Graveyard

Rosewick Graveyard contains several centuries of the town's history. Many old family names found on the headstones still belong to people living in Rosewick today, while others have disappeared entirely. Dates, family connections and inscriptions on the older graves can occasionally contradict official records preserved elsewhere in town.

The oldest section predates many surviving municipal records. Several graves have become unreadable, while others bear unfamiliar symbols or markings whose original meanings have been forgotten. Some belong to old witch or hunter bloodlines, though nothing on the stones openly identifies them as such.

A handful of old family crypts stand throughout the cemetery. Most are locked, damaged or rarely opened, and generations of belongings, burial records, letters or other forgotten objects may remain inside. The chapel also preserves old funeral registers that can sometimes reveal information missing from Rosewick's official archives.

Witches may find the graveyard particularly sensitive to Spirit. Generations of death, grief and memory have left countless echoes behind, but sensing something among the graves does not necessarily mean a conscious ghost is present. Some spirits may communicate, while others leave only fragments of emotion, memory or sensation.

The Open Graves

Someone has been opening graves in Rosewick Cemetery.

It began with a single disturbed burial in one of the older sections of the graveyard. Within weeks, several more were discovered. The graves had been carefully opened during the night and closed again afterward, sometimes well enough that the disturbance was not noticed immediately.

The bodies remain exactly where they were buried.

What is missing are the things buried with them.

A wedding ring. A photograph. A pendant. An old pocket watch. Small personal possessions with little obvious monetary value have disappeared, while more valuable objects have sometimes been left untouched.

The graves do not appear to have been chosen randomly. Some belong to people who died decades apart and whose families have no obvious connection. Cemetery records, old obituaries and family histories may reveal patterns between the dead—but different leads may point toward very different explanations.

Whoever is responsible appears to know what they are looking for and which grave contains it.