infernal hierarchy
The Infernal Court
De Plancy's court, which arranges hell as a nineteenth-century European state complete with ministers, ambassadors and a grand admiral. The joke is deliberate.
Entries per grouping
Source base of members
- 80+5
- 50–794
- 25–492
Alignment mix
- Fallen1
- Infernal9
- Disputed1
11 of 14 nodes link to a profile; the rest are structural labels from the source text.
14 nodes
the whole structure as one tree
Reading this tree
Nodes with a coloured dot and an underline link to a full profile. Structural nodes — spheres, ranks, offices — are labels from the source text itself and have no separate entry. Where a figure appears in more than one hierarchy, its profile lists every placement.
The book this structure comes from
A hierarchy is one text's arrangement, not a consensus. This is the text.

Dictionnaire Infernal
Jacques Collin de Plancy · 1818; illustrated ed. 1863 · French
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