[quote=@Lovejoy]
[@shylarah]That could work, although it sounds incredibly grim and I'm not sure how the population could stomach it. I did have this idea about the remains of poor dead people being used in the smelting process for building material, so that in a way, Magnagrad is "built on the backs of the dead", or something like that. Building material isn't composed entirely of dead folks of course, but it does contain traces of them (sort of like how the Hoover Dam has dead workers in its foundations). Maybe the Church preaches that it's a worthy service to give your body over to be used to "further the city's spread" or something.
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Only sounds grim because you’re projecting the values of our society on it - to the varyans, it could be no more than a fact of life. You return to the earth giving to your people the gift of life through food