Dante Game

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Oof, with all this talk of movies, directors, philosophy-posts, and such, it looks like /lit/ could use a literary focused game of some sort. Well, I have an idea for a game that might be fun and maybe provoke some discussion:

Let's think of characters from literature post-Dante (or characters Dante wouldn't have known about) and think about where they might end up in the circles, planets, and terraces of Dante's afterlife. I'll start with 2

>Gilgamesh - Limbo: Pagan king and such makes Limbo seem obvious, but Limbo is such a fitting place for Gilgamesh. Immortalized in song alongside Homer, Vergil, and Orpheus, Gilgamesh lives in Limbo in a state of quiet happiness knowing that his work truly did immortalize him. It reminds me of Achilles being happy in Hades after discovering his son fought well for the Greeks in Odyssey.
>Peer Gynt - The Moon: I'm not so sure about this one. The moon is for the inconstant, and we have a character here who constantly changes throughout his life. But in the end one of his most important vows was kept, thus saving his soul