Līctūn
Four cells down the south road from Cēaptūn, beside the road, is Līctūn, the town’s churchyard. A drystone wall runs round it, with a gate on the road. Inside are rows of grave plots, a yew in each corner, and a little stone chapel in the middle. Nothing comes there to fight you.
The sexton, Old Dudda, walks his rounds of the yard. He will talk, grimly, but has nothing to sell and nothing to ask of you. Walk off the yard’s edge to leave.
Your dead
Every character who dies goes into the graveyard, a list kept beside your settings. Each of them gets a grave of their own in Līctūn, except those who were turned to stone: they stand as statues instead. Look at a grave to read it: “Here lies Brakka the dwarf warrior, killed by a kobold in Fyrdelf 3, The Ascmearc.”
The oldest death is buried first. The yard has forty plots, in four rows of ten, filled from the top row down and left to right. An empty plot is a kerb of stones round turned earth; a filled one has its stone.
Ten older stones stand by the chapel. They are the town’s own dead, and each has its own words: “Here lies Ælfric atte Welle, reeve of Cēaptūn, 1361–1419. He kept the peace and the tally both.”
The crypts
When all forty plots are filled, the flagstone at the end of the path behind the chapel opens into stairs down to the first crypt. Your dead go on being laid there in the same order, oldest first, in its niches and stone coffins, filled from the top row down and left to right. When every place in a crypt is filled, a stair opens in it down to the next. Each crypt is older and rougher than the one above it, and each has a grave or two of its own, with its own words.
| Crypt | What it is | Places |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Līctūn crypt 1 | family vaults off a nave | 26 |
| 2. Līctūn crypt 2 | a charnel walled with bones, and a hall of coffins | 30 |
| 3. Līctūn crypt 3 | the priests’ crypt, laid out as a cross | 30 |
| 4. Līctūn crypt 4 | the chapmen’s gild’s round vault | 26 |
| 5. Līctūn crypt 5 | the old sextons’ store and workroom | 26 |
| 6. Līctūn crypt 6 | a crypt the ground water flooded | 25 |
| 7. Līctūn crypt 7 | small rooms for the children of a hard winter | 24 |
| 8. Līctūn crypt 8 | a pillared hall whose roof fell in | 31 |
| 9. Līctūn crypt 9 | a pit dug in a year of plague | 26 |
| 10. Līctūn crypt 10 | the first monks’ cloister, cut in the rock round their saint’s shrine | 32 |
| 11. Līctūn crypt 11 | a hall on columns, built before the English came | 27 |
| 12. Līctūn crypt 12 | a house for the ashes of the people before the English, its walls full of little niches | 40 |
| 13. Līctūn crypt 13 | a temple dug in secret for a god whose name is lost | 28 |
| 14. Līctūn crypt 14 | a round chamber about a spring | 21 |
| 15. Līctūn crypt 15 | an earth-house: a long low passage dug in the clay | 32 |
| 16. Līctūn crypt 16 | the inside of a round barrow, coffins in a ring | 20 |
| 17. Līctūn crypt 17 | a long barrow of great stones, chambers off its passage | 36 |
| 18. Līctūn crypt 18 | a cave where the first people of the place laid their dead | 27 |
| 19. Līctūn crypt 19 | a cave with a river running through it | 24 |
| 20. Līctūn crypt 20 | the deepest: a great cavern, and a ring of stones in the dark | 24 |
Nothing lives in the crypts, and they are lit only by a few candles and torches, so bring a light. Some of the deeper ones stand in water or are half filled with fallen earth and rubble, which is slow to cross. The deepest are natural caves, one with a river running through it. Crypt 20 is the last: when it is full, nothing opens below it.
See also: The Ascmearc, Your characters and the graveyard, and Statues.