Ancient Xi people

Funerals


In ancient times, when a Xi person died, some of their bones would be taken and their life would be drawn on them. These bones would then be shared between the children of the person if there are any. Once the children died, the inherited bone would replace their own bone, and in turn their life would be drawn on the bone. As such, Xi people have a very extended genealogy system. Most of the time, Xi people are interred with their horses next to them.



Xi people use tombstones for both Xi and non-Xi people, but only non-Xi have their lives written on their stones. The Xi tombstones have a Xi symbol engraved on them. Clan tombstones are commonly found on the Tombstone trail. They're recognizeable by the esoteric patterns drawn on them by shamans. Most of the time, clan stones are the tombs of families of warriors who fell in combat.

If a Xi died of a certain disease, they would be incinerated to prevent epidemics, and a stone would replace the inherited bone.