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Burial sites come in many shapes and sizes.

There is the traditional marked grave, often featuring a tombstone. A not overly fresh grave may offer up, in place of a rotted corpse, a foul and dangerous thing called a grave ooze. Or there may only be a tunnel left by ghouls leading into a warren.

There are of course unmarked graves too, of which there may be, nonetheless, signs. In the Ehrendton of Nova Vaasa, for example, patches where the grass has turned from yellow-green to white are called dødmangraes ("dead man's grass") and are said to be the sites of unmarked graves. It is said in Kartakass that meekulbrau berries will only grow in soil soaked in a man's blood.

Shipwrecks are very often mass graves, bearing, for a time at least, the name of the vessel upon which the dead served in their former life. It is not uncommon for ships to be haunted by the undead.

The sea is perhaps the greatest burial site of all. Any sailor "buried" at sea is consigned to the deep with the ardent hope that he stays there.

There are intrepid men, or fools, who specialise in the plundering of burial sites. There are resurrectionists who break open graves to steal freshly interred corpses which are then sold to medical research facilities, biologists, necrologists, necromancers, and butchers. Equally, there are those who seek treasure. These individuals deem themselves to be professionals, call themselves in private crypt raiders, and are wont to introduce themselves as archaeologists.

Burial sites pose an additional danger in that they may not only be trapped but also guarded, for their are special guardians for this very purpose.