Talk:Scales of Ma’at/@comment-5782071-20190616040904

I'm... not rly sure how I feel about making the Duat an actual place... if I remember, that's the Egyptian afterlife or underworld, right? That's where the souls of the dead go, so

1. We've seen whatever plane of existence dead people are in when Claudia revived Steve, assuming that wasn't just a personal limbo space created by the metronome when it was used, and whatever Steve felt or saw while dead was never mentioned.

2. If it's where the dead go in mythology but, as you propose, a place living people can still access, why would it be desribed as the afterlife instead of just... another place? Or why wouldn't there be tales of normal people coming and going? I had some other point with this but I've forgotten.

Basically I'm against the idea of making any specific afterlife or equivalent location real in our lore, and I'm already a tad iffy on Aff's old portal to Hell created by combining all the Dante's Inferno artifacts (mostly for the fact they can do that in the first place, but also for making Hell a place apparently).