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[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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[blackscales]

For everyone?

[ Is this common regardless of status? Or just for people like, say, Varian Wrynn. ]

[chosenbylight]

Well. Not everyone no. There are cemeteries, in Stormwind and the towns beyond. Families usually at least mark the graves with a stone, if they cannot afford more. The noble families usually have more ornamentation -- decorative statues or plants.

I suppose I just meant to point out that there are times when we are not able to bury our dead. Those who are lost at sea. Those who have died in battle. And in those instances, we do what we can to honor their memory, through whatever methods or means we can, whether it be erecting a statue, planting a tree, or something as simple as setting out flowers.

[There is a part of Anduin that wishes Lion's Rest were somehow less... Public. But he understands that it was constructed as much for Stormwind and its people as for Varian Wrynn, and he will have to find solace where he can.]

[blackscales]

And do they help? These memorials.

[chosenbylight]

They help to give those who need it something to care for, when nothing else remains.

[blackscales]

[ Sometimes you get an answer and wish you hadn't. This is one of those situations.

He doesn't really know what to say in response. The flash of bitterness he briefly feels seems... inappropriate.

Neltharion's jaw, he suspects, does not count as a memorial. ]

I see.

[ Well that seems a completely inadequate reply. He tries again -- ]

Thank you for explaining.

[ This is awkward. ]

[chosenbylight]

[No, unfortunately it is not.

Anduin is very aware of how awkward he feels himself to discuss these things himself. He imagines it must feel equally awkward for Wrathion as well.

There is more that he could share but he thinks for both their sakes he should perhaps leave it there.]

Yes, of course. Anything that might be of use to you in solving this curse of yours.

[He hopes that was useful, anyway….]