How does the whole process of taking care of a dead body work in Waterdeep (say, someone killed on the streets)? Contact local temple?Depends. (If finder/perpetrator wants the death hidden or not.) If no one's trying to hide the body, the Watch is always called, and makes a report (cause, identity, precise location found, conjectures/witnesses). Then to temple for autopsy unless magic suspected (to Castle…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 12, 2018
…for Watchful Order-assisted Watch autopsy). Then family/kin (failing that, business partners, fellow guild members) contacted for burial wishes (temple burial/cremation/critter nibbling to derive bare bones for a bone box), Palace courtiers step in to settle rents, disperse…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 12, 2018
…personal effects, check on reassignments of deeds/co-ownership shares, debts, etc. (etc = what we would call probating a will).
Most Waterdhavians will be suspicious if they know someone died, but don't see/hear about the Watch being called.
(Hmm. This should've been in W:DH.)— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 12, 2018
