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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 4713969" data-attributes="member: 54364">Random ideas as they occur to me: Some sort of remembrance ceremony. Maybe a big dance (a la the Ghost Dance.) Everyone dances themselves into a trance or a frenzy. Maybe the Ghost Dance even summons forth the spirits of the dead warriors. Cremation and inhumation have been covered. How about: Some cultures leave the dead to exposed to be eaten by wild animals. A mortuary tower is built, circled by a long ramp that winds all the way the top. The corpses are placed on the ramp to be devoured by vultures and such like. Or the dead may just be left where they lie or placed in trees or on scaffolds, etc, etc. Embalment is another option. Just think: oodles of mini-mummies. Aquatic burial. Was it a sea battle? Are the goblins some sort of sea marauders? If so then a viking funeral may be in order. Some sort of underwater tombs. Maybe the goblins buried the dead then diverted a stream over the top to form a shallow lake. Now guarded by aquatic goblin zombies and ghouls. ANother thing that happened was that when the flesh was all gone from the body (whether burnt or rotted or eaten) the bones would be gathered up and placed in a mortuary specifically designed to hold bones. And this may in turn become a giant freaky bone golem thing with a hundred heads. Grief as a communal ritual requires some sort of obvious outward signs that all can share in and understand. It's a way for an individual to say 'I also share the pain and am a member of the community.'  Some sort of self-mutilation (ritual scarring, maybe even just shaving the head) as a sign of grief. Maybe wearing particular clothes/jewellery/head dress. A funeral oration recounting the heroic deeds of the deceased. Hard to do for a whole army admittedly but maybe there could be a lot of different orations going on around the battlefield at the same time. Competing orations and their audiences get into brawls (if your goblins are of the Warhammer comedy-goblin bent.) A battle recreation. Some goblins dress up as the enemy and then get their arses kicked around the battlefield by the other goblins. Of course there were heavy goblin losses so maybe the recreation could focus on some of these tragic turns in the battle before the inevitable goblin victory at the end. Has the comic option of the PCs running into a bunch of goblins dressed up as elves or dwarves or whoever the enemy was. Clerics (and lay followers) saying prayers.  Mass hysteria. When you get a lot of folks in one place venting deep felt emotions things have a habit of getting out of hand. Think of it like a particularly vicious mosh pit. Was the goblin army from one, big goblin nation or was it an alliance of tribes? If an alliance of tribes then various different traditions can be used. Hope some of these help.cheers.</blockquote>

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