User blog comment:Icemoomoo/What happens to the Dragonboren after he is dead?/@comment-24.121.47.202-20111207005408/@comment-2041582-20111207194424

Things in the Elder Scrolls universe don't work the same as they would in a western religion (Earth of course). Oblivion is hard to be described as being Hell because there are so many different realms it's impossible to relate them to how we think of as being Hell. And isn't Sovngarde just a Nordic thing, Ryusenka? It's based off the norse Valhalla anyway, not exactly the Judeo-Christian version of Heaven. But either way, not enough information is given on Sovngarde to truly determine what it really is. All we know is that it's the afterlife for Ancient Nordic heroes.