Blackfeather Woods In the middle with the beggars and rejects

Oh. Okay. That was. . .not quite what she expected. Then again, hadn't she begged Vaati to teach her about the Void, once upon a time? Sure, there had been an impending war, but kids were always curious. Rowan was as sharp as any child; naturally, he'd want to know.

You mean like the bodies that are left behind? Maegi asked, blinking slowly at the pup. Because souls after death go to the Void, but not bodies. They stay here to rejoin the earth. Peryite takes them.

Perhaps it wasn't quite canon within the Brotherhood lore that Peryite, indeed, was the keeper of dead and decaying bodies. But in Maegi's mind, Peryite was just that, and she would impart that wisdom, however misguided or biased, onto young Rowan. It was all she knew to do in this moment.

When bodies are dead, they rot, she continued. Peryite is lord of decay; Peryite will take them down into the earth when they've disintegrated into nothing. That happened with my boys, she murmured, a sudden lump in her throat. Nirgali and Ninazu. They joined Peryite quite early.

With a small cough, ducking her chin a little bit, she continued, glancing toward the rough direction of Nightcaller Temple. Bring the body to the place where we met the other day, Maegi explained. Lay it down by the Altar as a tribute to Peryite. Peryite will reward you in some way, I'm sure.