The Crypt of Ancestors

It was there that I beheld the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Soft curls kissed her pale forehead, while her long, dark lashes seemed to flutter in the harsh light of our candles. Oh! How my heart breaks when I think of those delicate, desiccated lips speaking fetid Words of Power. How can I not weep, knowing that her life was so brutally ended - her Power bled from her veins - by that detestable scavenger and His minions?

— Albard Belyea, scholar at the Versité of Cazhilac, 43SGC

In 42SGC, cartographers were recording the lay of the land around lake Aelis when they stumbled upon the entrance to what they assumed to be an abandoned silver mine. Inside, the team discovered a subterranean crypt (subsequently named 'the Crypt of Ancestors') containing the mummified and skeletal remains of 436 individuals.
Archaeologists and scholars would later conclude that the area had once been part of a town called Lakerq, and that the crypt had been excavated benath the holy thédrale. Examinations of the bodies have revealed them to be victims of the the Great Confiscation. According to historical records held in the royal archives in the Lormontai capital of Cazilhac, when the traumatised townsfolk of Lakerq abandoned their homes after that horrific event, they had burned the entire settlement to the ground.

Although they had been victims of horrific brutality, their skin showed little sign of it. The clothes that they wore were not simply clean: they were immaculate. Their bodies had been positioned carefully; their eyes were closed, as if in sleep. No single individual could have achieved this. It would have taken an entire community to prepare these individuals for their entombment. No. No, I dare to believe that this is the work of several communities, united in horror and grief, for their numbers are simply stagering.

— Tristan Mesny, scholar at the Versité of Onnes, 58SGC

Type

Underground / Subterranean

by Brinsmead

The Crypt of Ancestors is currently the only site of pilgrimage in Lormont not connected to the traditional faith in the Guiding Stars.
Despite the thousands of Saeric people estimated to have been murdered by the Raven for their Power, the Ancestors are currently the only bodies known to have survived the events and aftermath of the Great Confiscation. Since their discovery, all requests to the Lormontai Rois to study the Ancestors have been denied.