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Makai

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Ruins of Vina, part of Makai, as seen in Highly Responsive to Prayers. (Purple background)
Ruins of Vina, part of Makai, as seen in Highly Responsive to Prayers. (Brown background)

Makai (魔界), the Demon World, exists in essentially an alternate dimension to Gensokyo. Not to be confused with Hell as referenced in Highly Responsive to Prayers and Phantasmagoria of Flower View, or Former Hell, from Subterranean Animism.

Geography and People

The entrance to Makai is located in a cave in the mountains near the Hakurei Shrine. Makai itself is a land with a harsh and unearthly nature that makes it difficult to survive in, but youkai and some humans live and/or train their powers here regardless. It is filled with a toxic miasma which is physically harmful, but strengthens magical spells and seals, and can also make learning magic easier for a human.

Much of Makai's terrain is a deep red color, but there are also extensive fields of crystalline forests and frozen fields. This is especially true around Pandemonium, Shinki's fortress, which seems to be constructed from a similar crystalline material.

Ruins of Vina

Only seen in Makai route stages 10~15 of Highly Responsive to Prayers. Reimu encounters Elis here on the fifteenth stage. Nothing else is known about this place.

Wonderland

During the Extra Stage of Mystic Square, the heroines enter into a kind of wonderland, presumably created by Alice Margatroid. It is implied that it exists within Makai.

Hokkai

Above Hokkai, as seen in Undefined Fantastic Object.

Not much is actually known about Hokkai. The heroine travels there in Stage 6 of Undefined Fantastic Object. The entire region appears to have been sealed, along with the monk Byakuren Hijiri. Murasa Minamitsu describes it as tucked away in "a corner of Makai".

Residents of Makai

Story

Most of the events of Highly Responsive to Prayers occurred in Makai when Reimu Hakurei discovered a portal that had opened in her shrine. Almost the entirety of Mystic Square happened in Makai, as well, and in the last two stages of Undefined Fantastic Object, the heroine travels to Hokkai via the Palanquin Ship captained by Minamitsu Murasa. It's unknown if the last two stages of Story of Eastern Wonderland take place in Makai.