Ankou

Ankou is a Seeker who is mated to the Overseer of the Gaelbane Graveyard.
Joined clan August 2, 2021

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A Graveyard Gaoler's strongest sense is their sense of smell, and especially canny individuals are said to be able to estimate the exact date a corpse died by the smell of decomposition.

Gaolers with Faceted eyes have a special connection with insects, and are excellent at finding honey and hives. Especially powerful individuals can summon swarms of bees and wasps of multiple species.

To cope with their hard lives and the many grieving dragons and beastkin they encounter, Graveyard Gaolers frequently use extremely dark gallows humor-though never in front of the bereaved-and delight in using death, bear, or Plague-related puns and jokes. However, many struggle with depression, burnout, PTSD, and many mental issues and illnesses due to nature of their work.

Order: Seeker
The most far-traveling Graveyard Gaoler order, Seekers typically specialize in capturing or culling either necromancers or the undead, although some specialize in both or hunt The Shade in addition to the other two scourges. Seekers are the Graveyard Gaolers most frequently encountered outside of graveyards and other burial places. Most Graveyard Gaolers are homebodies and dislike traveling too far from their Graveyards, so these dragons often receive care packages from their stationary friends and relatives.

Coffinists believe in containing non-malicious undead and culling the rest. The two sects see each other as a pack of heretics-Cremationists see Coffinists as willfully misinterpreting The Great Hunt to protect their little undead friends, allowing these abominations to blight the land, while Coffinists see Cremationists as impractical and dogmatic at best and bloodthirsty fanatics at worst.

Cremationist and Coffinists are not the only Graveyard Gaoler sects; lively and spirited theological thought, isolation, and nothing better to do with their time in the graveyard have spawned dozens of Graveyard Gaoler sects. All the sects hate necromancers however, and many Graveyard Gaoler clans believe they have permission to arrest or even kill necromancers caught in the act on sight. This can bring them into conflict with clans and flights that tolerate or even encourage necromancy: what looks to a Graveyard Gaoler like "stopping an abominable ritual" and "purging a heretic" looks to other clans like "kidnapping" and "murder". This is especially true in the Earth Flight, and Graveyard Gaolers are actually banned from some areas in the Cairnstone Rest.

Coffinist dragons may take undead familiars as a means of supervising them. This may get them side-eyes at best and charges of heresy at worst. Ghostly familiars receive little scrutiny because they do not have bodies.