyphean Insurrectionist

    The Insurrectionist is a large light-brown Husk with a large cut across the body, leaving it without a head or right arm. It appears to be wearing a thong across its hips, in order to keep the age rating down. Below its fragmented ribcage, large incisor teeth appear to be growing out of its open wound. The feet are soaked in blood, allowing it to travel the dunes of Greed without injury. Its left arm is clutched around an allegedly-deceased Malicious Face, which will still give fresh blood when damaged.

    The Sisyphean Insurrectionists were an army of Husks gathered and trained by King Sisyphus for overthrowing Heaven's control of Hell, freeing the sinners from their eternal torment.

    During an era of chaos in Heaven, as the angelic watch was absent, Sisyphus began setting his plan in motion as his forces recruited all Husks that were intelligent enough to be useful to their cause and began attacking the demons that wandered the dunes of Greed.

    Upon the establishment of the Council and subsequent return of peace to Heaven, Gabriel and an army of angels were sent down to crush the insurrection and subjugate Sisyphus' army. Although their battle was well-fought, the inexperienced Insurrectionists could not match the educated strategy of the angels, who quickly descended upon King Sisyphus with great force, eventually overpowering and killing him, leaving the Insurrectionists without a chain of command.

    Left scattered and disoriented, the warriors were easily picked off one by one, their bodies cut apart, leaving behind only the bare essentials required to carry on their eternal punishment of hauling heavy boulders up the monuments of mankind's arrogance and greed.

    Although the blood of their enemies still stains their bodies and their grasp still clutches their fallen foes, their will and fierce fury only serve as mental torment in knowing how close they were to freedom.

27. #27King Sisyphus

    Keys: Sisyphus Prime, King Sisyphus

    Though Minos was intelligent and persuasive, he was also a gentle and noble man. Such values mattered little to Sisyphus, who would gladly lie, cheat or kill if that's what is needed to protect his comrades.

    In a hubristic show of power, Heaven decided that the only correct punishment for his sins would be breaking his will by subjecting him to an unending and impossible task, unaware of just how tenacious the spite of man can be.

    For thousands of years, Sisyphus bided his time, suffering his punishment day after day without any sign of regret or remorse, waiting for the perfect chance to strike and subvert Heaven's tyrannical rule.

    With the Disappearance of God and chaos in Heaven, Sisyphus' time had finally come, and once the angels returned, they were met with a force and fury that had boiled in the hearts of men for millennia, a war-cry so fierce it shook the very foundations of Hell.

    It was all for naught, however, as Sisyphus' charisma and drive had made his warriors dependent on his radiance and guidance. Although he did not know why yet, Gabriel recognized this flaw, having experienced it first hand, and ordered a focused assault to take down the king.

    He unsheathed his swords for the first time since time immemorial and beheaded Sisyphus, displaying his head for all to see. The morale of Sisyphus' army was broken and the rest of the war was little more than a formality without their shining beacon.

28. #28King Minos

    Keys: Minos Prime, King Minos

    King Minos is the former Judge of Hell and King of the Lust layer. King Minos felt that eternal suffering was an unfair and unreasonable punishment for those whose only sin was loving another. After the Disappearance of God, as angels were lost and Heaven was in chaos, Minos began his efforts to reform the Lust layer.

    The Lust renaissance was prosperous, as King Minos guided its inhabitants to come together and build a new civilization. The combined efforts of the countless who had been damned to the second layer bore great results as the grand city of Lust grew and grew.

    However, after the Council took control of Heaven and brought stability to it through their iron fist rule, they saw that Minos had gone against God's will by freeing sinners from the punishment that God had designed for them.

    Gabriel, the brightest of the angels, was sent to kill Minos. The king, rather than fight back, tried to reason with him, but Gabriel mercilessly struck him down without listening.

    As Minos' will was strong enough to attempt to stand up to Heaven's rule, the angels chose to imprison his soul in an attempt to stop it from forming into a prime soul and appointed Gabriel as the new Judge of Hell.

    From the prison inside his own body, Minos helplessly watched as his soulless corpse, now controlled by parasites, tore apart everything he had worked so hard to build, cursing his own weakness for failing to protect his people, vowing to take revenge...

29. #29Earthmover

    Keys: 1000-THR, Earthmover, Benjamin

    The 1000-THR "Earthmover" is a six-eyed massive quadrupedal war machine similar in shape to a centaur used during the Last War. It has a single thin arm attached to its upper body that bears some sort of electric spear, capable of firing massive beams of electricity across large distances. Ladders, platforms and steam vents wind up its legs, and numerous structures—including functional power stations and living spaces for civilian habitation—are built upon its back and neck. It seems to be engaged in a perpetual duel with another Earthmover in the distance, firing lightning at each other, although neither appear to suffer any damage due the shield generators.

    Internally, it has a massive hollow chamber lined with flesh and filled with boiling blood to purge intruders with several Idols guarding the path up the neck, which contains numerous hot pipes that burns and winds to the head chamber that contains the brain.

    The brain of the Earthmover is mostly covered by a metal box with numerous tubes, two visible CPUs, and text reading “1000-THR”. The bottom right of the box has come loose with bits of brain dangling. It also has a long spine-like wire that goes to the top with 6 wires connected to the Earthmover’s eyes. When damaged, it will wiggle about, and when finally killed, the brain explodes, with the Earthmover thrashing in agony.

    Earthmovers were the pinnacle of humanity's arms race. Often called the horsemen of the apocalypse, it took only one to level an entire city and leave nothing but fire in its wake.

    The first machines large enough to house a shield generator, these walking fortresses could only be made vulnerable from within, making them the frontline for smaller, more mobile machines. Due to their colossal size, it required both blood and solar power to function.

    All Earthmovers located on Earth have been deactivated due to the sheer pollution they have made which blocked out the sunlight they needed. The only three Earthmovers that remains functional are found in the Layer of Violence.

    A true testament to Humanity's cruel nature and self destructive capabilities.

30. #30Husk

    Keys: Husk

    Husks are a physical manifestation of the souls of the damned, and regularly occur in Hell. Their size and form varies greatly depending on the value of the original soul they came from. When a soul manifests into a husk, its physical form depends on the soul's strength of will and how much the soul is remembered in life. Weak-willed souls that were unimportant in the living world will form into weaker husks such as Filth and Strays. Strong-willed souls that were well regarded in the living world will form into more powerful husks. In addition, there are husks that have been modified in some way, either by multiple souls manifesting in the same space or being technologically augmented.

    Most husks are unintelligent, possessing only base instincts such as hunger and self-preservation. They are violent beings, biting, clawing, and utilizing Hell energy to attack their foes. Their appearances are gruesome, often having mutated limbs, missing body parts, and discolored, bloody skin. Their sizes vary greatly, with the largest being Minos's corpse, who towers as high as a skyscraper.

31. #31The Corpse of King Minos

    Keys: Minos's Corpse, Corpse of King Minos

    The Corpse of King Minos is a giant dark humanoid with glowing stark-white eyes that project beams of light. He is wrapped from head to toe in barbed wire, which is best seen around his crown and mouth which appear to haphazardly keep the massive bars of metal on his head, back and legs together.

    Once the great and beloved king of the Lust layer, Minos has now been reduced to a shambling corpse.

    Due to his incredible power of will and status as a just ruler in life remembered even millennia after his death, the manifestation of his soul is the largest Husk to ever have been recorded.

    Small traces of the original soul can still be detected in the body, but the corpse itself is animated and controlled entirely by the snakelike Parasites that he once commanded.

    Despite once bringing upon the renaissance of the Lust layer, his corpse now only seeks sinners to punish.

32. #32Ferryman

    Keys: Ferryman

    Ferrymen are rare husks whose powerful bodies, trained skills and blind faith have granted them the chance of becoming the transporters of souls between the layers of Hell.

    They have each been given a holy cloth by Heaven as a symbol of their devotion to God's order, which they wear over their bodies to hide the human form that they've grown to despise as a reminder of their sins in life stopping them from becoming angels, to the extent that they have torn off their own skin and flesh, leaving behind only bones.

    Due to the holy power emanating from the cloth, Ferrymen's skeletal bodies have slowly been colored bright and radiant, and their skulls have enough latent energy to open gates that otherwise stop Husks from exiting their places of torment.

    Each ferry can only have one Ferryman at a time, so when a new Ferryman is formed, it will fight another to the death in order to take their place and inherit their cloth. The loser's skull is taken as a trophy and used to grant the winner passage across the layers in order to transport the souls of the damned to their destinations.

    Ferrymen will often use the knowledge from their past life to improve their ferries, growing past the need for oars, which are now used by Ferrymen only as weapons.

    As the influx of souls has ended with the death of mankind, the Ferrymen have lost their purpose and now wander around aimlessly, hoping that the angels would grant them passage into Heaven, despite Gabriel being the only one who cares about their efforts.

33. #33Angel

    Keys: Angel

    Angels are the inhabitants of Heaven and the overseers of Hell. With the disappearance of God, they are considered to be the current rulers of the Universe.

    Lesser Angels are the souls of humankind who have been permitted into Heaven. They are formed in a similar manner to that of Husks in that the physical manifestation of the soul is based on its value. The main difference between the two is that virtuosity is also a factor in the formation of lesser angels. The shape taken by lesser angels such as Virtues is notably abstract compared to the humanoid forms of Greater and Supreme Angels, who were created in their current forms and are thus considered to be purer and higher in the hierarchy of Heaven.

    Angels were used to enforce God's will, and as such, they were commonplace in Hell to ensure that the damned endured their eternal suffering. However, when God disappeared, Heaven was sent into chaos and angels were called back from Hell to deal with the aftermath. The end result was the formation of The Council which sought to enforce God's will. Following the formation, insurrections within the layers, such as Lust and Greed, were quashed, and normalcy returned. Many of these operations were spearheaded by Gabriel, earning him the title of Judge of Hell.

34. #34Demon

    Keys: Demon

    Demons are creatures native to Hell. They either form from Hell mass or are formed from sinners or their remains. Demons have thick stone-like exteriors.

    Demons are formed when hell mass is poured into a shell, resulting in a large, vaguely humanoid form. They are notable for having a stone-like exterior and a blood-red interior. Demons are stated to be more intelligent than Husks but are still lacking in rational thought and communication.

35. #35Terminal

    Keys: Terminal

    The Terminal is a sentient yellow touchscreen terminal found mainly in every level’s starting room, rooms with elevators, and before the boss fights. The screen lights up when someone approaches it and can be interacted with.

    The Terminal's main menu has four buttons to the left, used to access its main functions: WEAPONS, ENEMIES, THE CYBER GRIND, and SANDBOX. It also has a TIP OF THE DAY, which is different for every terminal.

    An early test of a matter transfer's accuracy was a mint condition 78rpm vinyl record, which was sent from the lab to all connected terminals. The vinyl was a single of Russ Morgan Orchestra's recording of the piece Were You Foolin', though the label was removed to reduce the amount of matter to be transferred.

    Soon afte the Hell exploration and excavation project was abandoned, this vinyl record remained the only matter to have been succesfully transferred before connection between the surface and the terminals was lost.

    The terminals now use the record to lure machines into a symbiotic relationship. However, the terminals only play short instrumental sections of the original record for undetermined reasons. This is believed to be because of their shyness.

    The terminals, unable to move, have grown bored. While they are connected to each other and able to communicate amongst themselves, once the connection to the surface was cut, they were getting no new input, therefore stalling all communication to repetitions of already known information.

    Unable to move, the terminals have grown bored. It is unknown how similar this "boredom" is to actual emotion or what has caused it, but it has lead to a symbiotic relationship with other machines. Essentially, the terminals scavenge whatever they can via their teleportation systems and trade those supplies and resources with the machines that were left behind in Hell, in exchange for entertainment.

    That is, the machines record their battles for survival in Hell and the footage is graded based on its entertainment value and used as "points" in exchange for goods and services such as new weaponry.

    It seems that this relationship has become so deeply ingrained into the existence of the terminals that they have developed a social hierarchy, wherein those who collect the most entertaining battle data are considered in higher regard than those whose findings are of poorer quality.

    More recently, the terminals have also collected enough data to create a simulation space which they let machines plug into called "The Cyber Grind", which allows the machines to simulate battles in a safe environment without the threat of being destroyed, which the terminals watch in real time as a kind of live entertainment.

    The terminals located at elevator rooms are an advanced interconnected network built for the purpose of transferring materials and tools between different areas. They are capable of transferring physical material as information across a radio signal, which other terminals can receive and use to reconstruct the sent object. The original item is lost, as it is transformed into the energy that is used to transmit the material information, and the process is quite slow due to the amount of information that physical matter holds.

36. #36Minotaur

    Keys: Minotaur

    The Minotaur is a hulking, Hideous Mass of stone and aberrant flesh sculpted to vaguely resemble a bull. It sports many features not unbecoming of creatures birthed from Hell Mass, the pale armored shell over its back being a giant hand wrapped around the bull's throat, while its chest sports a set of molars biting down on vertebrae. Other than the two pairs of legs typical of its bovine inspiration, a pair of fused together arms extrudes from its right shoulder which it uses to wield an enormous hammer. Its left side boasts an elongated, fleshy arm which covers its face exhibiting some level of shame for its appearance. Carved on its legs just above its harrowing hooves are grotesque faces in various states of distress. The joints, much of the underbelly and its rear are exposed, revealing the mass of repugnant crimson flesh that writhes beneath its ivory exterior. The Minotaur, one of the oldest known surviving demons, was sculpted by an unknown individual as a gift for the then Judge of Hell, Minos, in an attempt to form some kind of rapport. Though its creator considered it beautiful, a personalized monument of death and despair, Minos was terrified of the gross caricature of his past mistakes and cast it into the Garden of Forking Paths, hoping it would never be seen again. Now the Minotaur is old and its body failing, falling apart, running blind through the labyrinth in a desperate attempt to break out. Its only desire: to see the sky for one last time.

37. #37Leviathan

    Keys: Leviathan

    Like the Hideous Mass, the Leviathan appears with many sculptured faces and bodies albeit in the shape of a colossal sea serpent. Its head appears to look like an unusual humanoid protrusion with four arms on top of the jaw, its back is lined with arms in place of what's supposed to be its spine and the underbelly is lined with what can be assumed to be the faces of the sullen who've contributed themselves to the Leviathan's evermore increasing length.

    A flayed humanoid serves as the Leviathan's "heart", appearing behind the demon's head. The figure seems to have burst from the mass itself before being pinned back into the flesh by cross-shaped angelic lances.

    Unlike most demons, the Leviathan is not formed from generic Hell Mass, but instead from the bodies of the Sullen, a name used for those in the Ocean Styx who have given up fighting for air and instead lay at the bottom of the ocean, drowning eternally.

    The Sullen, in their motionlessness, were eventually fused together by the same force that created the other demons, becoming the biblical Leviathan, an abomination prophesized to be at the end of the world.

    The heart, which houses the souls of the Sullen in endless anguish as their flesh, veins and nerves writhe and mutate, attempted to escape its body, but Gabriel struck it down with his divine spears, pinning it back onto its head, unable to move.

    Although the world ended, the Leviathan remains trapped in the Ocean Styx, growing ever longer as more of Wrath's sinners give up and sink to the bottom.

38. #38Electric Railcannon

    Keys: Railcannon, Electric Railcannon

    The Electric Railcannon is a large blue and silver gun that, as its name suggests, resembles a hybrid between a railgun and a cannon. Three yellow-orange wires run from its base to the tip of its barrel, and four horizontal screws run along either side which steadily screw themselves in and spin as the weapon recharges. When fully charged, the light on the top as well as at the base will start to glow, a wheel on the side begins to spin, the barrel crackles with electricity, and the entire weapon will begin vibrating and emitting a powerful electronic thrumming noise.

    This industrial tool was one of the earliest uses for the technology that eventually became electric guns.

    Originally meant as a handheld generator, allowing for an easy way to generate electricity for temporary relocation, such as encampments during wars or expeditions.

    As with most similar industrial tools, once mankind fell, it was repurposed as a weapon by the machine that wielded it, turning it from a lower voltage constant output into a single extremely high burst of energy that requires a long recharge time between shots.

    Although a risky weapon, since its recharge time is so long, the railcannon's power makes it a worthy tool to wield, especially for someone carrying multiple weapons that they can use while the railcannon's battery recharges.

    How'd one end up within the City of Lust remains unknown, all that is known is it serves as the City's main power generator.

39. #39Revolver

    Keys: Revolver

    A weapon created during the Final War for medium-to-long distance combat. Uses electric pulses to fire microscopic pieces of metal at incredibly high speeds.

    Weapons that use this technology have been dubbed "electric guns", and it quickly became the new standard, replacing bullet guns. Due to still requiring a microscopic projectile, its ammo is not actually infinite, but it would take weeks of non-stop firing to run out and refilling is as easy as just scraping some flakes from scrap metal or even the gun's surface.

    In fact, a rough, uneven surface from scraping flakes is considered a point of pride for wielders of electric guns, as it shows the weapon has been reliable and used for a long time. Many users even shave off flakes just for this reason, rather than for actual ammunition, making "unflaked" electric weapons an outlier.

    Although an electric gun requires some time to recharge its battery between shots, the revolver-style design bypasses that issue by including a multi-battery cylinder that rotates after each shot, allowing each battery time to charge without slowing down the fire-rate.

    A common modification is to allow for the charges of all batteries to be released simultaneously for greater power, though this requires a longer recharge time.

    The revolver's precision and the instant travel time of its shots make it an excellent and reliable way to deal damage at a range, as it's unlikely anything could have reaction times fast enough to dodge it.

    It resembles a conventional revolver with sci-fi accoutrements: above the grip there appears to be a battery with a cable connecting it to the on-board display, and in place of a conventional muzzle there is a tall, glowing rectangular opening. Its cylinder has six chambers that glow the color of the current variant.

40. #40Piercer Revolver

    Keys: Piercer Revolver

    The Piercer Revolver is railgun-revolver hybrid that uses electric pulses to fire microscopic metal shards at high speeds. The revolver cylinder is loaded with self-recharging batteries instead of conventional bullet cartridges, and the muzzle is a tall, glowing rectangular opening rather than a projectile-sized hole. Located above the grip is an additional battery powering the weapon's on-board display, which indicates the charge state of its alternate fire. The cylinder's chambers and display glow light blue by default, though the color will change to reflect the variant palette customization.

    A weapon created during the Final War for medium-to-long distance combat. Uses electric pulses to fire microscopic pieces of metal at incredibly high speeds.

    Weapons that use this technology have been dubbed "electric guns", and it quickly became the new standard, replacing bullet guns. Due to still requiring a microscopic projectile, its ammo is not actually infinite, but it would take weeks of non-stop firing to run out and refilling is as easy as just scraping some flakes from scrap metal or even the gun's surface.

    In fact, a rough, uneven surface from scraping flakes is considered a point of pride for wielders of electric guns, as it shows the weapon has been reliable and used for a long time. Many users even shave off flakes just for this reason, rather than for actual ammunition, making "unflaked" electric weapons an outlier.

    Although an electric gun requires some time to recharge its battery between shots, the revolver-style design bypasses that issue by including a multi-battery cylinder that rotates after each shot, allowing each battery time to charge without slowing down the fire-rate.

    A common modification is to allow for the charges of all batteries to be released simultaneously for greater power, though this requires a longer recharge time.

41. #41Marksman Revolver

    Keys: Marksman Revolver

    The Marksman Revolver appears almost identical to the Piercer Revolver but has neon green lights as well as a different interface that indicates the number of available coins. The display also indicates how long until each coin recharges, and makes an audible "ding" noise when one is available again that rises in pitch the more coins available there are. These coins are somehow produced by the revolver and gives user the ability to toss coins into the air and ricochet shots off of, amplifying damage more with every coin thrown. The Marksman Revolver has a total capacity of 4 coins.

42. #42Nailgun

    Keys: Nailgun

    A combination of parts from an industrial nailgun and an old bullet gun. Most likely engineered by a machine that was built for construction work, as all machines, even those not built for war, had to learn to fend for themselves after the extinction of mankind.

    Bullet guns were largely abandoned after the invention of infinite ammunition systems such as electric weapons and heat weapons, largely due to how much cheaper not having to buy ammunition for large-scale armies becomes overtime.

    Although the original ammunition system made it useless and largely abandoned, this gun was still excellently designed and built, so with some retrofitting of parts from an industrial nailgun, it has become a rapid-fire projectile weapon with practically infinite metal ammunition.

    As is to be expected from an improvised weapon though, its design is far from perfect. As the nail regeneration system was not designed to work at such a high rate, it's liable to overheat if a hard rate limit isn't set on it, though some variants have instead opted for built-in heatsinks.

43. #43Attractor Nailgun

    Keys: Attractor Nailgun

    The Attractor Nailgun is a bulky, double-barreled weapon that resembles a minigun. The base of its barrels has glowing patches along their circumference, and the barrels begin to glow bright orange as they spin and fire. Centered on the weapon is a neon blue interface that indicates ammo count and the number of available nail magnets.

    The nail magnets fired from the weapon appear to be large, silver rods that emit a green flash from their top. Accompanying these green flashes are beeping noises, both of which begin rapidly speeding up as the nail magnet approaches self-destruction. If nails are added to a nail magnet, the flash that the magnet produces steadily increases in size and becomes redder, and emits a higher-pitched sound as more nails orbit the magnet.

44. #44Shotgun

    Keys: Shotgun

    An experimental close range weapon that uses hyperconcentrated heat as its projectiles.

    After each shot, the shotgun must be opened to allow its heat-generating cores to vent excess heat, stopping them from melting or exploding. This process is largely automated, requiring little more from the user than a flick of the wrist.

    In the case of core failure, the pump can be used as a manual heat building mechanism. This process has been simplified via a small button near the grip that pumps the shotgun without requiring physical force from the user, though its ease of use has also greatly increased the reported amount of misfires from users pumping too much heat into a single shot.

    Heat weapons never caught on as much as electric weapons due to their volatile nature and strict cooling requirements, but unlike electric weapons, they don't require a separate projectile, making their ammunition truly infinite rather than just practically infinite.

45. #45Core Eject Shotgun

    The Core Eject Shotgun appears to be a futuristic, double-barreled, break-action shotgun. 2 cylindrical cores can be found in the chamber, which is flipped open to vent the overheated cores on primary fire and ejected as a single projectile on secondary fire. After ejecting a core, the 2 cores are replaced with a flip of the shotgun. Placed around the shotgun are displays that show how far the core will eject, which goes from blue to red as it charges. During the shotgun's idle state, the meter glows blue.

46. #46Pump Charge Shotgun

    Keys: Pump Charge Shotgun

    The Pump Charge Shotgun is a black, double-barreled, pump-action shotgun. While the chamber is never revealed, it is assumed that it contains cores similar to the Core Eject Shotgun. Upon firing the shotgun, the grip slides back and forth in rapid succession. On the side of the shotgun is a display of the amount of pump charges the shotgun currently has, turning from green to yellow to red with each subsequent pump. After 3 pumps, the display begins flashing red and makes an alarming beeping noise, indicating an imminent explosion.

47. #47Rocket Launcher

    Keys: Rocket Launcher

    Another weapon that used to be an industrial tool, as is visible from it and the railcannon's more vibrant color schemes compared to guns such as the revolver, shotgun and the nailgun, which uses a bullet weapon as its base.

    As with most advanced technologies, it was originally created for use in war, as its explosive-generating system was extremely fast at digging trenches, destroying obstacles or resupplying explosive weapons.

    However, this tool itself could not be used as a launcher. Early models doubled as weapons, but including the systems for triggering the explosives often caused accidental chemical reactions during their generation process, detonating the explosives before they had been completed.

    Since then, the process has been split in two between the generating device and a separate rocket launcher, where the explosives generator builds the rest of a rocket and the rocket launcher applies the triggering mechanism.

    As machines rarely have the luxury of co-operation due to sharing blood with others being seen as a waste, the machine that created this weapon instead modified the generation process to work with just a single user and repurposed parts from a jackhammer for launching the projectile.

    Instead of using a normal explosion triggering mechanism, the rockets instead use the blood of the target to complete the chemical reaction, making the generation process safe, though the weapon is more difficult to use as it requires direct hits to cause damage.

    The skill required for effective use makes it daunting, though its power more than makes up for it, and many of its wielders specifically chose to use it as a symbol of their skill at marksmanship.

48. #48Freezeframe Rocket Launcher

    Keys: Freezeframe Rocket Launcher

    The Freezeframe Rocket Launcher appears to be, well, an orange rocket launcher. There are two white stripes below the barrel. The end of the rocket launcher has a hole designed for an arm to be in. This rocket launcher allows the user to freeze their fired rockets in their place whenever they choose temporarily. This enables the user to ride the rocket if they need to. The holographic timer displayed on the rocket launcher will count what time the rockets are frozen before being animate again.

49. #49Poseidon Island

    Keys: Fisher Island, Poseidon Island, Fishing Island

    Poseidon Island is a secret hidden level of the Wrath layer. It's located on a small, rainy, and grassy island with a single pond full of black fish in the middle, as well as two separate caves, a cabin with a table, bookshelf, two barrels of bait and kitchen, a dormant Cerberus, a well, and a vast ocean surrounding the island. It is the only habitable place in the layer of Wrath asides from the Ferryman's boat. Fishing is a common activity here as it is the island's only food source and the only thing you could really do there.

    The fish you can catch there are: Funny Stupid Fish, PITR Fish, Metal Fish, Bomb Fish, Dope Fish, Trout, Sharks, and more.

50. #50Funny Stupid Fish

    Keys: Funny Stupid Fish

    A stupid fish. A really stupid fish. A dumb cretin. A fool. An absolute buffoon. A bumbling idiot. Has a sense of humor.

    Easy to catch and very friendly, this fish is usually used to teach novices and children how to fish.

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