Naraka is the Buddhist hell that the Descent reveals around the Dantean pit: it “multiplies hells according to each one’s consciousness” — not one punishment ordered by circles but as many hells as souls.
| Type | Hell |
| Setting | Petrified Paris, around the Dantean cone |
| Spanish entry | Naraka — el infierno budista |
Description
The group first braved the “more traditional” hell, the inverted cone of the Divine Comedy, where they made Minos stumble from his seat and faced his judgment, the coils of his tail tied like a whip. But that cone was only the shrunken remnant of broad worlds — Terran, Antiterran and others not of our making. The rest was petrified. Naraka is the face of that remnant: a hell that orders guilt not by levels but by mind.
Petrified Paris
Naraka’s setting is a petrified Paris: rock, stone landscapes recalling Petra. To reach the Île-de-France — Notre-Dame, the Louvre — the group took the shortest and most dangerous way, the marshy south, through the catacombs. The pits of the sixth circle (City of Dis) lie nearby.
At its heart the cathedral works as a nexus of universes — “three times Nexus-War”, realities superimposed within the temple. There, in the cathedral fallen “into the claws of hell”, where a great funeral was held, Maristo’s debt to his master was tied, echoing the group’s rescue of the Castle of the Prism.