Circle of Vainglory
The Circle of Vainglory is the fifth Circle of Seduction is the one that represents Vainglory, a mesmerising woodland paradise that takes the form of a maze of pathways thick with scented flowers and thorns. The gentle, fragrant breeze, fills one with a sense of nostalgia, reminded the traveller of past glories, and whispers constantly reminding them of their most well-earned victories. The most powerful of these memories is those of the four circles they already surpassed and the temptations they ignored. Every step a traveller takes with a heart filled with pride at these memories leads them further astray from their path to the next circle. The only way to escape the circle is to think solely of their defeats, their humility and how irrelevant they are. Should they succeed the maze itself will writhe and straighten out leading to the next circle.[1a]
There are mirrored pools that reflect a shinning ideal of what they wish to become. Some tortured figures stare at their own reflections, unable to stop staring at it and rendered immobile by the undergrowth and the Thorn-Children that have bored into their flesh.[1a]
Sources
- 1: Battletome: Hedonites of Slaanesh (2019)
- 1a: Fiendish Paradises, pg. 12-13
