The Necropoli

Necropoli are communal places of remembrance containing niches for urns and memorials rather than vast fields of individual graves. They are intended to remain places for the living: orderly, peaceful, and dignified rather than forbidding cities of the dead.

Portraits of Remembrance

Artists associated with or commissioned through the Sisters may create memorial portraits of the deceased. Displayed near an urn or memorial niche, a portrait allows later generations to remember a face without requiring a grave and monument for every ancestor.

Care for Those Left Behind

The Sisters' work does not end with cremation. They counsel the bereaved, sit with families in grief, and help communities return to ordinary life without demanding that sorrow follow a prescribed timetable or manner.

For many Aerethians, a Sister of Silence is the woman who arrives during illness or catastrophe, does the next necessary thing, and remains until her help is no longer needed.