<< The best example I can find of someone who might enjoy a sorcerous
heroquest
is someone like Ian Stewart, author of 'Nature's Numbers', describing how
exciting and fun pure mathematics is. >>
I would suggest that a pure sorcerous heroquest allows the quester to experience pure maths in the way that Stewart described in the forward of that book, even if he normally wouldn't. Furthermore, there are living things on the sorcery plane, which one can encounter. The Saints are in there somewhere, as are elementals, but so are some rather strange entities (many of them a little like the memetic lifeforms in David Brin's 'Heaven's Reach') which are frequently hostile to we mere organic beings. Admittedly, they aren't as common as, say, spirits in the Spirit World, but they're there and a couple of them even coded themselves into the .doc file of Anaxial's Record.
Despite which, I still agree with Nick that the best thing to do with Western heroquesters is tell 'em to visit the God World and interpret it through their usual questing paradigm.
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
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