Alex Ferguson answers me
> > Heroes have many ways to enter Hell. Few of them
> > involve literally dying (though I concede that any descent into Hell can be
> > interpreted figuratively as death).
>
> The ones involving being thrown there by your enemies to suffer endless
> torment seem the least choice, though. Do you really suppose this is
> more akin to entering Hell on a HQ than it is to "being killed"? If
> Sheng "wasn't really dead" in his Lunar Hell, it neither seemed to make
> it any easier for him to return, nor for anyone to free him from it.
> I doubt it made his stay any more enjoyable, either...
I don't remember how Arkat got there; it amuses me to presume he'd been questing (given he is the foremost quester of the Age).
Assuming Sheng wasn't killed, it was intentional, to make his stay less enjoyable.
> > you can't leave by the same path you entered when you're dead.
>
> Can you leave by the same path you entered (assuming it's the Western
> Gate, at least) even if you haven't been "killed"). (Serious question,
> not rhetorical.) Certainly that's not that the Lightbringers did.
I stated this in careful terms originally. *Yelm* had to leave by a different gate. (Thus leaving unanswered your question.)
David Dunham <mailto:dunham_at_pensee.com> Glorantha/RQ page: <http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html> Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
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