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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ssampier" data-source="post: 2748298" data-attributes="member: 10205">I was considering the impact of death and burial in a standard D&D campaign. Obviously the threat of death is lessen greatly by availability of spells like Raise Dead or Resurrection. Also, mass graveyards are a target for nefarious necromancer that have a habit of animating dead relatives and having them march against the local town.The alternative, cremation, leaves only small earthly remains that cannot be raised or resurrected and without a corpse necromancers cannot raise armies. Because of this threat, I was thinking that fantasy cremation may be more common.In campaign, the pantheon is Egyptian inspired. The god of death vaguely resembles Osiris, being killed by his brother Set and resurrected to the Underworld. In real-world Egyptian pantheon, bodies would be embalmed and then mummified or buried in the sands for a natural preservation.I thought it would be interesting to have a variation on a theme. After death, bodies would be ritually bathed in water and salts. The priest would intone the necessary death ritual incantations. Then, after this ritual, the organs would be removed, including the heart, liver, and kidneys and placed in blessed jars. The brain would be removed, as well, but then discarded. After the organ removal process, the priests would perform the final death ritual and set fire to the corpse.How would such cremation take place? For flavor purposes, I do not want the priests to set some sticks under the corpse and light it on fire. I was considering "magic ovens" where the magic spells destroy the body. But that reminds me too much of the horror of the Nazi Holocaust, so I'd like to avoid that scenario.What other cremations techniques can you envision?</blockquote>

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