Places
The places, as the game builds them. The circles of the poem are named here as labels inside a chapter, never as places of their own, because a chapter is one scene you can walk.
1The Dark Wood3 entries
2The Gate and the Antehell2 entries
3Incontinence5 entries
- The Ring of Weightscircle · Being builtTwo files of weights rolling in opposite directions, meeting at two points only.
- The Eternal Raincircle · Being builtThe terrace under a rain that never stops, with rock ledges where it does not fall.
- Limbocircle · Being builtThe outermost terrace of the funnel, where nothing is punished and the verb is listening.
- The Stormcircle · Being builtA ledge pinched between the rock wall and a sheer drop, with a wind turning along the ring.
- The Styxcircle · Being builtThe lake at the bottom of the funnel, with a tower whose foot stands in the water.
4The Walls of Dis5 entries
- Dis, the Iron Citycity · Being builtThe walled city that closes off lower Hell, and it has one gate.
- The Phlegethoncircle · Being builtThe river of boiling blood that holds the violent against others.
- The Burning Sandcircle · Being builtThe open sand where fire rains and does not stop.
- The Necropolis of the Hereticscircle · Being builtThe field of open, red hot tombs inside the walls of Dis.
- The Wood of the Suicidescircle · Being builtThe wood where the souls are the trees.
5Malebolge12 entries
- The First Ditch, the Pandersditch · Being builtTwo files walking in opposite directions, and the ones who whip them from the lip.
- The Tenth Ditch, the Falsifiersditch · Being builtFour diseases on the floor, and nobody who gets up.
- The Second Ditch, the Flatterersditch · Being builtA ditch filled with dung to within a metre of the lip.
- The Third Ditch, the Simonistsditch · Being builtFifteen identical holes in the stone, two legs out of each.
- The Fourth Ditch, the Divinersditch · Being builtA file of bodies with the face turned onto the back, walking backwards.
- The Fifth Ditch, the Pitchditch · Being builtBlack, still pitch, and ten devils with hooks watching it from the lip.
- The Sixth Ditch, the Hypocritesditch · Being builtCloaks gilded outside and lead beneath, and one man who is naked.
- The Seventh Ditch, the Thievesditch · Being builtSnakes, and bodies that trade places with them while you watch.
- The Eighth Ditch, the Flamesditch · Being builtA floor full of lights moving slowly: every flame is a man.
- The Ninth Ditch, the Sowers of Discordditch · Being builtA devil with a sword going his round, and wounds that close before he is back.
- The Well of the Giantswell · Being builtThe well at the bottom of Malebolge, where the giants stand in the mist.
- Malebolge, the Basin of the Ten Ditchescircle · Being builtThe basin of iron grey stone holding ten concentric ditches around a central pit.