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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 9470921" data-attributes="member: 92511"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The proper period of mourning is one full moon's turn for each year of their reign. Dwarven society slows substantially -possibly for decades- as mandatory attention/attendance to the numerous services and processions in the king's honor break up the day. Dress is expected to be somber. Overt luxury or decorative adornment (lots of rings, gold, precious stones, jewlery - other than those denoting some rank or position) is frowned upon.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Funerary dirges are sung, daily, at morning and dusk, publicly by multiple choruses of clerics and monks and devoted family members.. These can carry on for an hour or more, citing the king's achievements, history, life story, battles, treaties, delves, marriages, children, and anything that's been beneficial to the dwarven kingdom</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A procession to the tomb's location is conducted every start of day (as the dirges proceed), mostly chanting hymns of blessing for the departed and the dwarves who have the honor of building the actual tomb.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Construction of the king's personal final resting place in the massive funerary halls of the kingdom's long history is not begun until the king's passing. The tomb requires its own new entrance, an outer hall for offerings/visitors, thoroughly decorated with wall-carvings of the king's life and greatest accomplishments; the "public tomb" -which may involve several chambers and/or multiple levels- that is similarly decorated, along with rows and rows of Rune-spells carved upon the walls, floors and ceilings: to protect the soul of the dead, curses upon tomb-robbers, speed the king to the afterlife, and such like...; and then a hidden/secret "inner tomb" -again of several possible chambers, finally with the sarcophagus itself where the body is actually interred. Their greatest treasures, trophies, and keepsakes are interred with them. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The months to years this construction takes (depending on the affluence and admiration the king enjoyed) is a great honor for all the dwarves who get to work upon it... several clans have been raised to great heights of fame and prosperity for their exceptional tomb-building work. Basically, the tomb of every dwarvish king is its own mini-pyramid...upside-down beneath the mountains/in the deep stone roots.  </li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>

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