The Monastic Crypts of Unatta

The Monastic Crypts of Unatta is one of the first, if not the very first, necropolis of Avon. It was within these dark tombs that the people of Aelondë buried their dead and kept them in store for the day when the curse of death would be cured. The caretakers of the crypts were the exalted Embalmers of Unatta, who were so entrusted by the people of the city that the Embalmers were allowed to care for the lost loved ones of the populace. The monastic crypts are located on the eastern cliffs of the great cavern of Unatta and its necropolis tunnels deep into the cavern wall.

In Tales of Avon
The Monastic Crypts are, as their name implies, a sprawling, religious complex built in pointed architecture, its walls filled with inscribed cascets and bejeweled sarcophaguses. There are numerous altars to Älori placed throughout the halls and hallways of the necropolis, to safeguard agains the evil of the Night, and the core of the complex is its murky sanctuary.

Here follows descriptions of the 13 scenes of the monastic crypts:

The Leaping Monastery Bridge
Connecting the promonotory that the monastic crypts are built over with the carved road that leads to it is a lone, leaping bridge that has endured the test of time, being made from regenerative Aelondë stonework.
 * If crossed carelessly one risks alerting the waryns that prowl of the cavern.

Monastery Narthex
The narthex and foyer of the monastery is indeed reminiscent of a wistful sanctuary, with fonts of sippering water, candle-altars as well as an arcaded ceiling. The foyer continues to the murky sanctuary via the granite gates atop its stairway and branches off to the common embalming chambers via its doors to the north-west and into an arcaded path to the north-east that opens up to the monastic cloister.
 * If listening, the whispers of the entombed may be heard, chanting "xinhei vor xoe", meaning death will end.

Central Sanctuary
The central sanctuary makes the core of the monastic crypts and is where the embalming rituals took place.