@TheEdVerse How does the whole process of taking care of a dead body work in Waterdeep (say, someone killed on the streets)? Contact local temple?

Oct 12, 2018 · 12:18 PM UTC

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Depends. (If finder/perpetrator wants the death hidden or not.) If no one's trying to hide the body, the Watch is always called, and makes a report (cause, identity, precise location found, conjectures/witnesses). Then to temple for autopsy unless magic suspected (to Castle...
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...personal effects, check on reassignments of deeds/co-ownership shares, debts, etc. (etc = what we would call probating a will). Most Waterdhavians will be suspicious if they know someone died, but don't see/hear about the Watch being called. (Hmm. This should've been in W:DH.)
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Sir, you are a gentleman! Thanks again!
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...for Watchful Order-assisted Watch autopsy). Then family/kin (failing that, business partners, fellow guild members) contacted for burial wishes (temple burial/cremation/critter nibbling to derive bare bones for a bone box), Palace courtiers step in to settle rents, disperse...
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For those of us playing at home: this was a late addition. nitter.poast.org/TheEdVerse/status/1291…
Ed Greenwood@TheEdVerse
5 Aug 2020
Depends on the time (Realmsdate) when the death occurs: the Plinth in most cases, if at a time when it is flourishing. Failing that, usually the closest temple, unless a priest present when the Watch is examining makes an offer (of their in-city temple) to the Watch. #Realmslore
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