Innistrad Graveyards (or "Grafs")

Zennistrad · 2012-01-21 13:42:47

Okay, in the newest Magic: the Gathering set, Innistrad, the setting is basically one big homage to the Gothic Horror genre. In the world of Innistrad, graveyards (or "grafs" in Innistradi slang) are a hotbed for ghoulcallers (necromancers) and stitchers (mad scientists who create flesh constructs similar to Frankenstein's Monster) searching for raw material. The main religion in Innistrad is heavily centered around finding a way to not be brought back as a zombie or geist (ghost.)

So why in the hell do they choose to bury their dead, anyway? I dunno about you guys, but I think practicing cremation would solve the zombie problem in the very least. Geez.

ClockworkUniverse · 2012-01-21 13:44:28

I don't know much about the setting, but just going on what you're saying there, then they'd have a much worse ghost problem than they already do. Again, I don't know much about the setting here, but ghosts strike me as harder to deal with than zombies.

Nyktos · 2012-01-21 13:46:41

Some of the ghosts are nice, though, so that might be preferable.

I feel like this was addressed somewhere on the mothership; let me see if I can find it.

Edit: Yeah, INUH more or less has it actually. According to this, it's impossible to achieve the Blessed Sleep through cremation, and indeed one is almost guaranteed to end up a geist.

Stormtroper · 2012-01-21 13:49:19

"ghosts strike me as harder to deal with than zombies."

Undead Warchief disagrees.

Also, I just realized Graveborn Muse is a zombie goast.

ClockworkUniverse · 2012-01-21 13:49:27

Edit: Yeah, INUH more or less has it actually. According to this, it's impossible to achieve the Blessed Sleep through cremation, and indeed one is almost guaranteed to end up a geist.

Achievement Unlocked - blindfolded darts: make a wild guess about something you know nothing about, but get it right.

Nyktos · 2012-01-21 13:50:59

Well, if nothing else, Slayer of the Wicked can't deal with ghosts, and Elite Inquisitor doesn't have protection from them.

Icalasari · 2012-01-21 13:52:48

What about cutting uo the body into tiny little pieces, feeding the pieces to, say, a group of pigs, slaughtering the pigs, throwing the pigs down a deep hole, then filling that hole up?

Nyktos · 2012-01-21 13:57:38

You'd run out of pigs fast if you did that to everyone who died.

Them · 2012-01-21 14:02:00

The crueler and weirder the death the more likely it is that ghosts will happen.

Icalasari · 2012-01-21 14:05:07

^ But that wouod be after death

MillerCross · 2012-01-21 15:09:13

What about cutting uo the body into tiny little pieces, feeding the pieces to, say, a group of pigs, slaughtering the pigs, throwing the pigs down a deep hole, then filling that hole up?

Nyktos · 2012-01-21 15:20:51

That was my first thought as well.

Gelzo · 2012-01-21 16:03:47

I don't think it's slang. "Graf" is just their word for it, right?

Nyktos · 2012-01-21 16:04:41

Other cards actually use the word "grave" though.

Bastion · 2012-01-21 16:41:36

Ultimately, the point of the religion on Innistrad is to ensure its followers' corpses go unmolested. Cremation, etc. is rather contrary to that purpose. If you don't like that your enemy is going to rob your dad's grave and do horrible things with his body, turning the body into ash might deny them a resource but it's not really a win (in a setting where existence extends after death in some form, physical survival isn't necessarily the top priority).

What about cutting uo the body into tiny little pieces, feeding the pieces to, say, a group of pigs, slaughtering the pigs, throwing the pigs down a deep hole, then filling that hole up?

Gelzo · 2012-01-21 17:01:17

^^Is that just a translation, maybe?

^

Forzare · 2012-01-21 17:03:36

That is going to be stuck in my head forever.

Gelzo · 2012-01-21 17:09:46

Forzare · 2012-01-21 17:10:56

i'm going to murder you

Gelzo · 2012-01-21 17:22:36

I've been listening to this for 13 minutes and it still entertains me.

Bastion · 2012-01-23 01:07:10

Well, someone agrees with the OP.

MillerCross · 2012-01-23 11:48:37

Buffy could've been so much more.

;_;

Saigyouji · 2012-01-23 12:22:42

^^ Geez, Dark Ascension is really pushing graveyard hate, ain't it?

MillerCross · 2012-01-23 16:21:03

Only in white. The other colours are definrlty pushing for reanimator decks.

Saigyouji · 2012-01-24 09:22:05

MadassAlex · 2012-01-24 09:37:04

Buffy could've been so much more.

Man I know we've walked this ground before but I unironically agree.

An urban fantasy about a small group of underfunded, inexperienced hunters of the undead is a pretty cool thing, but to me, Buffy is too much high school (or undergrad university) and not enough killing the shit out of undead scourge. Or rather, finding ways to deal with it. In many respects, Buffy is augmented reality rather than fantasy. This arguably works in its favour, but there's a lot one can do with the concept that isn't done.

Given that it's one of those post-Anne Rice works where vampires are human and likable and everything, I'm also going to blame it for Twilight. You heard me. :U

All Nines · 2012-01-24 10:32:53

^^ That is evil and wrong. >:[

MillerCross · 2012-01-24 20:38:10

^^ Got the wrong buffy there, mate

^^^ That's colourless.

Gelzo · 2012-01-25 09:54:50

Only in white.

Colorless graveyard hate means it isn't only in white.

Check and mate.

Bastion · 2012-04-23 12:08:41

So apparently this is what happens when you try cremation on Innistrad.

Zennistrad · 2012-04-23 12:12:13

Phht, one toughness? Just get a spear or something and give yourself first strike.

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