It's tradition. The pagans used to burn their dead. Christian burial is how we operate. I think other religions do, as well. It's how we respect their passing. Something about returning dust to dust.
[ D'Artagnan mostly takes religion as it comes. It doesn't play a huge role in his life, but he was raised in a place permeated by religion. It's left its mark on him. He after all gave his father a Christian burial. ]
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If it were up to me, it'd be pyre for everyone.
Make my life easier for once.
Though the way everywhere here sticks their dead in the ground and throw up little monuments everywhere is just as creepy, if you ask me.
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[ D'Artagnan mostly takes religion as it comes. It doesn't play a huge role in his life, but he was raised in a place permeated by religion. It's left its mark on him. He after all gave his father a Christian burial. ]
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Most demons choose a corpse over the trouble of a mage.
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Superstitious people might tell you otherwise, but I've never seen it.
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Although that one isn't the one you mean, is it?
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I don’t even know what I’d think of what it looks like now.
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Or was that there before?
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If you mean a bell tower, Notre Dame has been standing for three hundred years, but she's not made of iron.
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All I know is it looks very tall.
It's in almost every picture of Paris I've ever looked up.
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Show me, the next time we see each other. Perhaps it’s new.