Death, Funerals, and Estates

Death in Elyndorath is not the disappearance of a person from the world. A body remains subject to place, climate, treatment, custom, and time. Families and communities grieve, remember, bury, burn, preserve, mourn, inherit, dispute, and commemorate according to their own laws and traditions. Possessions, debts, obligations, dependents, titles, and property may outlive the dead and pass into the hands of others through custom, law, faith, force, or inheritance. The state of a body and the state of a soul are not the same question, and cultures may understand the fate of the dead in different ways. Where return from death is possible, it does not erase what happened while the person was gone: grief occurred, choices were made, property may have changed hands, and history still bears the marks of the death.