FAVORITE ENEMY TYPE
HUSKS
DEMONS
ANGELS
MACHINES
Voting ended onMar 26
Husks are physical manifestations of the souls of the damned.
The physical form is based on the value of the original soul, which is determined by the strength of its will and its prevalence in public consciousness: the living souls that remember it.
Filth are the lowest form of Husk, whose souls were too weak and unimportant to even form a complete physical body.
Even among Husks, they have the lowest intelligence, driven purely by hunger.
While their tall stature may seem intimidating, Strays are afraid of most danger and will try to stay at a safe distance, only attacking via projectiles formed with Hell Energy.
Although controlling and manifesting this energy is a complicated task, Strays have very low intelligence and are only able to do so via pure instinct.
Nevertheless, humans were unable to replicate this level of accuracy and control, particularily[sic] the Stray’s ability to cause the energy orbs to selectively ignore other Husks.
As the Greed layer's punishment, Stalkers have been forced to carry heavy boulders up the monuments of mankind's greed for all eternity.
They have carried out their punishment for so long that their bodies have evolved, warped and grown to better suit it.
Their limbs have twisted to give them better balance while carrying boulders on their backs and their skin and muscles have completely dried up, allowing them to survive direct contact with the dunes of gold dust that Greed's sun has raised to unfathomably high temperatures.
However, an unidentified sentient force has replaced the boulders they would normally carry with high tech bombs that, upon detonation, will transform any nearby blood into the gold dust "sand" that covers the layer's surface.
Research has shown the technology to be very similar to the augmentations of the modified Strays known as Soldiers, so it is likely both modifications come from the same source.
The result of two souls attempting to manifest in the same space, causing an amalgamation of two physical bodies.
Due to the doubled body mass, they’re quite resilient to damage, but have very poor motor control and thus cannot aim with any degree of accuracy, resorting to barrages of energy orbs in the general direction of their opponent.
Soldiers are an augmented version of Strays, whose technological implants have been scavenged from broken machines to channel Hell Energy with greater efficiency.
This increase in power gives Soldiers more self-confidence, causing them to act more aggressively than normal Strays.
Despite the enhancements, their intelligence remains low and it has yet to be determined who or what actually augmented them.
Once the great and beloved king of the Lust layer, Minos has now been reduced to a shambling corpse.
Due to his incredible power of will and status as a just ruler in life remembered even millenia[sic] after his death, the manifestation of his soul is the largest Husk to ever have been recorded.
Small traces of the original soul can still be detected in the body, but the corpse itself is animated and controlled entirely by the snakelike Parasites that he once commanded.
Despite once bringing upon the renaissance of the Lust layer, his corpse now only seeks sinners to punish.
SISYPHEAN INSURRECTIONIST
The Sisyphean Insurrectionists were an army of Husks gathered and trained by King Sisyphus for overthrowing Heaven's control of Hell, freeing the sinners from their eternal torment.
During an era of chaos in Heaven, as the angelic watch was absent, Sisyphus began setting his plan in motion as his forces recruited all Husks that were intelligent enough to be useful to their cause and began attacking the demons that wandered the dunes of Greed.
Upon the establishment of the Council and subsequent return of peace to Heaven, Gabriel and an army of angels were sent down to crush the insurrection and subjugate Sisyphus' army.
Although their battle was well-fought, the inexperienced Insurrectionists could not match the educated strategy of the angels, who quickly descended upon King Sisyphus with great force, eventually overpowering and killing him, leaving the Insurrectionists without a chain of command.
Left scattered and disoriented, the warriors were easily picked off one by one, their bodies cut apart, leaving behind only the bare essentials required to carry on their eternal punishment of hauling heavy boulders up the monuments of mankind's arrogance and greed.
Although the blood of their enemies still stains their bodies and their grasp still clutches their fallen foes, their will and fierce fury only serve as mental torment in knowing how close they were to freedom.
Ferrymen are rare husks whose powerful bodies, trained skills and blind faith have granted them the chance of becoming the transporters of souls between the layers of Hell.
They have each been given a holy cloth by Heaven as a symbol of their devotion to God's order, which they wear over their bodies to hide the human form that they've grown to despise as a reminder of their sins in life stopping them from becoming angels, to the extent that they have torn off their own skin and flesh, leaving behind only bones.
Due to the holy power emanating from the cloth, Ferrymen's skeletal bodies have slowly been colored bright and radiant, and their skulls have enough latent energy to open gates that otherwise stop Husks from exiting their places of torment.
Each ferry can only have one Ferryman at a time, so when a new Ferryman is formed, it will fight another to the death in order to take their place and inherit their cloth. The loser's skull is taken as a trophy and used to grant the winner passage across the layers in order to transport the souls of the damned to their destinations.
Due to its illusory nature, very little is known about the 8th layer of Hell. Even its punishment remains shrouded in mystery.
Extended exposure to the layer, which seems like picturesque recreation of a New Peace community on the surface, causes eventual total collapse of sensory information and physical space, after which all connection is lost
The only point of reference is the elusive Mirror Reaper, an amalgamation of multiple husks arranged in a deliberate, twisted fashion, which seems to exist between spaces, often inside reflections, hence its name.
Although this example could be used to draw conclusions about the fates of its layer's inhabitants, it's important to keep in mind that this instance is the only one of its kind to ever be seen, which may imply that what happened to everyone else was far, far worse.
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