Catacombs
During the first age of Absalom, Aroden’s cult dug catacombs beneath the streets of the Ascendant Court so that their mortal remains could be laid to rest as close as possible to the Starstone Cathedral. Over the centuries, the catacombs expanded into complex labyrinths. Access was generally through a street-level shrine, from which a staircase descended into a wide main passageway intersected by a grid of narrower corridors. In later centuries, pilgrims made candlelit processions through these passages to pay homage to Aroden’s first followers, and received sacramental coins engraved with the early saints’ faces to commemorate the pilgrimage. Today, these catacomb coins carry great value as relics of Absalom’s history, though few genuine coins survive, and the city’s criminal element is known to sell forgeries to wealthy collectors.
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