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There are vaults in the city of the dead for the ashes of the poor. Criminals are mortals under the gods like anyone else, and still get ash-burials. Sentient, speaking "monsters" who die peacefully in the city, ditto. Only monsters who are killed after slaying, ..
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@TheEdVerse Hi Ed, hope you're well! Just wondering where in Waterdeep would authorities bury a) the poor and b) criminals / monsters. Are there go-to alternatives to the City of Dead for those who can't afford a funeral, or are considered not to deserve one...?
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...maiming, or trying to eat someone else get treated like animal carcasses (which are taken to the Rat Hills by the nightsoil wagons).
There's also always been a tradition of the loved ones of anyone who didn't want to be "housed in the City of the Dead," or if..
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...those loved ones don't want their dear departed to rest there (or if they don't want anyone to know a certain being is dead), of taking the body out of the city up the Amphail Road (riding or encoached as if everyone is alive), and having "a bite off the road"..
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...(picnic) at which they eat and toast the departed, and surreptitiously bury them. Sailors do this at sea: sew the body up in a shroud, drop it in a strongchest full of ale or brine to keep the air from it so no smell, then sail away on their next voyage and...
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..."give the body to Umberlee" when out of sight of Waterdeep, or later (the idea being to make sure the body doesn't wash ashore in any settled area).
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