Candulhallow's Funeral Arrangements
Candulhallow’s Funeral Arrangements was a city-sponsored business in Baldur’s Gate that specialized in the transportation and occasionally sale of of corpses to cemeteries or temples. It also aided in some smuggling endeavors and occasionally sold bodies to certain Baldurian enterprises.
Location
The business was located on the southern region of Heapside, in the Lower City of Baldur’s Gate.[3]
Staff
As the name suggested, the business was run by the moon elf Candulhallow family and their staff of porters. As of the late 15th century DR, it was led by the family matriarch, Leylenna.
Services
Candulhallow’s employed a small fleet of wagons and hand carts to haul recently deceased individuals from their location of passing to graveyards outside the city, or sometimes, the Shrine of the Suffering a few streets north. They received regular compensation from city officials and were regularly tipped by those who grieved the deaths of their “clientele”.
Additionally, the family operated a discreet smuggling operation for the Guild. They often transported illicit goods within bundles dressed to look like bodies covered in burial shrouds, while selling the actual corpses to cult-members and necromancers. These crimes against the Baldurian dead were not well known among the city’s populace.
History
At some point in the Year of Three Ships Sailing, 1492 DR, Leylenna Candulhallow began to steal the most fresh, least-desecrated cadavers for her own personal experiments.
Additional Notes (Descent into Avernus)
For as long as anyone can remember, the moon elves of the Candulhallow family have managed the city’s small fleet of corpse carts. Though family members rarely push carts themselves anymore, their terse agents are a constant sight around the city, picking up the dead and using hand-drawn wagons to haul their shrouded loads to the Shrine of the Suffering or outlying cemeteries, funded by city stipends and tips from grieving loved ones.
In secret, the Candulhallows have grown quietly rich off a variety of death-related scams. Chief among these is a secret smuggling arrangement with Nine-Fingers Keene to conceal contraband in corpses’ funeral wrappings, which the guards and toll collectors never check. Even less savory is the harvesting and sale of corpses or their parts for the city’s cultists and necromancers. Chief among these latter customers is the family matriarch, Leylenna Candulhallow, a neutral evil female moon elf mage who takes the choicest and rarest of the deceased for her experiments, replacing them with pauper’s corpses and weighted coffins. Should any of the family’s misdealing come to light, it would doubtlessly shock the city to the core and potentially force Leylenna to reveal the elaborate necromantic masterpiece—an evolution of both art and life—that she’s been slowly patching together for months in her basement.