The Shroud-Bearers

Founded three centuries ago during the Great Silt Fever. When the dead began to rise from the riverbeds due to a lingering necrotic miasma, a group of bereaved citizens realized simple burial was insufficient. They developed the Silvering Rites to bind souls to their rest. Over decades, this civilian militia evolved into a sanctified order of memento mori, eventually constructing the House of Passing to serve as a fortress against the restless. Their most defining moment was the Great Sealing of the 14th Flood, where they successfully suppressed an army of river-ghouls at the cost of half their membership.