Black flowers of mourning

Execution

A mourning ritual done in rooms/places where someone died. To honor someone's loss Daliaths will draw a flower in black near a door frame.
This is supposed to signify how the person has left (through the door), but their life (flower) still left a mark and the black in particular relates to loss of color associated with flowers wilting and dying.
The person does not need to have actually died in the room, events relevant to their death still count such as: getting shot only to die hours later somewhere else; being depressed because of bad news and wasting away months later; committing suicide by jumping off a window. The general rule is that the place must relate or make ones remember of what caused the death.

Components and tools

An actual flower and black ink.

Observance

The ritual usually takes place a few days after death. There is no upper-limit to how long the mark can be left, but it's supposed to stay a year.

Related Ethnicities

• Daliath