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Noxian Burial Practices: Graverobbers Need Not Apply

NotaRobot1006·11/4/2019, 2:03:19 PM·6 votes·6,203 views

Thesis: Graverobbing is extremely uncommon in Noxus because people generally aren't buried with anything valuable and left unguarded.

First of all, Noxus Prime doesn't have a whole lot of space to bury people _ in._ I'm sure some of the noble houses have family crypts, but your average middle-class schmuck isn't going to have a whole lot of room if they want to bury Grandma. Most people in the city would probably get cremated to save on space. Noxus does have a whole lot of land that can't grow anything, so it's possible you'd get some proper graveyards further outside the Bastion.

Secondly, Noxus has a well-deserved reputation for brutal pragmatism. Why bury Grandma with her favorite quarterstaff? What's she going to do with it? Better to keep it in the family so someone else can make use of it.

The nobles with their fancy family crypts might bury people with stuff, since they can afford to have people guard said crypts. We know Sion was interred (briefly) in his own monument, and they probably put his ax in there, too. But the looting risk would still be pretty low since you'd need a team of multiple thieves and an oxcart to get Sion's ax anywhere.

Well, that's pretty much it on my end. Feel free to add your own ideas and theories.

(I know Realms of Runeterra is coming out TOMORROW, so it's very possible a lot of stuff in this post is going to be proven wrong. But I'm not going to let that stop me.)

3 Comments

Morticianjohn11/4/2019, 4:35:11 PM3 votes

Burial practices are always interesting

mrmeddyman11/4/2019, 8:48:52 PM3 votes

I totally forgot the book was coming tomorrow. On top of Red Dead Redemption ooooh its' gonna be a good day.

(I checked the price on Amazon and it looks like they lowered the price of the book to about 18 dollars when I'm pretty sure it was 35 before. Any reason for this?)

rollz311/4/2019, 5:37:25 PM1 votes

I agree that with how Noxus is they wouldn't let useful items rot in the ground unless you are notable renowned like Sion, but of course if you are that famous in Noxus and die they'll probably just bring you back to life since I would assume the process of reanimating a corpse take a great deal of effort and not be done for everyone.

That said, at first I personally thought that Noxus simply turned anyone who died in a major city into an undead so that if their living army was somehow eradicated that would have reserves in the event of a emergency but the logistical problems of housing thousands of undead without anyone noticing has its own issues and probably would get scorn from practically every nation (except maybe Zaun) if they were creating undead in mass.

As for Cremation I'd say it'd be more common in Zaun then Noxus and at the moment I think they'd have something akin to the catacombs of Paris that sprawls under the major cities for miles and that's where most Noxian citizens who weren't rich/famous enough go when they die.