Catacombs.

Managed by the Fellowship of Memory Passing, the Catacombs are a sprawling web of tunnels, passages, tombs and chambers. Through years of wars, disasters and poor upkeep, many of the older sections of the Catacombs have been left in ruins and blocked off by cave ins.

Each Grave is made to meet specific ritualistic requirements. Funerals also have specific rituals, including the placing of a coin or symbol - known as an Obol - in the corpses mouth and cleaning of the body. Alongside this, many coffins are fitted with iron lining, locks and various other security measures to prevent non-consensual necromancy or grave robbing.

Private Crypts.

For the oldest families in Vye, or the newer elites, private Crypts can be built. These are often marked by the family crest or a similar symbol, and requires special keys or secret knowledge to gain access.

The individual graves are often personally designed by family members, often incorperating death masks and buried with personal belongings of unique significance.

Grave Lots.

Graves are split into lots throughout the catacombs. Each lot requires application to be buried within, priority often being given to those whose immediate family were buried in the same lot.

Lots are marked with specific symbols, incorperating a material and a creature. For example, the Ceramic Owl Lot, or the Silver Bear Lot.

Ash Chambers.

Not everyone wishes for a burial, and some are determined to not deserve one by the courts. However, in the Fellowship of Memory Passing, it is inexcusable to leave a corpse in its composing state without any rituals.

A middle ground has been established, allowing the Fellowship to offer cremation services. Within Ash Chambers, the body is cleansed through special flames created in a ritualistic manner and reduced to ash. The ash can then be inturned, returned to family, or released into the wind during a ceramonial Parting Justice Trial, which sees the members of the Jury and Judges return to court to see the results of their judgement if it was execution, as a sign of respect.

Etching Chambers.

These ceramonial chambers are used to prepare bodies and their final resting place. This includes cleaning the body, etching the relevant symbols into the grave markers, plotting the placement in lots and more. These chambers are often closed to the public, although occassionally the bereaved are escorted to evaluate the state.

The Mines.

Carefully dug into the hills Vye stands upon are a series of mineshafts. The mineshafts themselves do not dig far in, often being used more than anything by the old builders to create the underground heating rooms for the inner city. There are chambers set up to store equipment, house basic medical facilities, a few offices, and other essentials.

The Pits.

The mineshafts lead primarily towards the Pits, large holes dug deep into the earth that serve as quarries. Pulley systems allow for the lowering down of miners and equipment deep below ground for further excavation.

Infrastructure.

A few key parts of the cities infrastructure also lay beneath Vye. These are often sealed off from the mineshafts after building was complete, and above the Catacombs as to not disrespect the dead.

Heating Chambers.

Utilising a hypocast system, most homes and apartments in Vye derive their heat from an underground furnace that ventillates upwards, through a piping or tile pilae stack system. The furnaces are often fed through a chute attached to a chimeny, allowing heating to be controlled with a dial that adjusts the amount of fuel added to the furnace.

These heating chambers are close to the surface compared to most other underground structures, but for buildings with particularly complicated underground basements and cellars they may be built near mine shafts or the catacombs.

Sewers.

While most buildings within the city have their own bathrooms, toilets are often seperate or confined to wastepots. These pots are then placed in a chute just outside the bathroom, within a Sewer Cage. With the chute sealed tightly, excess water from the bathroom is then poured through to clean the wastepots or toilet basin, heated to sanitising standards and erradicating any built up waste. The water is then pushed through the chute and into sewage pipes, carried below ground and into the sewers.

The sewers run below the Catacombs, often intersecting with sealed off portions of the mineshafts from which they were constructed. Water is carried off and 'released back into nature'.