Sailing to Hell
In your world, how do the living visit the Underworld? When Theseus and Pirithous traveled to Hades to kidnap Persephone, they did not take a portal. They took a ship. Sailed right up to the front gates. Olympus itself was often a given name to several mountains, each believed to be the metaphorical (or even literal) home of the gods. In the Lord of the Rings, do the Elves use a Plane Shift spell to reach the Gray Havens? No, they sailed there on a ship. Sometimes, the metaphysical location of a plane doesn't need to be metaphysical. Sometimes, it feels more real if it's just there . In the last world that I wrote, there were 3 ways to get to the Underworld. First was dying. Second was Plane Shift or Gate. Third was taking a physical ship to where the sun sets, riding head first into the horrific whirlpool as the sun was swallowed by the sea, and following it on its 12-hour journey through the Underworld. In the Forgotten Realms, the Abyss was physically positioned below the