First circle: Limbo
Who goes: The unbaptized, and virtuous pagans.
What they do to you: Stick you in a deficient form of Heaven. It is nice there, but with no God the people in Limbo can't aspire to anything greater.
Second circle
Who goes: The lustful
What they do to you: Throw you into a never-ending violent storm.
Third circle:
Who goes: Gluttons
What they do to you: You wallow in a vile, putrid slush produced by an icy rain.
Fourth circle:
Who goes: Hoarders and spendthrifts
What they do to you: The hoarders joust with the spendthrifts. Their weapons are huge weights they push with their chests.
Fifth circle:
Who goes: The wrathful and the sullen
What they do to you: They take these guys to the River Styx, which is a slimy mess. The sullen have to lie on the bottom, and the actively pissed-off have to fight on top of the slime.
Sixth circle:
Who goes: Heretics
What they do to you: Stuff you in a flaming tomb
Seventh circle:
Who goes: The violent
What they do to you: It depends on who you were violent towards.
Violent toward other people: Immersed in a river of flaming, boiling blood
Suicides: You get turned into a tree, which is then eaten by Harpies
Violent toward God, Art and Nature: you all get sent to the Plain of Burning Sand, and from there receive your own special punishment:
Blasphemers get staked out on the sand
Sodomites have to run around in circles
Usurers crouch huddled and weeping
Eighth circle:
Who goes: Donald Trump and anyone else caught committing fraud
What they do to you:
Panderers get lined up and whipped by demons
Flatterers are boiled in diarrhea
People who sell "ecclesiastical favors" - at the time the Inferno was written, the Catholic Church was getting rich selling indulgences - get shoved head-down in a hole in the ground and have fire lick their feet for all time
Sorcerers have to walk backwards for eternity
Corrupt politicians are immersed in a lake of boiling tar
Hypocrites just have to walk around...but they do it dressed in a robe of lead
Thieves are thrown in a pit full of snakes and lizards, who bite them continuously
Counsellors of fraud are hidden from view inside their own tongue of flame
Sowers of Discord get chopped apart by a big demon who has a sword
Liars get stuck in a room where they suffer all sorts of horrid diseases.
(The Eighth Circle is kind of a default choice; since there's something for everyone's ass in this circle they can safely just throw everyone in there and be confident they did right by you.)
Ninth circle:
Who goes: Murderers and traitors
What they do to you: Stick you in a block of ice. The worse you were in life, the deeper you're placed.
The Center of Hell
The only one who's in here is Lucifer. He's buried up to his waist in ice and no one ever goes to him.
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