With an important RP scene looming tomorrow, the burial of a young cavalier who served Abadar, I'm looking for a couple key (ha) phrases for the Abadaran priest. I don't need the entire ceremony, I'm just looking for some flavour.
Burial seems like an appropriate funeral for servants of the Master of the First Vault. A mausoleum would be more appropriate, but out on the borderlands of Brevoy there don't seem to be a lot of those about.
Some ideas so far...
"We lock him away in the earth, Great Lord, so that you may open the doors of the Great vault to your follower, that he may continue to aid your work in the afterlife as he did while among us."
"Master of the Vault, we pray that you weigh your servant's deeds, and find him worth to include in your treasures."
Sort of running into a wall at this point.
Thoughts?
Heheheh. No, you're right, a cash bar would be more appropriate, I think. :)
Tipping discouraged, as The AbaBar's prices and wages are all divinely just.
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IMHO, followers of Abadar shouldn't bury their dead but, instead, build a tomb overground.
OK, OK, I know you don't have enough material to build a mausoleum because you're out in the wild. You should build an overground , outdoors sarcophagus out of clay bricks or, at the very least, out of stones. Lay a brick/stones floor, drop the body there, build up the sarcophagus.
Have everyone in the ceremony place at least one brick (or stone), and say: "May your child find comfort in his afterlife home, as he found comfort in his home city"
Have everyone put a gold coin sandwiched between the bricks. "May your child find prosperity in the Grand Vault, as he found prosperity in life"
As you may know, it's Pharasma and not Abadar who decides where sould go in the afterlife. Pharasma and Abadar don't seem to have a bad relationship, so feel free to drop a reference to that when putting a golden key as the finishing touch: "Beloved [dead's name], may with this key the Reaper helps you find the way to your fate. May with this key you open the doors to the Grand Vault".