"Nobody who's not dead has ever showed up here before," says the guide. "I have no idea what kind of difference it makes. If it doesn't, though, judges can sight you - read your whole history from your perspective at a glance - and torturers can get control on you, which means get your body on magic puppet strings, basically. And that's just the magic stuff. If you walk around Downside, nothing's to stop somebody from walking up and taking your head off with an axe."