I endorse this change wholeheartedly.

You know what, this seems like an appropriate time to put this out there. There are a lot of people on the Valhalla side of things in UF whose presence I find difficult.

I mean... okay. The entrance requirements are super low and don't include an amazingly strong moral component, and make allowances for personal and cultural ignorance, and also for extenuating circumstances.

But even within those very loose guidelines... the Valhalla side has a bunch of real-world people in it who were shockingly bad. There are slavers who made it into Valhalla; men who took free people and made them slaves. There are torturers.

I know that the universe of UF is not a just one and that people do not always receive in death what they earned in life. (Exhibit A in this is Nanami Kiryuu.) And that a lot of this was written in the nineties. If I'm going to be super blunt and name some names, I would like to imagine that if UF were being written TODAY, a lot of Kris Overstreet's Dunning School Confederate-lionizing bullshit would not pass editorial muster. (I like Kris. I do. But man, reading his author-avatar identify himself as a citizen of the Confederate States of America has always made me think "the Wayward Son should have blown him out of space." And that's before we even get to him splashing the Stars and Bars all over everything.)

But even with those provisos... some of this old stuff relating to the afterlife and who got into heaven and who did not can really grate. And I am very glad that in this instance you have gone back and changed at least one of those things.

-Merc
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