Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24267938-20130808174809/@comment-7153552-20130815213513

Wow. . . I thought I was the only one that wrote walls of text on the forums! I'll be honest, I skimmed that, but I didn't read all of it, Saigyou. But where you go after you die (using the royal "you", here) largely depends on what you did while alive, or how you died. We know that souls end up in the Sould Cairne when taken by Soul Gems and sometimes the Necromancers end up there because those that lead it aren't very nice. We know that if you're a werewolf (and one could assume a werebear) you end up in the Hunting Ground. We know that if you're a Nord who died honorably you go to Sovngarde. We know that the priests pray last rites in the form of commiting souls to Aetherius, so it can be construed that if each race doesn't have a particular plane then at the very least you go to whatever plane of Aedra you served - or served the most. I suppose he question is ultimately too vague to answer directly.

Keep in mind, too, that a large portion of the greater powers depend on being believed in. So if Nords stopped believing in Sovngarde (unlikely) then it would possibly cease to be. This make the secondary question one of what does each of the other races believe in beyond the basics?