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'''Paradeus''' (帕拉蒂斯) is a violent non-state actor based in [[Germany]], described as a terrorist group and a cult.<ref>{{cite|gfl|sc|Confidential Information VI}}</ref> It acts as the third antagonistic faction of [[Girls' Frontline]], introduced in [[Continuum Turbulence]]. Before its true name was revealed in [[Isomer]], it was only known as ''The White Faction'' due to their primary color. Possessing advanced technology, it recruits Yellow Zone populations by promising them a cure for [[ELID]]. Paradeus' motto is the [[Rossartrism|Rossartrist]] slogan “The shining beacon in a brave new world”, the same as [[Griffin & Kryuger]].<ref name=CT310 />

The apparent leader of Paradeus is [[William|William von Oberstein]], a [[90wish]] member with access to advanced [[Relic Technology]], who the Paradeus members call "Father"<ref name=CT310 /> or "Master"<ref name=CT0>{{cite|gfl|ct|Ground Zero}}</ref> (it has been suggested that this title is also used by [[Rudolf von Oberstein]]).<ref name=SSS3 /> Aside from forming fanatic communities and militias in Yellow Zones, Paradeus uses a technology known as "Technical Theory of Biological Human Automation" to create more-than-human soldiers<ref>{{cite|gfl|pr|Falling Star lambda}}</ref> and operates a powerful surveillance apparatus called the Bee Sting System.<ref name=FP11>{{cite|gfl|fp|E1-1}}</ref> Their troops are led by the [[#Nytos|Nytos]], who are clones blurring even further the line between human and machine who can be used in battle, as command units, or even as body doubles to infiltrate the upper society.

Paradeus units use a force field applying a percentage damage reduction to incoming attacks, which can be destroyed by [[Heavy Ordnance Corps]].

==History==
===Formation===
The precursor of Paradeus is the European Yellow Zone cult called Evangel Portal,<ref name=Bee>{{cite|gfl|[[Bee Sting]]}}</ref> based in the Rhine region.<ref name=Global>{{cite|rc|[[Secret Documents#Global Affairs and Impacts on Religion]]}}</ref> Founded in the 2030s by a man named William, the cult preached that a Holy Spirit would descend on Earth and take the faithful through the "Evangel Portal"<ref name=IF9 /> (sometimes translated "Gate of Evangel")<ref name=IF12 /> to reach the Sacred Land, free from mortal suffering and Collapse radiation. In 2049, [[Nemhran|Hanna von Oberstein]] and her daughter [[Lunasia]] joined the cult, becoming its Holy Mother and Holy Maiden. Evangel Portal was already an influential group due to its focus on accumulating the wealth surrendered by its adherents rather than violent action, and the purported miracles of its saints increased their influence further.<ref name=Bee /> The same year, Evangel Portal became the largest postwar cult in West Germany.<ref name=Global />

However, Lunasia grew extremely hateful of humanity at some point, and used her influence to contact [[Martha Meitner]], ordering her to turn her into a "miracle" that would destroy mankind, using the cultists for her experiments. Lunasia specified that her mother be the first sacrifice, and asked her brother, also named [[William]], to turn her corpse into [[Nemhran|a Nyto]]. She also made William promise to resurrect her if she was killed.<ref name=IF12>{{cite|gfl|isolation|Part 12}}</ref> Hanna died from ritual suicide, cutting her throat along with many other cultists to reach the Promised Land.<ref name=IF9>{{cite|gfl|isolation|Part 9}}</ref> The very same year of 2049, Evangel Portal was violently disbanded by the German government during the First Purge against violent Yellow Zone activities,<ref name=Global /><ref name=Bee /> but Lunasia reportedly moved on to lead other organizations until her death a few years later.<ref name=Global />

The earliest known activity of Paradeus took place in 2060, in the European Yellow Zone,<ref name=Invest>{{cite|rc|[[Secret Documents#Investigation into the Origin of Religions]]}}</ref> in Southern Germany, where an illegal orphanage was found to house multiple young Nyto clones.<ref name=PL /> Before that, they had recruited many brilliant minds in diverse fields of research from around the world into the front company [[Galatea Corporation]].<ref>{{cite|gfl|ss|SSE03-2}}</ref><ref name=SSS3>{{cite|gfl|ss|SSE03-3}}</ref> At some point, Paradeus established a lab in the depths of the abandoned Paldiski Submarine Base near Tallinn, Estonia, on the site of a Starfish construct.<ref name=PL>{{cite|gfl|pl|Causality Separating Plane}}</ref> They had a long partnership with the [[Soviet Union#Vory v Zakone|Vory v Zakone]].

Shortly after Paradeus' existence became known, the Balkan Section of the [[Stasi]]'s Foreign Intelligence Service launched "Operation Cornerstone of Peace" to counter it, placing Major [[K|Kain Schwaben]] as operation commander.<ref name=Invest /> The Neo-Soviet [[Statesec]] quickly approached Schwaben to collaborate on the matter. Soviet intelligence enabled the Stasi to identify one of Paradeus' collaborators spotted in Belgrade, Captain [[Yegor]], leading to a clique led by [[General Carter]] and an unknown group based near Sarajevo.<ref>{{cite|rc|[[Secret Documents#Experimental Unit "Aurora" Mission Overview]]}}</ref>

===Operations in Eastern Europe===
As allies of [[General Carter]], Paradeus intervened as a fourth party during the [[Great Retreat]] in 2064, after the [[KCCO]] turned against [[Griffin and Kryuger]]. Their original goal was to capture {{enemy name|Elisa|boss}} after she melded with {{doll name|M4A1|AR|4}}, but this plan failed. The Nytos led the Paradeus troops in an effort to wipe out the remaining G&K troops, but they failed when the commanding [[Nyto Black]] was incapacitated by {{doll name|M4 SOPMOD II|AR|4}} and self-destructed.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ct|Chapter 2}}</ref> A separate force led by a [[Nyto White]] successfully captured [[the Commander]] before intending to sacrifice herself in an assault on the G&K forces coming to retrieve the Commander, claiming she would reach awakening. The Paradeus forces were pinned down when {{doll name|RO635|SMG|5}} used her megaphone to lure [[ELID]]-infected toward them, but the Nyto White refused to attack them, calling them “the Baptized” and opening herself to a headshot from {{doll name|M82A1|RF|5}}.<ref name=CT310 />

Paradeus treated the Commander's radiation poisoning during nine weeks before interrogating them to determine the whereabouts of [[Squad 404]], [[Angelia]] and {{enemy name|Elisa|boss}}.<ref name=CT0 /> Squad 404 and G&K raided the base and rescued the Commander,<ref name=CT310 /> but they encountered Paradeus again three months later while searching for an informant possessing information about Angelia in Belgrade.<ref>{{cite|gfl|11-3}}</ref>

During the Belgrade international cooperation talks, Paradeus attempted to kidnap [[Gilda Ulrich]] and exchange her to [[Statesec]] for confidential information<ref>{{cite|gfl|iso|Lost Bargaining Chip II}}</ref> and to recover a lost [[Pike]] node. During the [[Paldiski Incident]], the Commander, K and Angelia discovered that Paradeus had been using the lost city of Tallinn as an ELID experiment site for {{enemy name|Isomer (Enemy)|alt=Isomers}} and lost refugees, and they found more information about them at the Paldiski Submarine Base where they had established and recently abandoned a Nyto lab.

===Operations in Germany===
In [[Germany]], Angelia tracked down William in Bremen and uncovered the network of Paradeus allies such as the Flora Institute providing them with modified [[Epiphyllum]] flowers and the Berle Orphanage involved in their child trafficking. Angelia also discovered that some Nytos like {{enemy name|Morridow (Enemy)|boss|alt=Morridow}} were infiltrated among normal humans when she attempted to abduct her. In Berlin, Angelia and the Commander worked to foil Paradeus' Operation Cocoon by intercepting the [[Iaso's Box]]es they planned to spread Collapse Radiation all over the city, in order to locate [[ELID]] immunosomes. Angelia visited William's old home, but she was betrayed and captured by [[RPK-16|her own team member]] who wanted to become a Nyto. Paradeus also manipulated their rogue agent [[Machlian]] to lure the [[OGAS]] consciousness called [[Dandelion]] and the Commander into a trap, but they survived with the help of [[M4A1|M4A1(?)]] and captured Morridow. They however lost her while attempting to exchange her for Angelia, and the Nyto revealed to William that M4A1 was still of interest to Paradeus.

As Paradeus shut down its operations in Berlin, they blackmailed the German government by organizing the massacre of a rogue [[Stasi]] team in one of the Ministry of Defense's plants, threatening to disclose the incident and destabilize the government if they revealed their ties with Paradeus. The Stasi struck back by weeding out [[Minor Characters#Colonel Dupieux|“Polar Bear”]], a Paradeus agent infiltrated in Statesec, and with the help of the Stasi's director [[Romy Riefenstahl]], the Commander organized [[Operation Aeneas]] to locate and infiltrate Paradeus' headquarters in [[Avernus]], in the Dead Sea Black Zone near Berlin. By that point, the Commander had become known as the only person to have not only opposed and survived, but successfully cornered Paradeus.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ls|18}}</ref>

By the end of the [[Battle of the Dead Sea]], Paradeus had lost their main base in Germany as well as several high-ranking Nytos against the combined assault of [[Griffin & Kryuger]] and [[Statesec]].

===Downfall===
Paradeus has been considered wiped out during the [[Battle of Frankfurt]].

In a 2071 article on Paradeus, it was described as the most dangerous cult of the 21st century, rampaging through the contaminated zones of Central and Eastern Europe unopposed by both bandits and governments. But the general public was not aware of the circumstances of its disappearance in the mid-2060s, so sudden that scavengers who ventured in their former strongholds found a wealth of their resources left behind. The most widespread narrative, especially in Neo-Soviet military circles, told that Paradeus was formed by former [[NATO]] soldiers trying to take down the NSU, and that they were destroyed during an all-out offensive. Claimed evidence supporting this story include the involvement of both the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Griffin & Kryuger PMC led by former Internal Affairs member [[Berezovich Kryuger]], and the suspicious movements of the Western Army Group, disturbances at the border and mass arrests in the Neo-Soviet military in 2064.

Theories considered fringe included claims that Paradeus were technologically advanced aliens colonizers that left Earth after finding it too contaminated, or that Paradeus was built by a scientist seeking revenge and was dealt a killing blow to its backbone by a single member of Griffin & Kryuger. The NSU never acknowledged the existence of Paradeus.<ref>{{cite|rc|[[Secret Documents#Speculation on the Decline of Religions]]}}</ref>

===Remnants===
Paradeus survived through local cults worshiping Collapse radiation at the border between Yellow and Red Zones in Eastern Europe. They impeded the [[Purification Project]] and were one of the rare targets that the [[Varjagers]] wouldn't attack.<ref>{{cite|gfl2|[[Classified Briefings#Sebeş-02B Work Journal]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite|gfl2|[[Classified Briefings#Comprehensive Black Zone Survey Report]]}}</ref> It's unclear whether Paradeus took over already existing cults or if they created the cults themselves.

The [[Elmo]] discovered contamination zone sects related to Paradeus in April 2074. Led by [[Niter]]s, these sects promised to cure [[ELID]] sufferers in exchange for their service as Unitates servants, while a Black Nyto acted as a higher commander. Their goal was to find the “Lost Cavitas” on behalf of a certain Lady Immore.<ref name=SL81>{{cite|gfl2|SL-8-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite|gfl2|SL-8-4}}</ref> Another branch studied the potential of fusing Collapse-infused plant matter with animals and humans.<ref>{{cite|gfl2|[[Amidst Wings of Gray]] GW-1-8}}</ref> The links between Paradeus and the [[Girard Group]], as well as the biopharmaceutical company suspected to have produced the [[Helena]] clones, are still unclear.<ref>{{cite|gfl2|SL-6-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite|gfl2|SL-8-5}}</ref>

[[The Commander]] noted the sharp decline in the technological capability and manpower of these sects as a sign that [[William]] was no longer affiliated with them.<ref>{{cite|gfl2|SL-8-2}}</ref>

== Members ==
[[File:Faction_Logo_Paradeus.png|500px|right]]
*[[William|William von Oberstein]] (leader)
*Named Nytos 
**{{enemy name|Nimogen|boss}}
**{{enemy name|Mercurows|boss}}
**{{enemy name|Narciss|boss}}
**{{enemy name|Morridow (Enemy)|boss}}
**{{enemy name|Gray (Enemy)|boss}}
**{{enemy name|Grig|boss}}
**{{enemy name|Bramedb|boss}}
**{{enemy name|Nemhran|boss}}
**{{enemy name|Koleda|boss}}
**{{enemy name|Tareus|boss}}
**{{enemy name|Sana|boss}}
**[[Anna]]
**[[Machlian]]
*Other
**{{enemy name|Pandora|boss}} (RPK-16)

===Cultists===
*[[Minor Characters#Elia|Elia]]
*[[Minor Characters#Elsa|Elsa]]

The Paradeus community founded by Galatea Corporation in Bohnsdorf, who attracted refugees with promise of food and shelter, treated Paradeus as a monotheistic god and advocated for "post-technologic" primitivism, forbidding entertainment and electronic objects (including prosthetics and life-saving technologies), as they believed these objects were the source of [[ELID]].<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|The Birth of Apate I}}</ref><ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Lurking}}</ref> The village contained observation posts with one-way glass for rich upper-class people to spy on the refugees as entertainment.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|The Birth of Apate II}}</ref>

==Units==
===Nytos===
{{StoryQuote|We need hearts filled with wisdom, courage, loyalty and sacrifice. The only thing that is unnecessary is rationality.|<ref name=FP11 />}}
Nytos (sometimes called “Baptized”)<ref name=ISO1B3 /> are girls or women (there are no known male Nytos)<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Balls and Vase}}</ref> whose consciousness has been physically embodied and functions like a [[Neural Cloud]]. This enables them to interface with digital networks like [[Tactical Doll]]s<ref name=CT310 /><ref name=CT28 /> or establish a direct connection with other Nytos,<ref>{{cite|gfl|ss|The Deluge}}</ref> but also exposes them to hacking.<ref name=CT310 /> This biological neural cloud has been dubbed Virtual Cognition Image<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Ariadne’s Clew I}}</ref> (VCI)<ref name=FP11 /><ref group=Note>Though [[Dandelion]] says she made up the name Virtual Cognition Image on the spot in [[Mirror Stage]], the name is used by Paradeus Nytos themselves in [[Fixed Point]] and [[Longitudinal Strain]].</ref> or "virtual consciousness".<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Ariadne’s Clew III}}</ref> The people turned into Nytos are mostly mass-produced clones,<ref>{{cite|gfl|iso|Shark and the Sea V}}</ref><ref name=SL81 /> but also acquired through human trafficking<ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Sweet Dreams Box – End}}</ref> and kidnapping of survivors of a [[Iaso's Box]].<ref name=MS29B>{{cite|gfl|ms|Cretan Labyrinth II}}</ref> They are also said to be created from corpses.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ls|21}}</ref>

The basic Nyto Black and Nyto White are mass-produced, but among the named Nytos only {{enemy name|Tareus|boss}} was known to have multiple active clones at once.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ls|35}}</ref> Most Nytos have an appearance close to {{doll name|M4A1|AR|4}}<ref name=CT0 /> and have their bodies modified with cybernetic enhancements,<ref name=PL46 /><ref name=PL /> but they still bleed like normal humans.<ref name=CT310 /><ref name=CT28 /> Others remain mostly unmodified save for their brain, making them closer to humans, depending on the manner Paradeus intend to use them.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Dreams on the Island of Dia IV}}</ref> Cybernetic enhancements typically include replacement of the legs and arms and added head equipment for lower-ranked Nytos, while higher-ranked Nytos can receive less visible enhancements and attachable extra limbs for combat.

Nytos are all byproducts of [[William]]'s attempts to create a pan-immunosome<ref name=FP414>{{cite|gfl|fp|E4-14}}</ref> (except the proto-Nyto {{enemy name|Sana|boss}}),<ref>{{cite|gfl|ss|E3-10}}</ref> but none of them have been a successful experiment.<ref>{{cite|gfl|12-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite|gfl|E2-4}}</ref> Because all known Nytos are considered imperfect, they are all technically [[#Isomers|Isomers]], though they are rarely properly referred as such.<ref name=SC24>{{cite|gfl|sc|Nameless Exiles II}}</ref><ref name=FP414 /> According to Morridow and Gray, {{enemy name|Nemhran|boss}} is an “abnormal” Nyto, possessing emotions without desires.<ref name=FP11 /> According to Morridow, individual Nytos cannot be recreated once dead, as Tactical Dolls can.<ref name=FP414 />

The hierarchy of Nytos is based on their closeness to William's ideal Nyto, and higher Nytos often despise lower ones. Higher-ranked Nytos tend to have white hair. Nyto Whites are considered to have a greater sense of self than Nyto Blacks and have complete authority over them, though they still share the same gestalt mind.<ref name=CT310>{{cite|gfl|ct|White Doll}}</ref> {{enemy name|Gray|boss}} and {{enemy name|Narciss|boss}} had authority over Nyto Whites,<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Hemera Points to the Light III}}</ref><ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Night Festival}}</ref> while {{enemy name|Morridow|boss}} had authority over Gray and Narciss.<ref name=MS29B /> Lower-ranked Nytos usually call higher-ranked ones “Big Sister”, though some with significant bonds use other titles like “Teacher” or no title at all. Higher-ranked Nytos don't emit the same characteristic signal as lower-ranked ones<ref name=ISO1B3>{{cite|gfl|iso|Cat and Mouse III}}</ref> and refuse to be called Nytos,<ref>{{cite|gfl|iso|Faith of Blood I}}</ref><ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Bridge of Eternity}}</ref> though there are no alternative name for them yet apart from descriptions such as “augmented human”.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Absent}}</ref> The strict command hierarchy means Paradeus units not commanded by a Nyto will stop moving.<ref name=CT28>{{cite|gfl|ct|For the Future}}</ref>

It is possible for a Nyto to weaken or break free of Paradeus' indoctrination, such as with [[Adeline]], [[Alina]] and [[Tareus]].

*{{enemy name|Nyto Black|boss}}
*{{enemy name|Nyto White|boss}}

===[[Niter]]s===
By 2074, the remnants of Paradeus had developed a lower-grade version of the Nytos called the [[Niter]]s. Niters retain their mechanical body parts and virtual cognition image, but unlike Nytos, they rely on nanomachines for mental control and their combat abilities are closer to those of a Tactical Doll. Niters acted as local leaders for Yellow Zone cults in Eastern Europe.<ref name=SL81 /><ref>{{cite|gfl2|SL-8-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite|gfl2|[[Amidst Wings of Gray]] GW-1-7}}</ref>

===Isomers===
While [[Dandelion]] calls all Nytos "Isomers" as she sees them as imperfect copies,<ref name=SC24 /> [[Persica]] uses this term for "failed" Nytos candidates who didn't live up to expectations and were abandoned by Paradeus.<ref name=PL46>{{cite|gfl|pl|Sintering}}</ref> In chemistry, isomers are molecules with the same number and types of atoms, but organized differently.

Isomers aim to merge with a similar but perfected consciousness like their own to be liberated.<ref>{{cite|gfl|sc|Isomer I}}</ref>

*{{enemy name|Isomer (Enemy)}}
*{{enemy name|Isomer White|boss}}
*{{enemy name|Isomer Black|boss}}

In Tallinn, the Isomers recognized the existence of four previous Chosen Ones while awaiting a fifth one who would liberate them:<br>
:<i>The first walked into the night with the inferior articles for Father. The black of night dyed the hems of her dress, and the flower blossoms withered within the cage of the fallen.<br>
:The second was incomplete, and fell before she went out. The colors of evening froze her time, and the flower blossoms ceased to grow amidst eternal suffering.<br>
:The third held her sisters' hands, and together they charged into the day. The sunlight shattered upon her black sleeves, and the flowers fell into the steely water without blooming.<br>
:The fourth lost her friend, and lost her way within the fog. Her time has not yet come, and she merely lives by imitating her kin.</i><ref>{{cite|gfl|sc|E2-5}}</ref>

===Standard units (2060s)===
Paradeus' basic field troops like the {{enemy name|Strelet}} are manufactured from the bodies of ELID {{enemy name|Infected}}.<ref>{{cite|gfl|11-4E}}</ref><ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Pollinosis III}}</ref>

*Humanoid units
**{{enemy name|Strelet}}
**{{enemy name|Rodelero}}
**{{enemy name|Grenadier}}
**{{enemy name|Murat}}
**{{enemy name|Defender (Enemy)}}
**{{enemy name|Hannibal}}
**{{enemy name|Warden}}
**{{enemy name|Maccabee}}
**{{enemy name|Staff of Aesclepius}}
*Armored vehicles
**{{enemy name|Uhlan}}
*Mechs
**{{enemy name|Doppelsoldner}}
**{{enemy name|Thunder (Enemy)}}
**{{enemy name|Roarer}}
**{{enemy name|Garmr}}
**{{enemy name|Hymnal Organ}}
**{{enemy name|Quill of Patmos}}
**{{enemy name|Gebbennu|boss}}
*Other units
**{{enemy name|Pyxis}} (turret platforms)
**{{enemy name|Dish of Aceso}}/{{enemy name|Elusinian Mysteries}} (Collapse Fluid cannon)

===Unitates===
The regular soldiers of the Paradeus remnant sects of 2074 are called ''Unitates'' (singular ''Unitas''). They are usually [[ELID]] sufferers from the contamination zones who have been promised recovery in exchange for their devotion.

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==Trivia==
*The faction name is a combination of the Greek prefix ''para-'' (in a general sense of “detached from”) and the Latin word ''deus'' (god). The theme of “detachment from god” continues in the name of their base, [[Avernus]], the gate to the underworld in Roman myths, and their prayer (which exists in different versions) which reuses fragments of Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy'', especially the ''Inferno'' book about the different regions of the Christian Hell:
{| class=gf-table
! width=20% | [[Fixed Point]], "Dead Sea" !! width=20% | [[Fixed Point]], Ascent !! width=20% | [[Cartesian Theater]], The Gold of the Azure !! width=20% | [[Cartesian Theater]], The Blank Signature & [[Zero Charge]], Pale-Voiced !! width=20% | Dante, ''Divine Comedy'' (Longfellow translation, 1867)
|-
| Through me you pass into the city of woe, 
Through me you pass into eternal pain, 
Through me among the people lost for aye.

由我进入愁苦之城，
由我进入极乐之塔,
由我进入万劫不复的人群之中。
| Through me the way into the city of miserable melancholy, 
Through me the way into the tower of utmost delight, 
Through me the way into the doomed masses.

由我进入愁苦之城，
由我进入极乐之塔,
由我进入万劫不复的人群中。
|Through me you pass into the city of woe, 
Through me you pass into eternal pain, 
Through me among the people lost for aye.

由我进入愁苦之城，
由我进入极乐之塔,
由我进入万劫不复的人群中。
|Through me you pass into the city of woe, 
Through me you pass into eternal pain, 
Through me among the people lost for aye.

由我进入愁苦之城
由我进入极乐之塔
由我进入万劫不复的人群之中
|Through me the way is to the city dolent;
Through me the way is to eternal dole;
Through me the way among the people lost. (''Inferno'', Canto III)
|-
| Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd, 
To rear me was the task of power divine, 
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.

正义推动了崇高的造物主，
它以神圣的力量、最高的智慧、发自本原的爱，
在此间创造了我们。
|Two suns, each illuminating a path.
The path of the mundane world, and the path of the merciful Father.

两个太阳，分别照明两条路径。
尘世的路径，和慈父的路径。
|Two suns, each illuminating a path. 
The path of the mundane world, and the path of the merciful Father.

两个太阳，分别照明两条路径。
尘世的路径，和慈父的路径。
|Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd, 
To rear me was the task of power divine, 
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.

正义推动了崇高的造物主，
它以神圣的力量、最高的智慧、发自本原的爱，
在此间创造了我们
| Justice incited my sublime Creator;
Created me divine Omnipotence, 
The highest Wisdom and the primal Love. (''Inferno'', Canto III)

Two suns to have, which one road and the other,
Of God and of the world, made manifest. (''Purgatorio'', Canto XVI)
|-
|Before me things create were none, save things eternal, 
And eternal I endure.

在我以前未有造物，
而我也将永世长存。
|Sanctum turned into the Devil's pit, the scales into an alter, drenched in sinners' blood. 
Each Fury with her nails was tearing at her breast; they smote them with their hands, and cried so loud.

圣殿变成了魔窟，天平也变为盛满罪恶鲜血的祭台。
复仇女神用宝剑划开自己的胸口，击打着自己的心脏然后尖声喊叫。
|Sanctum turned into the Devil's pit, the scales into an alter, drenched in sinners' blood. 
Each Fury with her nails was tearing at her breast; they smote them with their hands, and cried so loud.

圣殿变成了魔窟，天平也变为盛满罪恶鲜血的祭台。
复仇女神用宝剑划开自己的胸口，击打着自己的心脏然后尖声喊叫。
|Before me things create were none, save things eternal, and eternal I endure.

在我以前未有造物，而我也将永世长存。
|Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last. (''Inferno'', Canto III)

Each one [of the three infernal Furies'] breast was rending with her nails;
They beat them with their palms, and cried so loud (''Inferno'', Canto IX)
|-
|We shall be together, in neither Heaven nor Hell, neither cursed nor redeemed. I did not die, nor yet remained alive.

我们会在一起，既不是天堂也不是地狱，既不是被诅咒也不是被拯救，我没有死，我也没有活着。
|When half way through the journey of our life, 
Through this Heaven and Hell art we led,

我走过我们人生的一半旅程。
被引导着从天堂走向地狱。
|When half way through the journey of our life, 
Through this Heaven and Hell art we led

我走过我们人生的一半旅程。
被引导着从天堂走向地狱。
|
|Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.  (''Inferno'', Canto I)
|-
|Love led us to one life. 
Love led us to one death.

爱引导我们同生。
爱引导我们同死。
|Thou wast made before I unmade. 
The anguish thou art in perchance withdraws thee from my memory. 
We shall be together, in neither Heaven nor Hell, neither cursed nor redeemed. I did not die, nor yet remained alive.

你出世的时候我还没有去世。
你所受到的痛苦，已经从我的记忆中消除。
我们会在一起，既不是天堂也不是地狱，既不是被诅咒也不是被拯救。
|We shall be together, in neither Heaven nor Hell, neither cursed nor redeemed.

我们会在一起，既不是天堂也不是地狱，既不是被诅咒也不是被拯救。
|Love led us to one life. 
Love led us to one death.

爱引导我们同生。
爱引导我们同死。
| Thyself wast made before I was unmade. (''Inferno'', Canto VI)
Love has conducted us unto one death, (''Inferno'', Canto V)
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