Episode 162 Podcast of the Dead

Worldbuilder's Anvil

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Today's Topic Death helps create a culture and that in turn becomes religion

Join Michael and Jeff as the look at a simple system to develop death rituals for your fantasy worldbuilding cultures.

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Podcast Show Flow

How did they die?
- Considered natural
- Suicide
- Martyrdom
- Warriors death
What is the major cultural risk to having someone dead around?
- Attracting dangerous animals?
- Diseases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_risks_from_dead_bodies
  - Miasma Theory – Diseases spread from the smell of the dead
- The night of the living dead
- Punishment from a god
Mourning
- Your loss
- Their loss
- What happens to them now
  - Afterlife or not?
- Take out your dead
  - Burn her
    - Cremation
  - Bury Her
    - Grave (Together or apart)
    - Known or hidden
    - Tomb
    - Cave
    - Side of the hill
    - Freezer
  - Dump her
    - Dumped out in nature
      - Sky burial
    - 150 Rocks fired into space
    - I am not dead yet! (Cryonics)
  - Eater
- Other factors that might change the ritual
  - Important, good or bad
  - Died in war
  - Martyrdom
    - Self or determined
  - Suicide
    - Alone or aided

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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Look at the rituals involving death in your main culture

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