The Embalmers of Unatta

Far underneath Aelondë, in the great, yawning cavern of Unatta, are the monastic crypts that house the hallowed dead of Aelondë, as well as the old, clerical Embalmers of city, who sought to understand the nature of death in order to overcome it. The Embalmers were comissioned by the Lords of Aelondë after the passing of the First Night to discover the cure for the curse of death that the Night had forced upon the world.

Origin
Before the First Night all beings were eternal and there was no death, thus, with the coming of the first Night, all the creatures of the world despaired, for no one knew of what fate awaited the deceased. In their incomprehension, people all across mortal Avon developed customs for preserving their dead as a way of keeping them safe for their eventual resurrection, once the curse of death would be cured. So it was, sometime during the Time of Lies, that the Lords of Aelondë, in their old age, asked the clerical caretakers of the to begin research into death itself, with the hopes of such knowledge revealing some way of combating entropy. These preservers of corpses became the first Embalmers of Aelondë, who assumed residence inside the crypts of the cavern of Unatta, wherein the corpses of Aelondë were stored as a means of keeping them away from the populace.

The Embalmers studied the deceased thru esoteric rites and tools, as well as the very transformation from life to death, until they gained knowledge over it. Using this knowledge, the Embalmers transcribed sorcerous rituals for embalming and mummification, using vitalizing glyphs to enable corpses to resist decaying, as well as devising powerful sarcophaguses capable of regenerating any flesh. It was not long before the crypts they inhabited flourished into a sprawling monastery and the Embalmers were awarded the caverns of Unatta by their city lords, as estates of their own, and their leader earned the title of Parish-Priest.

Organization
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