Aware-wolf#PennedPossibilities 824 — What superstitions pertaining to the dead exist in-universe for your WIP?
One by one each took a drink served by Medb who would say “Go with strength to carry on,” to which they replied “With every breath, they are remembered," before shifting back into a wolf and leaving to trek home.
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Medb's people drink the ashes of their dead so the spirits of the dead know they are still a part of the pack, cherished and loved. It is believed that if someone dies and some of their ashes aren't consumed, that the spirit has a harder time moving on because they don't have a living person carrying them inside too guide them along the way.
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It's a background thing, likely a topic that will show up in #ShapeshiftHeir , but Medb carries an anxiety around from the loss of her universe. There's a part of her frozen from the #trauma of literally all of her people except her being wiped out. She doesn't have any means of mourning because there are no bodies to cremate and make the /broth/ to drink so all the spirits (if they still exist somewhere) will know they are remembered. She's lost everything, and can't even #grieve properly
#SanguineDreams #RidersOfTheDream #Death #Writing #FuneraryCustoms #FuneraryCannibalism