Noire Terre

Noire Terre (lit. Black Land; のいれ 手零/Noire Terei) is the land within hell where sinful souls are sent as punishment.

Description
Norie Terre is its own isolated section of hell, separate from that of the demons. Not the Soul Society nor Lucifer has jurisdiction over this area. The Land of Noire Terre never changes and is perpetually mute in colour. All matter, just as it is in the Soul Society, is composed of reishi. There is no wind, no clouds, no weather, no animals and although there are trees and grasses (though no flower) nothing can grow. If a tree is cut or grass upturned, then at the point of destruction the separated matter dissolves into reishi particles and reforms back into it's natural form. The colours within Noire Terre are all in dark tones: dark green leaves and grasses, dark wood, pale sky etc. The only beings that exist within Noire Terre are the souls of sinners sealed within decayed corpus and are now called Malâme (lit. Evil Soul; 魔ラ雨/Malaame). The entirety of Noire Terre is devoid of stimulus for the purpose of punishing the sinners by denying them the luxury of 'living', which they had previously abused while on Earth, and forcing them to merely exist.

Trivia

 * The kanji for Terre is comprised of the characters for Hand(手) and Zero(零)
 * All names relating to Noire Terre are French in origin