Peter is correct, of course, and I only have the 1st edition. I suspect the fourth Hell is still the worst, though. The Fourth Hell is one of the four Hells of Dara Happan myth, and is the place of punishment and monsters, while the fifth hell seems to be where the things from outside Dara Happan myth comes from - at least it is the source of the dijijelm.
> The Lunars probably
>include foreign hells (like the Wonderplace, the Halls of the Silence etc)
>as well as the Pits of Chaos within the Catchall of the Fifth Hell.
>
Yes, I think 'the Fifth Hell' is a Dara Happan term for 'bits of Hell that we don't know anything about because they aren't part of our myths'.
I still favour the theory that the Lunars believe in 7 Hells. It is poetic, would enable me to construct an interesting outline of the Lunar Book of the Dead where each of the 7 mothers is guide through a particular Hell, and it makes sense that the Lunars might have expanded things a bit from the Dara Happan scheme.
I think at least one of the 7 is a foreign Hell (formerly part of the 5th Hell) that they have mythically explored and partially colonised, the Pentan Hell. It is now a place where horrible monsters that serve the Lunar cause live.
I am still undecided about what to do about the Lunar 'secret' Hell that Sheng is stuck in.
Cheers
David
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