Highland Burial Customs

Part of Culture of Otheia
Excerpt from “Study of the Highlanders”, by anthropologist Rean the Preservationist
Among the Highlanders of the Otheiae, each family has a crypt located to the back of their cellar. Once the body has decomposed, the family will then methodically fracture each bone save the skull, and the remains will be placed inside a stone box engraved with the person’s name. The chest is then deposited in a sanctified place in the rear of the crypt.
This form of desecration is considered a necessary evil, as while it is indeed desecration, it is far better than having one’s bones come be enslaved to the will of a mage tampering with powers he does not understand.
This is all done, according to the Highlanders, because at one point, the region was plagued by magical spirits and necromancers, who would attempt to raise the dead, and periodically form armies of living bone to battle one another and the living lords for dominance.
Category:Culture of Otheia