Moving Graveyard

The Vloibare people are nomadic and have been for centuries. As such, they do not have graves or graveyards as would be expected for more stationary peoples. Instead, they have created a mobile form of graveyard (vægdil grårezbra) that can travel with them composed of cylinders guarded by the head of each group. 
Each is composed of a single cylinder, approximately two meters in height and decorated in the traditional style of the Vlobaire people, specific to each group. The chief is responsible for maintaining, protecting, and transporting the graveyard between camps. This task can also be given, in very large groups, to a designated 'graver' who takes over all jobs associated with the moving graveyard from the chief until such time as they are relieved of this duty. At times, this has resulted in a single family line within a group becoming gravers. 
When a member of the group dies, they are cremated in a large bonfire ceremony attended by the entire group. If more than one person has died within a short timeframe, they will be cremated together. Once the bonfire has died out, the ashes are collected and a fraction placed into the moving graveyard. The rest are scattered into the wind from the nearest hill. 
Vloibare people believe that all will be together in the afterlife and the combining of all ashes from a single group ensures that the souls to whom the ashes belong will be able to find one another. Refusing to place a person's ashes in the graveyard states that they are to wander the afterlife alone for eternity.

Significance

The graveyards contain a fraction of the ashes of each person from the group who has died.

Item type

Religious / Ritualistic

Related ethnicities

• Vloibare

Rarity

There is only one within each Vloibare group.