Legion: From Legio, a Latin word signifying a levied (legere) military unit. As an adjective it can mean "multitude" or "innumerable." Several medieval scholars have carefully counted the number of "Infernal Legions" available to various daemons, very much like a modern intelligence officer would count missiles or tank regiments. The use of the term comes from Mark V.5, where a horde of "legio" daemons is driven out of a man and into a herd of 2000 pigs. The possessed pigs then stampede off a cliff and drown in the Sea of Galilee.

Daemon: "Spirit" in Latin, and no Daemon worth his salt would have it any other way. The general view is that English "Demon" sounds tacky and the old Greek "Daimon" might just as well be some horrid little island resort.

Triumvirate: Triad. Three persons sharing power or a common goal. Originally "of three men" in Latin. The Late Roman Republic saw the two most famous of triumvirates and both of them ended with at least two of the three parties involved dead.

The HellGame's Hell is an enormous cut-and-paste job - very much like Hell itself. The truth is that the more one tries to sort out the myths of Hell and its inhabitants, the more confused one becomes. All the inconsistencies and ramblings make you wonder: how on earth did this unholy mess manage to scare the wits out of people for nearly two millennia? Quite possibly the concepts of Hell and the Devil have endured simply because they're just a couple of really vague ideas. Hell as an open concept, so to speak. Any culture or any person's concepts of evil just latch on to the basic ideas and take it from there: fill in the blanks with your own visions of doom and gloom. To some people the Devil is a goat-headed, snarling, unclean beast, while to others he looks like Al Pacino in a suit. The images can be just as sinister if viewed from the proper perspective.

Anyhow, the concept of the Devil himself was most likely highjacked from Iranian theology and fitted with a Greek satyr's attributes - Arihman gone Greek semi-goat. Hell itself is a mixture of all the Lands of the Dead one can think of, with Greek imagery prevailing. Similarly, the daemons are a motley crew drafted out of every corner of Indo-European myth. The old mainstays, like Baal and Moloch, are twisted versions of gods belonging to the peoples that the Israelites encountered in Palestine. Later additions include Egyptian, Babylonian and Slavic gods and spirits. According to some, even the prophet Mohammed (Mahomet) was demonised and turned into Baphomet. Some Central African deities have made it into Hell via a roundabout route through the West Indies. From this perspective, it is remarkable that, apart from Hell's nine circles, little has been salvaged from Norse and Germanic myth. One would have expected the gloomy and downright evil characters such as Odin and Loki would have made excellent daemons, but apparently the daemon quota was filled up pretty quickly. On the other hand, maybe a mythos whose vision of paradise was a perpetual bar room brawl was a little difficult to assimilate.

Hell is a sprawling tradition that includes many myths and images. It was latched on to by early Christianity during the Late Roman era, and has expanded ever since. The whole package is eclectic beyond belief, with almost nothing originating in the Bible. Part of Christianity's success throughout history was its ability to annihilate any opposition while at the same time assimilating popular key aspects of local folklore. So in a very real sense, Hell is a tribute to those demolished and forgotten cultures.