Rites for the Passing
Rites for the Passing contains death rites for followers of Ilmater.
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Rarity: Common
Weight: 0.05 kg / 0.1 lb
Price: 14 gp
Where to find
- Open Hand Temple Cellar X: 19 Y: -1006
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[A book of Ilmatari death rites. This page on The Turning is particularly dog-eared.]]
There will come many a time, o worshipful tormented, that you will have to comfort a faithless unfortunate as they pass from this life to the next. Or perhaps even more distastefully - you may be faced with the dying acolyte of a wretched god, keen to shrink the blasted afterlife awaiting them.
The Lord on the Rack grants us a great many powers, but altering the moral velocity of a soul is one we cannot shift on the death bed. If one has lived a life of sin, their soul is bound for a sinful place, no matter their final protestations.
However, it would do much more harm than good to tell them this. Ilmater does not forbid the speaking of untruth, no matter how polite society deems the act. If it would spare the dying wretch some suffering as they pass, tell them that the Weeping God awaits them with his balming embrace. Make them believe. Whatever torment their soul bears in the realms beyond, it remembers not their body - so spare them at least this final passing moment from hardship.