Funeral cremation
The family is historically associated with rites of cremating the dead.
Household Religious Funerary Practice
House Tachonis Funeral Cremation Rites
Funerary rites historically entrusted to House Tachonis as the Priestly Family of Shadow, associated with cremation and passage from one realm to another.
Confirmed With Historical ScopeFirst recorded: The Snipping of Shears
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Confirmed Scope
House Tachonis is described as the Priestly Family of Shadow and as having been gifted funeral cremation rites concerned with movement from one realm to another.
Not yet established
- The complete sequence, wording or material requirements of the rites.
- Whether House Tachonis still performs these rites publicly in the present day.
- Whether the rites apply to all peoples, only particular followers or only members of certain houses.
- Whether the family’s necromantic practices are part of, derived from or separate from the cremation rites.
Observed and described
Practices & Traditions
Guiding passage between realms
The rites are described as helping move the dead from one realm to another and are linked to the family’s identity as the Priestly Family of Shadow.
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The Snipping of Shears03:36:40–03:37:17
House Tachonis is identified as the Priestly Family of Shadow, associated with the journey through night to the next day and gifted with rites of funeral cremation and passage between realms.
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Evidence Notes
House Tachonis is identified as the Priestly Family of Shadow, associated with the journey through night to the next day and gifted with rites of funeral cremation and passage between realms.
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Uncertainties
- Who originally granted the rites and under which divine or Shaper tradition they developed.
- How the rites relate to the Tachonis castle in Death and the family’s current use of undead servants.
- Whether any recognised practitioners outside House Tachonis preserve the tradition.