Frigid River Cemetary

[Maddyn]

Set far outside the town, even after the expansion of Frigid River's walls was the cemetary. Moving towards the north, well away from the river and drawing closer towards the Great Mountains was a hill rising upwards. It was here that the dead of Frigid River found their final resting place on Telath as their soul went to Aetheria or Aeternia as their life's actions had dictated. The reasoning though for the placement rather than a nice, if not sometimes gloomy and depressing grounds being outside the city now was the ramifications of the old Thane's sister - Lilienne Sarista.

Surrounding the hilltop was a large stone wall build from granite that went the whole way around with but a single break in the grounds. The walls themselves were almost twelve metres high and one metre thick with iron rusted spikes on the top. The doorway was rather less fortrified, an iron gate at the front set in a stone arch. From inside though two heavily reinforced doors could be swung shut... but the mechanism for this was located on the outside. Twin hideous gargoyles sat on both sides of the gates walls watching.

The place wasn't so much designed as to keep unwanted people out, as it was to keep unwanted things from leaving. It'd happened in the past, and learning from ones mistakes after the disasters the Lauryllian's had experienced was a necessity.

During the daylight candlemarks only, the doors were opened to reveal row after row of weather aged and cracked tombstones. The names barely ever visible, often covered with lichen and moss until one came closer towards the end of the cemetary on the opposite side where the crypts lay along with the entrance to the catacombs that were rumoured to extend into the city through the old sewer workings. Not that anyone ever checked, and managed to come back out again. Here, elegantly carved marble crypts were build, honouring the Thanes and the Lylles who'd lived within Frigid River itself.

The entrance to the Catacombs sat behind this, nestled against the wall and built from granite hewn blocks. It was naught more than a square with two windows that showed stained glass windows - the right bearing Jalat's likeness and the left bearing Ioannes on the Sun Throne. This doorway however was rarely, if ever seen open even if lights were seen dancing behind the stained glass windows. It was here that Priestess Crystania's Opposite Number resided in overseeing the morgue. A Priest by the name of Marius de Milo having lived there for nigh over a decade now.