Ezmanan the Many Hells

All the 23 Planes of Punishment are known collectively as Ezmanan. Within The Empire of Lacerto, it is believed that Ezmanan is the place where those who fail to lead pious and respectable lives will spend eternity, organized by their most heinous crimes in life. The Embrian Kingdom, however, does not see Ezmanan as a place of evil, but rather as a place of troubles and earned enlightenment.

From the top:

Level 1 - Beden
An expansive and beautiful garden featuring gazebos, flourishing plant life, and many steps and columns. The tranquility of this place is overshadowed by the silent and contemplative souls who are stuck here, who shuffle around in melancholy, searching for meaning. Beden is thought to be the place for skeptics, non-believers, and those more devoted to esoterica than to faith. Some see Beden as a way to rub elbows with the greatest minds of Olemonde's history. Though no sound can be heard in this plane, it is a simple matter of communicating through writing. It is believed that there is an enormous and impossibly vast library somewhere among the hedge mazes of Beden, though if it has been discovered, none have returned to relay the discovery.



Level 2 - Kour
This plane is pitch black. There are no lights save for the lanterns carried by mischievous minor demons who enjoy leading the lost into crevasses and pits. Kour is the Punishment for those who have faith and yet deny it - they choose to be blind and so remain blind for all eternity. Embrian scholars, however, notate that Kour is the ideal place to find and capture Will-o-Wisps, and should one manage, capturing a minor demon's lantern can prove incredibly useful for those embroiled in academia.

Level 3 - Sehvet
Sehvet is a plane intended for those guilty of lust. The plane itself is shrouded in a thick blanket of smoke, constantly blown about by a harsh and moaning wind. This place is full of souls lost in the act of vain copulation, their eyes dead and their bodies wasting away. The demons of this plane appear as rodents, such as hares or rats, and tend to congregate near those who are perpetually stuck in the act of sex. Succubi and other temptation spirits originate from this plane, as well, and are sometimes captured and brought back to Olemonde for less salubrious means.



Level 4 - Imren
This place is known as the Plane of the Envious. It is a vast flatland of stark white stones, dust, and an unmoving, ever-glaring sun. Lying at irregular intervals are the husks of souls who have been condemned here. They lie on their side in the fetal position, their skin dry and wrinkled, their eyes hollow. Some of the more ambulatory souls fight with each other over the small white stones, each one stealing pebbles from the largest pile in a constant war of rising and falling cairns.

Level 5 - Heyff
Heyff, the Halls of the Vindictive, is the hell meant specifically for those who seek and exact petty vengeance upon their neighbors or family. This plane is comprised of vast subterranean halls made entirely out of ice, with damned souls filling up space inside icy pillars. Some souls wander sluggishly for a time, until they, too, are captured and incorporated into the mortar of the frozen halls.

Level 6 - Obuurluuk
Obuurluuk is the realm of gluttons and choosy beggars. It is constantly raining in this plane, though the plane itself is a sandy desert. Obuurluuk often features violent landslides as the sand dunes collapse with the introduction of rain, often burying the plump souls that find themselves here. Limbs are sometimes spotted sticking up through the sand, madly scrabbling for air and unable to suffocate, their mouths and noses full of sand and water.

Level 7 - Diij Minat
This layer of hell is the destination for the unkind, uncharitable, and uncompassionate or harmfully selfish. Within this plane are fields of metal cells with no doors and no windows. Every now and again, a pounding can be heard coming from the inside of a cell as the damned soul contained within pleads for release. Because they thought only of themselves, now themselves are all they have.

Level 8 - Akozulok
Akozulok is the Realm of Loss. This plane appears as a large cave, featuring fractured skylights and a canopy of vines and wildlife. The souls who are condemned to this plane are slowly driven mad as all they have is taken from them, starting first with their teeth, hair, and nails. Naturally their memories and their identities are stripped from them as well. When they have been driven insane by the loss of all that they were, they are chained to a large boulder and left to rot, constantly gasping for their stolen selves.

Level 9 - Galzuural
The plane called Galzuural is also known as the Taciturn Steppe. This level is reserved for the torment of those who have allowed madness to creep into their hearts and taint their faith.

Level 10 - Qelpezaan
Some thievery is ignored. But the worst examples, such as stealing from charity or defrauding the elderly, bring a soul to Qelpezaan, the Sepulchre of the Dissembled. Within this realm, those guilty of sinomy are chained upside-down to a pulpit, their suspended feet on fire. Their congregation consists of charlatans and frauds, with their heads twisted around 180 degrees, corrupt politicians bathed in boiling oil, and sexual criminals are forced to flay their own flesh to the bone. They are all caught in the rapture of screaming hymns.

Level 11 - Yyalanlaar
Those who obscure the truth, sneak, lie, and deceive are relegated to Yyalanlaar.

Level 12 - Xexeb (wrath)

Level 13 - Ozereh (heresy)

Level 14 - Defaalin (apostasy)

Level 15 - Kustiin (Murder)

Level 16 - Murkatil (Patricide)

Level 17 - Perfiduus (Treachery)

Level 18 - Gizluluk

Level 19 - Iknanczis

Level 20 - Kirkilrik

Level 21 - Yolsuzuulk

Level 22 - Faydazh

Level 23 - Domgammus