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The Korl Grave-Right
aka Korl burial law, high-passage rite
The Korl custom by which a warrior's weapons are buried with them and the barrow-sealed — no grave-goods leave the tomb without the living kin's blessing, and to take them is to inherit the dead's quarrel.
The Korl hold that a warrior's tools stay with their deeds: the weapon that did the killing stays in the grave that holds the killer. A living Korl may sanction the release of grave-goods as a funeral service — presenting the taken item to the spirit, naming the living claimant, and accepting responsibility. Without this, the taker inherits the dead's standing enemies, the dead's debts, and — the Korl say — the dead's attention.
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- ←The Korl Greatblade — The blade is the paradigm case of the Korl Grave-Right: a warrior's weapon, sealed with the warrior, and the target of exactly the kind of lifting the custom prohibits.
- ←quest.grave-iron (unresolved) — The Korl Grave-Right is the moral stake of the quest — the reason the living Korl at Pinewatch object and what the sanction-path requires.
- →The Korl — The Korl Grave-Right is a Korl custom — it belongs to the Korl people and is enforced by living Korl kin.
- →The Lance-Barrow — The Lance-Barrow is the paradigm case of the Korl Grave-Right in this region — why it matters, what it prohibits, what the sanction path requires.
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