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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@whitewolf

[northerndragon]

Time was when we buried people. The bones of the lords of my father’s house, and their families, were laid to rest in the crypt, and servants in the lichyard. The lords and kings are remembered with statues, though my father went against custom and remembered his sister with one, too. All of it is going into the earth.

It is better to burn the dead now.

un: man's greatest treasure

[reparo]

It depends on the family and the cultural choices, I think. Also the time period. Viking funerals are a lot like your Tauren people's one, for example. But nowadays, we bury them in a coffin in the ground, and set up headstones for those who are still alive to mourn at.

Some people prefer cremation to burial, and the ashes are either scattered somewhere of significance to the deceased, or put in a sort of cementary for urns, with the headstone again.

text | un:thewrench

[in_theworks]

It kinda depends on what religion you follow, where I'm from, but like, most the time it involves burying someone in a coffin. Usually, there's a little religious service, beforehand, and people come in to look at the body and 'pay their respects' or whatever.

Me, I wanna go out on a MOUNTAIN of TNT.

Launch my body into space, man.

un: absterge

[downswing]

Whom do you bury?


( Why do you all keep murdering. )

[blackscales]

The dead also walk in your home?

[blackscales]

Do you visit these headstones regularly to mourn?

[blackscales]

[ Launch into space...? ]

Is this a common rite among your people?

[ Something about the attitude makes him suspect no, but you can never tell. ]

[blackscales]

[ ...? ]

I am not currently burying anyone. If you are asking for a historical catalogue of people I have buried, I regret to say I have never attended a formal funeral.

[downswing]

Men often asks of funerals when they mean to perform.

[blackscales]

I have no intention of performing a funeral. The rites are of interest to me from a contextual standpoint -- the ancestor this village has assigned me to atone for appears to have allowed graves to be desecrated through negligence.

[downswing]

A fool. Spirits disturbed struggle to sleep.

[blackscales]

[ And Wrathion will struggle to sleep if these scratches on him continue to get worse.

Everyone has problems. ]

No doubt. I'm aware candles are commonly used here in such circumstances, based on our past experiences. It is not a practice I am familiar with.

[ So, questions. What other unfamiliar rites might there be? ]

[downswing]

Refocus. Substance before shape.

[blackscales]

[ What an entirely useless pair of sentences, Lan Wangji. ]

You don't believe research is useful?

[downswing]

Learn your dead.

[blackscales]

[ Has this man ever used more than three to four words at a time, truly. ]

You believe personalisation is important?

[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.