Freyonayan Cairns



''And the Lord Ember beset upon the mound, held in the meadow gathering high above the rest of the housings of his distant kin - the people of Thaine. He besot himself upon the gathered stones littered about the earthen mound from which brightly coloured bounds of floral assortments did grow amidst thickened grass. The stone archway henceward did possess no small number of steps inward leading to what would a great number of his ancestors, and so he sought penance for the deconstruction of his line, praying in the manner of his ancient ancestors and kindred long-since-forgotten, praying to those who first walked the wooded isle.''

It is the most ancient of ways that the men of what would become Termansk, after the era of the Freyonaye, would honor the dead. In life as it is death, honor permeates the essence of being and thus is never lost; so should the dead be treated as they were in life.

As houses formed around the longevity of planning, so did the need arrise for honoring the soon-to-be forgotten heroes and great men of the generation. From this practice, the Freyonaye codified the worship of ones ancestors for guidance and will in times of need. This practice was popularized and centralized during the Termanskian era, shortly before it was abandoned after the collapse of Termanskian society, only to be reformed into the heathen orrycism that abandoned the old ways centuries later.

Still, the cairns of ancient houses litters the coastal and wooded lands of Selvin, the Annunaic know little for their contents and care less, burning their dead or dropping the bodies into the sea for fish-fodder. Some might have a mind to disturb the ancient places of their people, but the more superstitious would warn you to stay away from them for fear of righteous and holy retribution from the spirits within, of whom it is said hold the power of the veil - the ability to walk between life and dead wholeheartedly and without remorse as wraiths.