• Visits and Funerals

  Families may visit during daylight without appointment, bringing food, tools, or small tokens their dead once cherished. A priest records any change to a tomb’s offerings and checks that no stone figure has been moved. At dusk, visitors leave by the marked memorial roads while the guards make their rounds. Funeral processions are quiet and orderly, with the deceased’s stone likeness placed in a chamber shaped after their home or former vocation.

• Tombs and Sealed Chambers

  The upper tiers hold family chambers and small tomb-houses shaped like workshops, kitchens, and guard posts. The middle tiers contain memorial roads lined with carved names and niches for ancestors whose families have dwindled. Deeper down, heavy doors seal the imperial crypts. Their locks are old, their hinges are maintained, and no one enters without the wardens’ permission and a written record of the visit.

• Guard Rounds

  Warrior priests of Gorm Gulthyn guard every entrance and patrol in pairs, carrying lanterns, shields, and weapons suited to narrow passages. They test sealed doors, watch for disturbed dust, and keep a ledger of every patrol. If undead are found, the priests first try to contain them away from the family tombs. Visitors who interfere with a patrol or tamper with a tomb are detained for questioning, whatever their standing in Moradinar.

• The Rewritten Walls

  The oldest inscriptions have been chiseled away and rewritten so often that some wall panels show several eras of lettering beneath the newest names. The priests preserve rubbings of the visible text, but they do not permit visitors to make their own copies. Scholars may request access to the records by explaining their purpose and agreeing not to disturb the walls.

• Patient, exacting, and respectful of grief. He dislikes speculation about the dead, but welcomes honest questions and treats every family with equal care.

• A soft-spoken dwarf with a rounded face and a mason’s hands. He oversees repairs, assigns tomb spaces, and insists every alteration be entered in the records. His byname comes from the chisels used in his family’s old trade.

• A patient, clear-eyed priest who knows the memorial roads by heart. She leads funeral rites and often helps families decide how to shape a new tomb-house. Her name is an inherited family name associated with stonecutters.

• A watchful, spare-spoken warrior priest whose shield bears the marks of many patrols. He is fair in judgment but will not bend the rules for nobles or relatives. His name is an old term in his family for a gate guard.

No images yet.