Hell's Garden

"Welcome, students! Welcome to your new and eternal home.

Within these halls, you will not reach your potential, because you have no potential.

You will not discover yourself, because there is nothing to discover.

You will not embark on the adventure of life, because it has already ended, and you failed.

This is your punishment, and your destiny: to submit.

Welcome to Pandaemonium Academy."

-from Student Council President Venus Heylel's commencement address to the class of eternity.

Inspirations: Disgaea, Kill la Kill, Zdzisław Beksiński

Hell

Hell is made of the souls of the once-living. It is a mirror of their lives. And in the deskilled, reskilled, knowledge-economic hothouse of modernity, their lives are consumed by schooling. Naturally, Hell follows suit.

Pandaemonium Academy stands in the capital of the Inferno. Those whose hell it is deemed proper to include education or re-education are consigned there, or to one of its sister establishments.

Devils are fallen angels consigned to Hell for the crime of following Lucifer in his rebellion. They typically appear as twisted, or sometimes untwisted, versions of their former heavenly selves.

Demons are the native inhabitants of Hell, manifestations of the unbeing in the shadow of the light of the Absolute. They are typically monstrous.

Damned are the souls of sinful mortals. They typically appear as they did in life, but warped somehow by their crimes.

In Hell, nothing is material. You are only your soul. Those who are ground down by their experiences lose their will, their power, and finally their identity, and become mere bedrock for the Inferno. Those who manage to cling onto themselves must fight for this privilege, to rise above the quagmire and win a breath of independence and power.

That's you.

Character Creation

Everyone in Hell is there for a reason.