“Part of your anointing is letting go of your connection with this world so that you are a blank slate for the words of the old gods. That way when you are presented to Lord Krokan, you will be nothing but prayers and the Duet of Sendoff. If you are to go before him—the old god of death—with ties to this world, longing for the living, then he will reject you as a proper offering and his rage will continue,”
