Pit of Judgement

The Pit of Judgment is featured in The Sims Medieval. The Pit of Judgement is the location where Sims are executed by request of the respective Monarch. The Pit of Judgement is next to the stocks. Heroic Sims can purposely jump into the pit to do battle with the horrid monster within. Most Sims will not survive this, but they've got a higher chance if they're Bloodthirsty (fatal flaw). Sims occasionaly have the responsibility to feed the monster. After the monster has killed off a Sim, it will throw the corpse out of the pit. If during a quest a hero sims important to this quest dies, all quest progress is lost. You don't get your QP back. Some quests such as 'Bric-a-Brac Day' allow the hero Sim to jump into the pit without a risk of death.

The term "Pit of Judgement" could be likend to medieval justice trials as the ordeal wich had various forms (i.e. being thrown into water and if you float you are guilty) in wich it is believed that yhe divine judges humans so it is possible that sims believe that the watcher "judges" the sim and decides if the sim will be killed by the beast or not.

Related Achievements

 * Feast for the Beast
 * Inedible
 * Leap of Faith

Possible Spoilers The Doomsword Hilt and Doomsword Blade, which are required to forge the Doomsword by a Level 10 Blacksmith, can be gained through random events when a Hero Jumps into the Pit.