Mortuary

the headquarters of the dustmen. A basher won’t get far without noticing the hordes of undead roaming the Mortuary. Free-willed undead such as wights, wraiths, and more powerful specimens usually avoid public areas. Lesser undead lie skeletons and zombies serve the faction as laborers. Blame them for the antiseptic smell of the place - seems the Dead like things surprisingly clean. Yet no amount of snubbing can remove the dusty smell age has lent the Mortuary, nor its underlying odor of decay.

Purpose / Function

The Mortuary holds quite a few portals an important feature, since the Dustmen prepare corpses (through mummification, embalming, etc.) and dispatch them to cemeteries on other planes or send them to the Elemental Plane of Fire for cremation. Without the Dead, there’d be no room for the living in Sigi! Bashers approaching the Mortuary for a funeral first spy an open-air monument or public memorial. For a fee, the Dustmen’ll add the names of lost cutters to this Roll of the Dead. Folks have been filling the memorial with tiny carved names for centuries

Architecture

The Mortuary sits between Blackshade Lane and Ragpickers Square in a dismal part of the Hive. The whole area immediately around it feels somber and shadowy, perfect for the colorless Dustmen.The foreboding structure resembles a low, menacing dome, with cluster of windowless vaults jumbled around it. Spiky black buttresses radiate from its center, giving it a insectoid like design. Inside its walls are black flagstones, a memorial hall where bodies of notables lie in state,and a vast network of catacombs holding countless portals.

Type

Graveyard

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