un: Black Prince; text

[blackscales]

What funerary rites are you familiar with?

The Kaldorei cleanse a body, perform a final viewing where there is singing then take it to a resting place and grow flowers around it. Goblins have extravagant funerals with mourners and ornate coffins which they are buried or entombed in along with all their accumulated wealth. In Kul Tiras burials at sea are common, while the Tauren peoples burn their dead on funeral pyres so their spirits may return to the Earth mother.

Here, burials appear to be common I have gathered.

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[downswing]

The dead are no more fickle in courtship than the living.

[blackscales]

[ A more complete sentence, but still entirely opaque to Wrathion.

This feels like a conversation with a Lorewalker who talks in catchphrases. ]

I find most living beings entirely fickle.

[downswing]

Wrathion.

( 'You fool.' )

The dead wish to be known.

[blackscales]

[ Is this not suggesting what he said before?

Some manner of personalisation?

Why does it feel like somehow everything he says is being corrected?

This is entirely frustrating, and Wrathion hates being frustrated. ]

Is that not what personalising some aspect of this would do?

[downswing]

Perhaps. Personalisation adjusts the rite.

Knowing is for the heart.

An exorcist, a pacifist of the dead — is their last friend.

[blackscales]

A pity I am not an exorcist.

[ With zero feeling. ]

[downswing]

You intend burials. Lend thought and care.

[blackscales]

Doubt me if you must, but that was the intention of this discussion.

[downswing]

Then, learn your ghosts.

Names. Passions. Professions. Pasts.

[blackscales]

[ This conversation could have been half the length if he had simply said this earlier. For someone who seems to dislike speaking so much, he made this far more effort than was necessary. ]

I will take this under advisement.

[ And make a note never to ask Lan Wangji to explain anything ever again. ]

[downswing]

The dead will thank.