Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-95.94.124.138-20130922100323/@comment-17114085-20141009175659

You don't choose to go to the Hunting Grounds. If you are a were-creature or a worshiper of Hircine your soul belongs to him, and he claims it. Which is why Kodlak wanted to cure his Lycanthrope, he wanted to go to Sovngarde, not the Hunting Grounds.