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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 6:42 am 
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The cemetery for the East Port community emerged from necessity rather than any of the urban design. Some early Merenaese burials were conducted at the site of the Church of Kharsis' Mercy and those graves are now a part of its crypts. Here, those who cared less about the ceremony or just couldn't afford it put their dead, and the Unicorn, once they joined the community, followed suit. Strangely, it has naturally emerged as one of the most ecumenical places on the island, with some small Rokugani kofun and shrines to Emma-o or Jizo tucked in between the heavier slabs of stone of the Western graves. Despite the grounds being quite spacious, spanning a gentle grassy slope of Mount Kappa, not all dead are buried here, as bodies are still quite often just wrapped in cloth and damped into the sea. For sanitary reasons dead from the Caves of the Lepers are not brought here either.

While the sarcophagi of the Unicorn usually remain humble, some of the Kharsite graves are far more elaborate, crypts of the size of small houses. Those usually belong to the prominent families that have lost their members while on the island and are well-attended to, often also guarded as grave-diggers are not an afterthought since the custom of burying people with their personal belonging and works of art has become a commonly shared heterodoxy many seamen's superstitions are related to.

Do vengeful or otherwise unappeased ghosts happen? Many believe so, and the East Port is replete with stories of various spectres claiming justice after death. Finding fresh casualties in the cemetery is not unheard of, but it may well be the result of feuds and criminal activities that mask themselves as revenge from beyond the veil. There are several people who live here, taking care of the area and earning their living from it, stonemasons, morticians, even professional wailers for hire. The extremely ecumenical priest leaving at the verge of the cemetery, Ben, is actually a Rokugani who nevertheless holds the service for funerals of any denomination, be it Kharsis, Lost Daughter, any Rokugani kami or ancestral worship or even the Vengeful Sea. When a respected Mamluk officer of Senpet origin died not that long ago, Ben read up on mummification and did that funeral too because the money from his comrades were good. The proper religious figures of the East Port give him a wide berth but he still plays a role in keeping the community together, channeling their grief and wounded consciences into the relative peace of whatever great thereafter they imagine.



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