You might even find yourself in the clutches of your own personal tormentor. Enjoy the fire-lake side view.Ī place for every belief then, and every sin. You might find yourself in pitch-black caves filled with innumerable gems and riches should you be all too greedy, or even stood before the gates of Pandemonium, the Gilded Palace of the Prince of Lies. Should you believe in Hell, should you believe in the laws of a God and wilfully break them-you end up Damned to the Netherworld.įrom endless wastes where souls wander, to drowned depths where sinners are chained upside down for all time, all the way to rivers of fire and seared banks. We, as mere mortals then, are bound to fall into whatever place we believed we should after our demise. The scent of a world ablaze filling my lungs with dust and heat it was apparent then, as I girded myself to open my eyes, that I saw the world of ashes and embers…”Įvery instance of Hell imagined by Humanity also takes a slice of reality-each unique, fiery and heated all the way to frozen and despairing. You might too then, also meet your Demons. You might meet Angels the goodness you expect watching from on up high-every Religion played out in its own little corner of Faerie every God and Pantheon ruling over their own little slice of the Human condition. You might meet romanticised Cowboys from the Wildest West, or Knights in armour sitting around circular tables. You might meet your hero here-the one from the story you recall, that saves the Princess from Dragon fire and damned tower. They come with their own mystery, their own quirks and goals often derived from the stories people remember from their childhoods. If you find yourself in unfamiliar scenery-you are likely to find yourself in unfamiliar company and the creatures of this place are as strange and fantastical as the land itself. Here, all things passed in story come to be every fantasy tale, every romanticised aspect of humanity, every Heaven and every Hell. One such place is the realm of Faerie a place of imagination broken up into so many stories and ideas, it is also known as the Land of Legends, containing worlds such as The Land of Wild Adventure. These places are alternate dimensions to our Earth and some more than others rely upon our own world for their substance, their structure. Every story you can ever recall from the little ones at children’s bed-times to the greater stories to explain all of reality they all have a segment of reality. There are other places our world aside-Places of imagination and the rule of story. I knew better than to expect an agreeable end, but the ground felt so soft before the horror set in.” I hurt no more the thirst that had plagued me in my final moments had left me, and for a time I felt hopeful. “…And I woke from that pain to a serene disregard. Incredible strength and durability, massive size and next to limitless infernal energy. Satyr like Ram's horns, digitigrade legs and hooves Player: one now, to mock your own grinning?

Torment of the styx