The Smerta

The clerics of The Smerta venture from town to town, unarmed, diplomatically offering instruction on burial rituals and burial services. These priests of deaths wear white, gold and gray robes preach nothing but peace, in life and death, but they are seen by others as bad omens. Whether they mean it or not, the clerics of the Smerta always seem to have death following in their wake. They see themselves as death clerics, administering over the grim transition for their God, Myrtu, who speaks to them in their dreams.
               The Smerta technically refers to a council of 12 specters, ghosts of the first living mortals Myrtu contacted when he arrived at this world. They rule over this order eternally.