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Common · One of 400

The Eighteen Hells

“That is the part the living forget — in the Diyu, unlike in life, the paperwork always finishes.”

A Cinnabar immortal of Diyu

3 known connections · an open question

The living story

The story so far

The underworld's eighteen departments of correction: the tongue-pulling office, the boiling-oil bureau, the mirror-of-evil-deeds waiting room. Every punishment fits the crime with bureaucratic precision, and every sentence ends. That is the part the living forget — in the Diyu, unlike in life, the paperwork always finishes.

Happening now

All eighteen departments are running tonight, on schedule, the damned serving their sentences to the day. The mirror-of-evil-deeds waiting room has a line. It always has a line.

What may come

When the last sentence ends — and every sentence ends, that is the rule — the eighteen departments will close their doors in order, from the first to the last, and the underworld will be the quietest bureaucracy in existence. The paperwork will be finished. It will be the first time.

Connected

Diyu

The ten Yama kings, the Black and White Impermanence, Judge Cui with his brush, Meng Po with her soup of forgetting. Justice here is thorough, the paperwork is eternal, and the bridge out is narrower than you remember.

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At a glance — details & stats
Element
Cinnabar
Court
Diyu — the Courts of the Underworld
Rarity
Common
Personality
The Eighteen Hells. The underworld's eighteen departments of correction: the tongue-pulling office, the boiling-oil bureau, the mirror-of-evil-deeds waiting room. Every punishment fits the crime with bureaucratic precision, and every sentence ends.
Edition
One of 400
Stats
power 88 · speed 25 · charm 35