Degrading Dead Bodies

(OOG: Not Chenjing)

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You mention aiding in the decomposition of the bodies does not leave time for proper burial rites. If we are given permission by their loved ones to decompose their bodies are we allowed to do so? Of course after the proper investigation is completed. As a Decay Druid I believe that return the bodies energy back to Arawyn will aid in allowing for other life to grow in place of where the person is lost. I am only speaking in reference to Decay Druidics for I do not have knowledge of any other methods.

Thank you for your time,

O. Nesterin

Nesterin,

I was using the same method you were and you have seen the result of my actions.

Let me make something very clear.

NO ONE is being accused here. Please stop acting like you are being targeted. I brought up the reason that this is being looked at at all.

Bodies naturally decompose. Aiding in that is not exactly necessary. If loved ones are there, ask them. But also ask the spirit. Its likely that it would agree with said loves ones in any case. I truly do not see why burying a body is so difficult an idea- we literally have people we employ to do so honorably. If there are incidents with said employed people, let me know and it shall be investigated. I also truly do not understand why this is being held as such an issue. It normally doesn't even happen to my knowledge unless asked for. This is merely to clarify that you have to ask. This is to protect YOUR wishes as well as anyone else's.

-Allyce

A guardsman was recently decayed after death with no such permission given. I was not pleased.

Don't destroy evidence again, or you will be charged with interfering with the guard in the course of their duties.

That written down, the Veneir were burned en masse because it was considered dishonorable and unsafe to leave them for the crows. Burning is an acceptable method of disposal of corpses, though it is perhaps less polite than burying them. It is not outside of the ways of the northman to burn a body on the ice, where the ground is too cold or the ice too thick to bury them.

They were not so-called enemies of Travance. They came to us with blade in hand and hate in their hearts. They were our foes. I will not leave them to be crow-meat, but their assault on Travance and the Cheveyo cost them much of their honor. Those Venier who visited travance more recently in our rally against the nulls were far less dishonorable, and notably none died by our hand.

Many on the guard, the captain and myself included, follow the Judge. Corpses will be seen to and dealt with in a manner than does not desecrate them. It would be advisable to leave this topic be for now, however.

Let it be known this day and ever that should the utility of the absence of my body outweigh the utility of its proper rites, I consent to its immediate destruction. I do not discriminate on the method, though prefer decomposition, so the vital materials that I have inherited can be passed on to nature.

By Galladel, we possess soul everlasting; why is my lifeless corpse entitled to longer on this plane than my soul inhabits it? It is simply a pointless waste of resources.

I will carry a copy of this letter on my breast for the rest of my natural life. I encourage others to do the same. Many among the Travanceans have the courtesy of searching the dead for identifying materials, and for last wishes. This is another practice that I urge my kinsmen to uphold.

Should this letter stand the tests that my body fail, it shall stand as binding testament to my will. And it shall be done.

--Mantel Warrane, Mere Implement of Brazen