"Nothing massively helpful either, I'm afraid. I had a conversation with Loki recently, who seemed quite certain this wasn't a 'real' hell, and he's hardly the first person I've heard say as much."

He shrugs, and sighs again. "But I'm not sure it makes much difference if we can't get free of it either way. Our gracious host also manages to make things appropriately hellish, often enough to make it difficult to argue it's not some sort of hell."