User blog comment:BrooklynGuido42/Where do non nords go after death?/@comment-3523404-20120710095450

Sovngarde is a realm within Aetherius, the place of the Aedra where all magic originates. Soul Cairn also exists within that plane. It is said that the "planets of the Aedra" also exist within Mundus, just like Nirn, so it's possible these places are all reachable when one is still alive. Regardless, it seems to me that these locations are belief system territories in what is other similar to the notion of the astral plane, a place of pure thought that is manipulated by intention. If this is true, no person actually goes to Sovngarde; they go to this astral place. And together with other energy forms create their "paradise" or "void" depending on where they BELIEVE they SHOULD go.