The Vandahl Ranked Burial

House Vandahl's ancestral custom of interring its dead by bloodline rank — the highest goes deepest, the most powerful most sealed — which ensures that those who ring the longest are also the hardest to reach and the most likely to walk.

The rule is simple: a Vandahl is buried as far from the living as their rank deserves. A hireling in the upper crypts, a housecarl mid-niche, the heirs and lords at the bottom of the deepest undercroft. The idea was that depth equals honour. The practical effect, which the house does not discuss, is that the proudest dead — the ones laid down with the most grave-goods, the ones most likely to ring per concept.the-long-ring — are the furthest from any warden who might notice them standing up.