Necropolis of Tandem

Author: Darklady2831

Three hundred years age, the Free City of Tandem realized that it had a problem. Too many people living in confined spaces, poor hygiene, and corpses buried anywhere there was land had led to the outbreak of many plagues. To rectify this problem, the Senate issued a decree: all bodies were to be exhumed from their places of burial, all mausoleums were to be demolished, and all corpses were to be relocated to burial grounds outside the northern walls of the newly built Barrows District. These burial grounds, as large as an entire district, came to be known as 'Necropolis'. Noble Houses commissioned new Mausoleums and Crypts for their dead, the poor scrambled over each other to find a spot to bury their loved ones, and century-old corpses were tossed into pits en mass. Temples and Chapels were constructed along the walls of Tandem, facing out to the massive cemeteries that had been created. Only three decades ago, a wall was built around Necropolis, with many acres of land left bare for Necropolis' future 'inhabitants'.