Linden Memorial

The Linedn Memorial is a Subcontinent located in North Corsica. SLGI team gave it the transitory name **B061**.

## History

The Linden Memorial was built between 2009 and 2011. It was built for those who died. Since 2011, the Linden officials decided no longer to add people to the memorial. However, the memorial remained opened for visitors.

As for 2020, the memorial is being rebuilt.

### Avatars don't die

Avatars don't die, they are teleported back home. Avatar owners do die, but in most cases it is impossible to find out this. There are cases when someone's account was continued by friends, husband or wife, by children or parents, who did not want to see the account terminated.

Suppose you die tomorrow. Your account will remain active, but not used. If you have a payment to Linden Lab (premium membership, land tier), it will be active for a while, until they will put your account on hold for not paying. If you have a payment to a land baron (land rent, for example), you will lose your rented land or house, but your account will remain active. Finally, if you are a *homeless avatar*, your account will remain active but unused.

What did the Lindens considered as *dead avatars*? Those are terminated accounts. Well, it only means that the account owner (or somebody with access) decided to terminate the account. That can really kill an avatar.

## Structure

The memorial is placed on 12 sims and has a rectangular shape.

## Geography

Linden Memorial is composed of a central sim, surrounded by a low-altitude plain crossed by many rivers.

### Central sim

The central sim, *Linden Memorial Park*, is the place where exploration should start. In the center, there is an eternal candle burning for dead avatars. The candle is placed on an altar surrounded by columns, in the center of an island. If one tries to teleport there, will be sent to an entry place, where it is written on marble: *Linden Memorial Park - dedicated to the residents of Second Life this twenty-second day April, two thousand and nine*.

The island holding the eternal candle is surrounded by low-altitude water. Water level is only 5 m. One can see huge waterfalls surrounding the island and water flowing in. However, water level is never growing. One can find a lot of rivers flowing within the subcontinent. They all come from the ocean and flow towards the central sim. This automatically implies that all rivers are salt and that salt accumulates in the central sim. What could be more profound for a memorial that a salt river of tears? It looks like the Linden Memorial has its own salt rivers of tears. The waterfalls are amazing, some of them look natural and some look artificial, with bridges allowing avatars to walk on halfway.

There is a bridge connecting central sim with Varna sim, to the North, while in East, there is a place where one can admire the landscape.

### Monuments & cemeteries

**Memorial Gardens** are located in Varna sim, they form a crucifix-like structure on the map. They host flowers with names on. Each flower is dedicated to an avatar who passed away some time ago. There are five gardens, each one further divided into four areas and a central parcel.

There are a few other monuments in Varna. A black marble plate is laid *in memory of friends who have passed Pandora's box prison*. Another monument, built on an island, is dedicated for Lolly Euler, *who brought her real life passion for art into Second Life for all to enjoy*.
A third monument is *Mike's Stone*. If clicked, the stone will give a notecard with a poem. A fourth monument is dedicated to Kandy Lubitsch. A fifth one is dedicated to Dare Drey Dinzel. There is no way to know if these names are of real avatars or even if they are of real people.

Inside *San Michelle* sim there is a monument guarded by an unicorn. The same sim hosts the cross of Kris Mounier. The *Candle Beach* is a place where one can drop candles on water for friends. There is a huge groundwork behind the beach, which probably is the tomb of a dinosaur or of a leviathan. The Pow-Mia monument and Heitor Luminous Memorial also lie in San Michelle.

Inside *Inglewood* sim, one will find a small forest. There are many memorial stones and monuments in the area, including the memorial of BlueGyn Yifu, tomb of Daniel Raymond Cabb and the tomb of Denise Williams. Many other tombs and monuments are in the forest. A tree is built in remember of those died in an earthquake in Haiti. Also, Michelle J Pillers has a monument in the same sim.

*Canongate* and *Pinechapel* sims host a large lake. There are swans floating on the lake. A network of roads encircles the lake. There are benches from place to place. Trees grow around the place. It is a quiet area where one can relax. Pinechapel hosts a monument on an island.

Four sims are almost completely lacking any features. They are *Derran Moor*, *Highgate*, *Monument* and *Winterspire*. There is no monument available there.

*Toowong* sim is almost entirely covered with trees and hills. There are many monuments in the area, which are sometimes tricky to find. There is one monument of Kendra Bancroft (funny, fierce, with a sense of wonder to the last). Another monument is dedicated *from time to eternity*. This sim hosts the highest peak (41 m high).

*Roockwood* sim is covered with forest and small hills. This sim hosts many buildings, including an unnamed mausoleum and a lot of ruins. *Hyper Mole's memorial garden* is located in the South-West of the sim and hosts a beautiful lake.

### Geographic Features

Almost all land is flat. There are seven rivers flowing towards the central sim (if we consider the waterways to South, otherwise there are only four). There are five large islands and seven small islands, plus the island in the central sim. Most land is flat, except for small hills located in East sims. There are two isolated lakes.

## Land status & access

All land is Protected Land. The memorial has a special status, as almost all land does not allow scripts to run.

The memorial has its own network of paths, connecting all islands. There are many bridges passing over the rivers, sometimes over waterfalls and giving access to all sims. However, one can directly walk over grass.

No transport company reaches the memorial. The SLGI Fleet has a dedicated ship that comes very close to the memorial, but does not actually reach it. The memorial can be reached by sailing. However, since scripts are disabled, it is questionable if one can actually sail to the shores of the memorial at all.

## See Also

* List Of Subcontinents
* Second Life Geography
* Corsica