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Tartaros was written first, back when no fortress set itself aside, and we had a fuzzy understanding of how fortresses worked...The Pit was written at the same time as Chamber of Angels, which sets itself aside.  If The Pit was supposed to set itself aside, it would have been written that way.

This history is actually a good logical reason why it makes sense to make an exception for Tartaros, but not the Pit.  And if everyone wants to keep things the way they are, then I understand the reasoning.

But do you also see my point though that a new player would not know that history.  They would see two cards that are both evil fortresses and containing similar wording in their SA.  Imagine they were told that "return to territory" on one card meant that ECs went from set aside to territory, but on the other card "return to territory" meant ECs went from not lining  up with other ECs to lining up with other ECs.  Do you not see that this would be confusing to them?  Is there any harm in making these two cards line up better so that people won't be confused?

It doesn't seem all that confusing to me, since most people understand the difference between having a card in their Fortress and not in their Fortress.