Cemeteries and Burial Customs

Cemeteries are places where corpses are buried. They can be municipal, collective (bourgeois or town gentry), or family-only. Municipal is bargain-basement burial and very much not preferred. Collectives typically contract with a single stoneworker. Sometimes cemeteries are haunted; there may not be proper ghosts, but “things move themselves....there are graves where the dirt is always disturbed no matter how many times you rake it smooth.”

Most sects have very strict customs regarding how the dead should be handled and interred, and people will take great offense if these rites are not followed correctly. In Amalo, most people are buried initially in cemeteries, and then their bones are moved to crypts after the bodies have decayed.

In areas where ghouls are common, a headstone with the person's name, and a well-tended gravesite, will prevent the dead body from rising as a ghoul.

Murderers and victims must be buried as far apart as possible so they will not haunt the cemetery.