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==Story== {{See also|List of characters in Dante's Inferno}} During the [[Third Crusade]], the story follows Dante (voiced by [[Graham McTavish]]), a crusader general who, despite his faith, has committed numerous atrocities during the war. At the city of [[Acre, Israel|Acre]], Dante is entrusted to keep a group of Saceren prisoners safe so [[King Richard I]] ([[Peter Egan]]) could obtain a holy relic from [[Saladin]]. But when the prisoners are brutally slaughtered, Dante is given orders to take the holy relic. During the attack, Dante is stabbed in the back by an assassin, whereupon [[Death (personification)|Death]] appears before him. Despite being led to believe by a Bishop his sins were absolved "en post facto", Dante is ruled by Death to be condemned to "everlasting damnation for [his] sins." Dante refuses to accept his fate, and destroys Death, taking his great [[scythe]]. Dante leaves the Crusade, stitching a red leather [[holy cross]]-shaped [[tapestry]] onto his torso, which depicts every sin he has committed. He returns to [[Florence]], only to find his lover [[Beatrice Portinari]] ([[Vanessa Branch]]) and father Alighiero ([[J.B. Blanc]]) brutally murdered. Beatrice's soul appears before Dante, telling him that she knew he would come after her before a shadowy manifestation of [[Lucifer]] ([[John Vickery]]) drags her into darkness. After making it to a chapel, Dante blesses the holy cross that Beatrice gave to him upon making their vows to be true to each other, to protect him against the evils that await. Upon doing so, a crack in the earth opens up, allowing Dante to descend to the Gates of Hell. At the Gates, he encounters [[Virgil]] (Bart McCarthy), who knows of Dante's past sins, yet agrees to guide him through the Nine Circles of Hell. Dante begins his descent at the shores of Hell where the newly damned souls are forced aboard the great ferry of [[Charon (mythology)|Charon]], whom he forces to sail Dante across. After arriving at Limbo, Dante confronts the serpentine Judge of the Damned, King [[Minos]]. After Minos denies Dante passage deeper into Hell, Dante fights the Judge and kills him. Dante then enters the second circle, [[Lust]], where he enters the Carnal Tower to find Beatrice, whose soul is slowly being corrupted by Lucifer who also reveals to her that Dante broke his vows to Beatrice with a captive woman back in Acre, in exchange for sparing the life of her "brother." Reaching the top of the tower, Dante confronts and slays Queen [[Cleopatra VII|Cleopatra]] and her lover [[Marc Antony]]. Entering the third circle, [[Gluttony]], Dante slays its guardian the "great [[worm]]" [[Cerberus]]. It is here where Lucifer shows Dante how Beatrice and his father Alighiero met their demise, both being slain by the assassin from Acre, revealed to be "brother" of the woman Dante slept, yet is actually her husband. In the fourth circle; [[Seven deadly sins#Greed|Greed]], Dante encounters the greatly deformed body of Alighiero, promised by Lucifer a 1000 years free of torment and a hoard of gold if he kills his own son. After overcoming the puzzles of the fallen God of Wealth; [[Plutus]], Dante defeats Alighiero. In the fifth circle, [[Anger]], Dante begins to float across the vile [[River Styx]] on what appears to be a floating platform. Upon reaching the other side, however, the platform is in fact the top of the head of the gigantic fiery demon [[Phlegyas]] who then proceeds to attack Dante. Overcoming this, Lucifer appears before Dante with Beatrice who, broken-hearted by Dante's betrayals, willingly gives herself to Lucifer by eating the forbidden fruit. Dante rides atop Phlegyas who he controls to smash down the walls of the [[City of Dis]] and the sixth circle, [[Heresy]]. Beyond lies the seventh circle, Violence, where Dante traverses its harsh landscape, including [[Phlegethon]] and the Wood of Suicides. Within the woods Dante encounters his own mother who now hangs from the trees, where he becomes deeply saddened and enraged having been told as a child that she died of an illness but in fact hanged herself because of the cruelty of his father. Absolving her of her sin, he continues beyond the woods to the Desert of Burning Sands for those violent against God, where Dante also encounters his former comrade Crusader and brother-in-law Francesco (Tom Tate), who is now a horribly disfigured version of his former self with various swords protruding from his back, who now desires revenge against Dante for his state of being. Upon defeating Francesco, Dante absolves him. Before Dante can reach Lucifer, Beatrice put him through the challenges of ten stages of [[Malebolge]]'s eighth circle, Fraud, where each depicts the fraudsters throughout history from simple thieves to the false [[Popes]]. At the entrance of the ninth and last circle, [[Treachery]], where Dante insists to Beatrice that he has faced all of his sins. Beatrice reminds him how he was the one who slaughtered the Saracen prisoners out of mere frustration and that Francesco died taking the blame for it. Accepting that he is damned beyond redemption, Dante offers his soul in exchange for Beatrice's salvation and shows her the cross she gave him. This act of supreme sacrifice undoes the evil transformation of Beatrice and restores her to her former self. As Dante watches, the [[Archangel]] [[Gabriel]] descends from Heaven and carries Beatrice's soul away, promising Dante that he will see Beatrice again and that his redemption is close at hand. Journeying through the icy realm of Treachery and fighting his way to Lake [[Cocytus]], Dante finally confronts Lucifer himself: A three-faced giant demon chained within the frozen lake. After defeating the giant demon, Lucifer reveals that by reaching the final circle, Dante has proved himself worthy of freeing him from his prison: the giant demon itself. Emerging in his true form and battling Dante, Lucifer reveals the mortal's efforts to defeat him will not matter. Summoning the vision of the assassin's blade in Acre, Dante is horrified to realize he died in Acre and thus can not leave Hell. Lucifer gleefully reveals that now free, he will rise from Hell, overthrow God and seize Heaven, but Dante, with the many souls he gained through his trials, re-imprisons Lucifer deeper in the ice once again before being taken to [[Purgatory]] by an [[archangel]]. Here, Dante sees the freed soul of Beatrice awaiting him in [[Paradise]]. The final scene shows Dante at the step of Mount Purgatory ripping the tapestry off his body before it disintegrates revealing a snake that slithers away as Lucifer's laugh can be heard.
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