Prayers and candles, on the deathday. The Feast of the Moon marks the start of winter, but it's for honoring the dead, too. We bless graves and, it varies, a lot of deities have their own rituals, but a lot of us in Candlekeep follow Oghma, our god of knowledge. It's not a formal tradition, but some use the day to record their memories of the dead. It's usually a very solitary practice.
[ ness had a book, in candlekeep, a small journal in which she'd started writing down her memories of imithren and the other people she knew who'd died in the netherese attack. it's nothing she can't start over, but she does feel a pang of loss for it all the same—what if she's forgotten something? what if those memories are lost forever?
should she start recording her memories of faerûn? what do you do when you're the one who died? ]
What about you? I've read about Nevarran burial customs, but there's not much said about mourning rites, or elven traditions.
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Prayers and candles, on the deathday. The Feast of the Moon marks the start of winter, but it's for honoring the dead, too. We bless graves and, it varies, a lot of deities have their own rituals, but a lot of us in Candlekeep follow Oghma, our god of knowledge. It's not a formal tradition, but some use the day to record their memories of the dead. It's usually a very solitary practice.
[ ness had a book, in candlekeep, a small journal in which she'd started writing down her memories of imithren and the other people she knew who'd died in the netherese attack. it's nothing she can't start over, but she does feel a pang of loss for it all the same—what if she's forgotten something? what if those memories are lost forever?
should she start recording her memories of faerûn? what do you do when you're the one who died? ]
What about you? I've read about Nevarran burial customs, but there's not much said about mourning rites, or elven traditions.