Brotherhood of the Lantern Grave

A religious brotherhood which, in the Spirit War of the Three Fens as recited in the March, got men through contested marsh tracks with mire bells, saint ash and bound reed standards.

An order that came out of the Grey Necromancer War, made up of grave brothers, lantern sergeants, burial clerks and warpriests trained to secure corpse lines and charnel yards. A grave-route suppressing order that keeps burial ledgers, recovers what has been taken from graves and stands against the necromantic trades.

Named with it

• Brother Amory of the Lantern Grave (York
• author of Notes on Grave-Route Service)

Ties

• the other suppressing order of consequence besides the Black Lantern Brethren
• acted alongside the warpriests of Saint Frideswide's Reed Cross

At the table

Dear to hire, sent for late and disliked afterwards: so it stands with every suppressing order, those orders which bring troubled ground to quiet by a fixed procedure, and so it stands with this one. Brother Amory remarks that a suppression takes six men, of whom two do the work while four keep the line around the ground, and that the line is where the danger is. Hereabouts in the March the order is known solely by the reed men's telling of the Spirit War of the Three Fens, a telling recited before every vote on cutting ground which by old usage stays uncut. No house of its own stands in the March. It is nonetheless the only body in the realm still willing to come north for a failed burial road; and the parishes that have sent for it name the year without being asked.