The Bonehoard

[Macsen]

Or, at least, a hoard of bones.

 

I'd never heard about this place before. There's some inspiration there for woo lovin' dark mod mission builders.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_ossuary

[Macsen]

For those of you too lazy to click the link:

 

[Sotha]

Cozy. I've got one of those in my bedroom....

[Andrey]

http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?...120#post1509120

Also http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?...509#post1494509

and etc.

[Ombrenuit]

Makes you wonder where all those skeletons came from...

[Baddcog]

Makes you wonder where all those skeletons came from...

 

 

They come from dead people, muwahahaha

[Gildoran]

Makes you wonder where all those skeletons came from...

I don't know about the Sedlec Ossuary, but in many parts of Europe, the plagues left so many dead people that nobody could find enough space put all the bodies. Often they'd stack coffin after coffin in the same grave site with the uppermost coffins being as little as 6 inches under the surface. Eventually the ground in graveyards would become unstable and prone to collapse, toppling grave markers and exposing diseased rotting carcasses. When the graveyards became too full to pack any more corpses in them, they'd excavate the whole place and fill a cave or church vault with the resulting charnel, creating catacombs, ossuaries and charnel houses. Then they'd be free to start afresh, loading up the graveyards with even more corpses...

[Tels]

I don't know about the Sedlec Ossuary, but in many parts of Europe, the plagues left so many dead people that nobody could find enough space put all the bodies. Often they'd stack coffin after coffin in the same grave site with the uppermost coffins being as little as 6 inches under the surface. Eventually the ground in graveyards would become unstable and prone to collapse, toppling grave markers and exposing diseased rotting carcasses. When the graveyards became too full to pack any more corpses in them, they'd excavate the whole place and fill a cave or church vault with the resulting charnel, creating catacombs, ossuaries and charnel houses. Then they'd be free to start afresh, loading up the graveyards with even more corpses...

 

See also:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death