World behind the world; another shade of grey.

The Inferno, full summary pulled together.

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Outside the city walls of Acre, Dante finds himself traveling in a dark forest. For him, the clear path has been lost, and only visions of slaughter and war can be seen clearly. The Bishop’s promises were nothing but empty lies; words spoken without the authority of God. Lost in the madness, Dante’s passions consume him as he gives in to the darkness.

Now, at the crossroads of this world and the next, only Dante’s love for his Beatrice keeps him moving forward. The darkness, however, is not done with Dante and has taken his love where no living man may go. Dante is now faced with the impossible task of reclaiming his love from the furthest reaches of Hell itself. With the help of a poet, Virgil, and the fire in his heart, Dante begins his descent…

Surface.

Limbo.

Lust.

Gluttony.

Greed.

Anger.

Heresy.

Violence.

Fraud.

Treachery.

A long time ago, back when I was an ignorant child, I asked a Wise Man; my grandfather, why the Hyena has a laugh. Thinking he had no answers for this I tried to contain my less sincere emotions about it. Not thinking about it, I stayed standing by him, and he told me to take a seat.

He sat down on the floor with a smile and lit a candle on a lap table just next to him. He began to tell me the story about the Laughing Hyena. Loosing grasp of attempting to ‘fool’ him, I felt compelled to listen: as both a sense of reality of the knowledge of my grandfather and as a form of penalty for letting my inner ‘complex’ take hold of me.

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