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<blockquote data-quote="Redwizard007" data-source="post: 8452891" data-attributes="member: 7024098"><p>Top 3? Nah. Just the top 1. Funeral customs.</p><p></p><p>Each major religion, ethnic group and social class has different ways to treat their dead, and there is a number of taboos and traditions that overlap and/or contradict one another. Each racial/cultural origin story has an elemental tie in, such as the 1st Dwarves being cut from stone or the Orcs having weakness burned from their bodies, that influences treatment of the dead.</p><p></p><p>Dwarves wish to be returned to the stone, ideally a stone sarcophagus deep underground but poorer dwarves may have to settle for cremation and having their ashes set in a niche cut into paupers' tunnels. Surface dwelling Dwarves might build stone mausoleums with the poor digging a rocky grave or a small cairn of piled stones. Gods forbid a dwarf corpse be left in the open where the winds can batter the soul about and keep it from reaching the afterlife.</p><p></p><p>Orcs, having already had the weakness burned from their body both by their creator and then again in their coming of age ritual, see the burning of corpses as the greatest insult and taboo. The body of an orc, or someone honored by an orc, should be left on the field of battle for the scavengers who carry the spirit to the afterlife. A trophy may be taken from the fallen by the victor, and this is a great honor for both of them. The heads of great warriors are taken and either dried and preserved intact or boiled down to just the skull. Lesser, but respected foes, may give up an ear, finger, or weapon. These trophies are either worn by the victor, attached to a battle standard, kept by the tribe's shaman or victor, or even used to mark the borders of a tribe's territory. A respected orc who dies outside combat is placed on a platform of wood exposed to the vultures and crows, while one of little renown is heaved somewhere out of sight.</p><p></p><p>I won't clog the thread up with more, but stuff like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Redwizard007, post: 8452891, member: 7024098"] Top 3? Nah. Just the top 1. Funeral customs. Each major religion, ethnic group and social class has different ways to treat their dead, and there is a number of taboos and traditions that overlap and/or contradict one another. Each racial/cultural origin story has an elemental tie in, such as the 1st Dwarves being cut from stone or the Orcs having weakness burned from their bodies, that influences treatment of the dead. Dwarves wish to be returned to the stone, ideally a stone sarcophagus deep underground but poorer dwarves may have to settle for cremation and having their ashes set in a niche cut into paupers' tunnels. Surface dwelling Dwarves might build stone mausoleums with the poor digging a rocky grave or a small cairn of piled stones. Gods forbid a dwarf corpse be left in the open where the winds can batter the soul about and keep it from reaching the afterlife. Orcs, having already had the weakness burned from their body both by their creator and then again in their coming of age ritual, see the burning of corpses as the greatest insult and taboo. The body of an orc, or someone honored by an orc, should be left on the field of battle for the scavengers who carry the spirit to the afterlife. A trophy may be taken from the fallen by the victor, and this is a great honor for both of them. The heads of great warriors are taken and either dried and preserved intact or boiled down to just the skull. Lesser, but respected foes, may give up an ear, finger, or weapon. These trophies are either worn by the victor, attached to a battle standard, kept by the tribe's shaman or victor, or even used to mark the borders of a tribe's territory. A respected orc who dies outside combat is placed on a platform of wood exposed to the vultures and crows, while one of little renown is heaved somewhere out of sight. I won't clog the thread up with more, but stuff like that. [/QUOTE]
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