The Great Necropolis of Weinat By Imperator-Zor Watch

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Built in the desert stands the Great Necropolis of Weinat. Often the term has been used simply to describe a large graveyard, but the Great Necropolis is a true City of the Dead and one which is greater than any of the Kingdom of Weinat's cities of the living combined. The religion of the Weinat stipulates the importance of storing the dead away from the river valleys where the populace live and keeping them safe in the desert in the general area of a holy site. It's tombs are for the most part huge buildings of brick, sandstone and stucco eight stories tall plus basements arrange in blocks of twelve (four groups of three) along neat straight streets, though there are a few great tombs that take up whole blocks for the families of the wealthy with gardens of statues. Even among the regular tombs there are distinctions of class have interiors adorned in marble or fine tile-work, others are plane and unadorned. In these the dead are stored in racks for the poor and in galleries for the modestly wealthy. There are hundreds of thousands of tombs, each containing dozens to hundreds of the dead. More are constantly being built to accommodate the steady stream of new dead who are brought in every day.



Some on the Weinatians have grave goods (though this has fallen out of favor to some degree in recent centuries) and others are entombed in fine clothes and jewelry. As such there is the grave guard, the city's only living residents. The grave guard is a force of living warriors who patrol the streets of the Great Necropolis against robbers and a year or two service is seen as a penance for soldier's sins, though there are a few full timers as well. They generally take their job quite seriously, but they are comparitively few in number when compared with the endless streets and avenues of the dead.

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