Well oblivion isn't about hell. Oblivion is a state of removal from the world, so it's like a "death", which is why it's confused with being a hell.
Chaos is the hell-like realm that most people also sometimes confuse with Oblivion. Oblivion is confused as being a realm because things are described as being sent "into oblivion" as though it were a place, but it's really a state of being.
In warhammer Chaos is known as "the warp", and it is here that the decadent energies of the Eldar built up to eventually spawn Slaanesh, who immediately killed the Eldar whose minds were responsible for his creation (talk about biting the hand that feeds you). [/factoid]
A good example of oblivion would be if you were to send an email to someone who had blocked your address - the email itself would be said to have passed "into oblivion" as it will forever remain in an unread state until the universe collapses, at which point it will not have existed. In this regard oblivion is considered a sort of condemnation.
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