Nine Hells; two editions

I wanted to do some comparison-shopping between D&D and pathfinder, so I whipped this up real fast. It’s pretty under-detailed.

Both D&D Pathfinder
1st Layer
Avernus Portal-strewn fireball wasteland Volcanic wasteland where souls are judged
Former: Bel (Pit fiend general); Current: Zariel (Burned angel) Barbatos (Ragged tentacled hobo)
2nd Layer
Dis Iron City in a wasteland Similar
Dispater: humanoid devil type with control issues Same
3rd Layer
Minauros: Bog; acid rain; Jangling Hiter Erebus: Sewers of Dis, counting houses
Mammon: Serpent with human torso Mammon: Wealth-possessing spirit
4th Layer
Phlegethos / Phlegethon Fiery wasteland, torture plain (Soul-)Forges of hell
Fierna and Belial, incestuous Belial; shapeshifting construct
5th Layer
Stygia Freezing cold Temples & Libraries of sin & heresy
Levistus (frozen prince) and Geryon (bat-winged snake, though as a vestige a triple oni) Geryon: snake coils, with a triple body above
6th Layer
Malbolge Avalanches & Copper fortresses; now Hag Countess Ossuary Smouldering forest of false reward
Former: Beherit (Destroyed), Moloch (generic fiend), Hag Countess Malagard (turned into geography); current: Glasya (daughter of Asmodeus) Moloch: Flaming bull armor
7th Layer
Maladomini: Ruins and despoil Cocytus: Frozen hell
Baalzebul Slug-punished perfectionist Cloud of flies; prince of Hell
8th Layer
Cania/Caina SUPER frozen hell of lost cities Iron torture hell with sentient darkness
Mephistopheles Lord of hellfire Same, but linked to his plane
9th Layer
Nessus Rifts and Malsheem, the citadel of hell Desolate volcanic wasteland
Asmodeus

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