Cremation?

[Salt Merchant]

It is clear that burial of their dead is not a common practise among commoners, at least in Allanak. But would some families pay to have a departed family member cremated and keep the ashes?

If so, could some means of building a pyre and collecting the ashes be provided please?

I think it would be an awesome thing to see an urn kept on display in a Kadian mansion for example, and be told that it holds the ashes of some well-remembered Kadian of years past. Perhaps this could be done even for templars.

[Pale Horse]

There IS a place in Allanak where cremation or burning of a body can be provided for a funeral.  Seen it happen (actually happened to a previous character of yours, if I remember right).  I kinda wouldn't see commoners using it, but I'd be very pleased to see it put to more use.  Might actually make the practice of cremation more common.

[Marauder Moe]

Just get a pot and collect virtual ashes.

[Salt Merchant]

Just get a pot and collect virtual ashes.

I don't mean to be snarky, but shouldn't it be obvious that if I wanted virtual ashes (and a virtual funeral pyre to go with them), I wouldn't have asked to have it codedly implemented?

[Marauder Moe]

*shrug*

You didn't actually say the word "coded" anywhere in your original post.

I think you can have a coded funeral pyre, actually.  Just no coded ashes object.

EDIT: What I mean to say is that there's nothing stopping you from cremating an important person, displaying an urn in the mansion, and telling people it's full of their ashes.

[valeria]

You could put a charred meat object in it    And some bones.

[Rhyden]

I think cremation makes a lot of sense in Zalanthas.

• Fire is less expensive than water
• It's less effort than carrying a corpse to Meleth's circle or outside the gates
• No evidence

As for keeping the remains in an urn? Probably more likely for middle-upper class Zalanthans. What commoner would want to keep a jug of ashes? Other than a baby-eating sorcerer, of course.

[SMuz]

I've seen a commoner get cremated, with some staff assistance. I cried when I saw some hidden stuff on the body get cremated too.

Heh, a small difference from Zalanthas to RL... why would they want to keep ashes? If I lived in a world with evil magicks, I do not want to keep the body of my best friend lying around anywhere, or even the charred remains. Burning it would be the most noble thing I could do, so that it would keep them from becoming undead. Scattering their ashes to the wind means that no magick could ever harm them again. There's no spiritualism here anyway, no life after death. Just.. unlife.

[Zoltan]

I saw a commoner get cremated, too. It was cool.

Ah, Sergeant Axel... 

[brytta.leofa]

Cremation, by the way, is the most respectful sort of treatment a person can get in Allanak.

[Majikal]

Cremation, by the way, is the most respectful sort of treatment a person can get in Allanak.

Cause it needs to be repeated.

[Potaje]

The number one reason I think cremation would be done, at least at a city level, is disease. I believe the cities come with their a ready made fire up the bodies location for this purpose.