Seventh Level of Hell
Guarded by the Minotaur, who snarls in fury, and encircled within the river Phlegethon, filled with boiling blood, is
the Seventh Level of Hell. The violent, the assasins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers lament their pitiless mischiefs
in the river, while centaurs armed with bows and arrows shoot those who try to escape their punishment. The stench here
is overpowering. This level is also home to the wood of the suicides- stunted and gnarled trees with twisting branches
and poisoned fruit. At the time of final judgement, their bodies will hang from their branches. In those branches the
Harpies, foul birdlike creatures with human faces, make their nests. Beyond the wood is scorching sand where those who
committed violence against God and nature are showered with flakes of fire that rain down against their naked bodies.
Blasphemers and sodomites writhe in pain, their tongues more loosed to lamentation, and out of their eyes gushes forth
their woe. Usurers, who followed neither nature nor art, also share company in the Seventh Level.
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Low
Level 2 | High
Level 3 | High
Level 4 | High
Level 5 | Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very High
Level 7 | Very High
Level 8- the Malebolge | Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus | High