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There are no cemeteries within the core area of Cetak—at least, not within the prime world.
When a person dies in Cetak, the body is brought to Morticians' Row down in the Under-Square. One of the mortician houses will prepare the body for a fee, and then, once the Ceremony of Severance has been completed, bring the body in procession through the Sunderground and out into the Shadowfell. Emerging from the slopes of Cap-Ill, the procession wends its way back westward to the mausoleums.
The mausoleums of Cetak are one of the great wonders of the land, shocking in appearance to most outsiders. They are vast monolithic towers reaching high into the heavens, far taller than any trees, higher than the surrounding hills. The towers appear to be formed of stone and glass and metal, but some wizardry must have been involved to raise structures so high. And each of these towers is a mausoleum housing thousands upon thousands of the Dead.
The morticians bring the body to the Chapel, where the Ceremony of Internment is performed, and then leave it there and make their way back through the Sunderground to the prime world. It is said that when the moon rises over the eastern mountains and lights the way westward, the body makes its way down into the necropolis and finds its place within one of the mausoleums, there to wait—no one knows for what, or how long. Some speak of the Dead moving about the necropolis, others that they merely stand and wait silently within the mausoleums.
It is known that if a body should be left untended for too long, the body will rise on its own and begin seeking to make its way to the mausoleums. A body denied the proper Ceremonies of Severance and Internment will become restless and angry with the living, and filled also with a craving to return to the life it can no longer hold, and thus do ghouls arise. Therefore, although the morticians perform their services for fees, the mortician houses will also be paid by the city to tend to bodies unclaimed by any family. Magics are used to ensure that a body has not been merely abandoned by family seeking to avoid the fees, and any family caught trying to do so is fined and punished heavily.
When a person dies in Cetak, the body is brought to Morticians' Row down in the Under-Square. One of the mortician houses will prepare the body for a fee, and then, once the Ceremony of Severance has been completed, bring the body in procession through the Sunderground and out into the Shadowfell. Emerging from the slopes of Cap-Ill, the procession wends its way back westward to the mausoleums.
The mausoleums of Cetak are one of the great wonders of the land, shocking in appearance to most outsiders. They are vast monolithic towers reaching high into the heavens, far taller than any trees, higher than the surrounding hills. The towers appear to be formed of stone and glass and metal, but some wizardry must have been involved to raise structures so high. And each of these towers is a mausoleum housing thousands upon thousands of the Dead.
The morticians bring the body to the Chapel, where the Ceremony of Internment is performed, and then leave it there and make their way back through the Sunderground to the prime world. It is said that when the moon rises over the eastern mountains and lights the way westward, the body makes its way down into the necropolis and finds its place within one of the mausoleums, there to wait—no one knows for what, or how long. Some speak of the Dead moving about the necropolis, others that they merely stand and wait silently within the mausoleums.
It is known that if a body should be left untended for too long, the body will rise on its own and begin seeking to make its way to the mausoleums. A body denied the proper Ceremonies of Severance and Internment will become restless and angry with the living, and filled also with a craving to return to the life it can no longer hold, and thus do ghouls arise. Therefore, although the morticians perform their services for fees, the mortician houses will also be paid by the city to tend to bodies unclaimed by any family. Magics are used to ensure that a body has not been merely abandoned by family seeking to avoid the fees, and any family caught trying to do so is fined and punished heavily.
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