Phent Cemetary

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You walk down the path leading from Farmers’ Road to the cemetery.  Twenty foot high wrought iron gates surround a piece of land many acres in size.  A long thin building just inside the gates is covered with vines, and appears two have several sections to it.  From one side of the building, you notice citizens wearing the holy symbol of Kelemvor, Lord of the Dead, coming and going.

 

There is one gate which leads into the cemetery, and a sign nearby indicates that the hours of visitation are from sunrise to sunset only.  The trees beyond in the yard all seem relatively small and young.  Several people are walking among the gravestones, a few of which bear fresh flowers.  Some tombstones have already fallen in disarray, and weathering is evident on the statuary.

 

This cemetery is only one century old, as after the Rising of 1374, it was mandated that all caskets in city limits be moved outside the walls (except for those permitted to remain at the Cathedral of Chauntea cemetery).  Of course, this does not include the corpses that exhumed themselves in 1374 during the Rising.

 

In that year, a group of villainous clerics of Bane caused a mass rising of the dead, which rampaged through the city, killing many more people.  It took nearly a month to track down all of the undead, and only one cleric of Bane, a lackey called Nightfang, was ever brought to justice.