The visual gradient rises as the rank rises, and it runs backwards from what anyone expects.
That is what makes Hell insidious: what is most likely to kill you is not what frightens you most to look at.
"Hell is not one. Hell is many — and they hate one another more than they hate Heaven." — Cardinal-Inquisitor Lorenz Severo, Tractatus de Hierarchia Infernali, 1859
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