High Elf Lore Idea.

[Samler 1565]

Hello! I was thinking "what happened to the dead high elves"? I have heard of a number of dead ones but there aren't any graves, tombs or urns with their ashes. Does anyone have any idea how we can build on the lore around them to enhance realism and deepen gameplay? Thanks!

[JoakimVonAnka 63]

I was actually wondering this aswell after Valarus died. I personally like the idea of a tomb-looking thingy under the collage. How the lore itself would look like, I have no idea.

[Mithradites 1168]

I think burning would be the most appropriate. Since the high-elves have no religious beliefs, the removing of a corpse would simply be a means to an end. Respect shown to the body depends on personal preference and how much that person was liked. What reason would the high-elves have to bury or entomb someone when burning is far more clean and efficient?

[Cracker 4570]

Burning someone would be destroying a pure high elves life, blood, and bones though...

Seems something which conservatives would not like considering our blood is so pure.

[Talias 177]

I'd say burn them and put the ash in an urn then place that urn in a tomb so that people may come back years later and still honor thair ancestors

[Maximas1211 34]

The Urn and Tomb are both formidable and excellent ideas! Regardless improving the lore of our ancestors is another marvelous idea. Excessively we've already had the lore constructed or so I think.. It's best you confirm this with Ellir or the Haelun'or team.

[Sporadic 2844]

I personally voted for the cremation option, as I don't like the idea of a clean burial instead of graves. Elves don't really seem like the mourning time (mostly because they live for so long, after a hundred years the grave just becomes awkward).

Remember, though, because Elf births are so rare it would mean that Elf deaths are equally so (probably even rarer, assuming the population is growing), Funerals would be sufficiently rare for Elves not to need large tombs and gravesites. Just keep that in mind.

More fitting would probably be for the Elves to keep the urns in their homes and shrines for a few years, or scattering the ashes somewhere...

[VonAulus 2082]

I think we would burn them, then put them in urns. Also, maybe a copy of on of their books is placed in the urn with the ashes? This could lead to a nice possible event where we find a tomb full of urns, and when we open them, a book, containing some coolio lore. It would also teach us how to deal with the dead.

[Mercury199 86]

I thought of this long ago and my conclusion that the only appropriate funeral to fit a high elf would be cremation.

[Yuln 265]

Cremation FTW!

[Dio Astóre 69]

Cremation would seem a logical choice if we consider the advantages it has in reality, although from a lore perspective Elven funerals would be a rare occurence outside of war, where for environmental reasons mass cremation is the most applicable method regardless. To my knowledge there are no widely accepted rites of death as of yet, which allows for a bit of individual freedom in determining what preferences one has in funeral processions. Whether Elves do not consider their own mortality much because of their long life-spans or if they pay it more heed simply because they have the time for contemplation is again I suppose a matter of individuality.

Death has a lot of symbolic significance, which I believe would be all the more pronounced in Elvish societies. If one wishes to be placed upon a boat drifting out to sea, or upon a burning pyre, or entombed within the earth, or go out like Diogenes is an aspect of roleplay I should like to see a measure of uniqueness in as each person has. Keep the catapulting into the sun to a minimum though, if at all possible, lest one of the bodies fall short of the mark and inspire a new religion.

[steelersfan1221 300]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.