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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 563777" data-attributes="member: 2093">First you need to decide how the body is to be disposed of: buried, burnt, left out for the elements, mummified? I could Ehlonna wanting her priestess to be washed, wrapped in bandages with herbs and other pleasing but not overly lavish items (perfume, beads made of flower petals, carved tokens of respect, etc...) and then placed in a holy cave or sealed in a mound, or even put on an open platform at the top of a tree. So you could have several days of preparation, in which her followers prayed over the body, laid it out, had a final viewing or even a wake, a final ceremony in which the body is carried to its resting place, a procession back to the village, and a time of silence/mourning/special activity.Dress these ideas up with things you know about the locals, and you've got a simple funeral. Of course, you also have to decide at what point the bad guys are going to interrupt. Once the body has been properly given to the goddess, it may not be acceptable to them for their purposes.Gilladian</blockquote>