Selczek Gobayuik's Establishment
This quiet little embalming studio nevertheless performs brisk business. As the owner is the master of the Embalmers’ Guild, he has managed to arrange that most of the business in the River Quarter comes to his door. The other members of the guild don’t complain, for under Selczek’s leadership they have secured their monopoly on the legal disposition of corpses in the city.
This establishment is fairly typical of the type, if a bit grander than most. Selczek Gobayuik has a large display of coffins, stones, and the like. He maintains a small chapel, though generally a deceased person of strong religious faith is memorialized at his own temple.
The guild maintains civic cemeteries in the city and purchases land to set up new plots. Because of city overcrowding, the guild is about to buy a large tract of land east of the city along Ery Trail for a future burial ground. The guild has a monopoly on the (legal) disposal of corpses in the city, and only a certificate proving the death and burial of a citizen, issued by the guild to the Inspector of Taxes, Garedd Bakkanin, will remove that citizen from the census and guild rolls; otherwise, the deceased’s family members must pay the deceased’s taxes. Because of this, every relative of a dead person wants the deceased to be certified by the guild and buried. The guild works with all legal religions in Greyhawk to organize funerals, mourning ceremonies, and so forth.
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