GAZETTEER · THE SERED SPUR
The Sheepwright Cairns
A scatter of small grave-cairns on the commons above Hollowfold where the shepherds lay their honest dead — a deliberate refusal of Vandahl's ranked crypts, blessed by the Mourners of the Hush.
Three generations of Hollowfold folk have buried their dead up on the commons rather than pay the house's lineage-tithe for a niche in the catacombs. The cairns are plain field-stone, hand-stacked, marked with a carved sheep if the dead person had a flock. The Mourners of the Hush bless them once a season — quietly, without asking Vandahl's leave. The house officially ignores the practice; unofficially, it is a small insult they cannot afford to punish.
KIND
landmark
PARENT PLACE
The Sered Spur
CLIMATE
open commons, windswept
DANGER TIER
0
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (4)
located_in
- →The Sered Spur — The Sheepwright Cairns are scattered on the open commons above Hollowfold.
owns
- ←The Mourners of the Hush — The Mourners of the Hush bless the Sheepwright Cairns each season, giving the common dead their rite outside Vandahl's ranked system.
references
- →The Mourners of the Hush — The Mourners of the Hush bless the Sheepwright Cairns each season without asking Vandahl's leave — a small act of pastoral ministry outside dynastic law.
- →The Vandahl Ranked Burial — The Sheepwright Cairns are a deliberate refusal of Vandahl's ranked-burial custom — the commoners bury their own outside the crypt system.
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