Yeah so they mainly cremated their dead, have a real stick up their ass about necromancy. Plus it sort ties in with their reverence for fire and their proximity to red mountain, ash being quite significant. Necrom was like a giant cemetery, a necropolis.
Most of what I know comes from three sources, Ancestors and the Dunmer The Doors of the Spirit and Incident in Necrom. Factor in the ash pits we see in Morrowind and Raven Rock and all things point to cremation. I think. The Ashlanders don't, though, iirc.
I think the major difference between third era Dark Elven funerary customs comes from the absence of the ghost fence. I think before the blight it was custom for clans and families to maintain their own ghost fences by donating ancestral bones, a voluntary thing. The great ghost fence made donating remains to it rather than private ones more socially acceptable. After the events of TES III maintaining the great ghost fence was no longer necessary, but the eruption of red mountain and Argonian invasion has seemed to have put an end to the tradition entirely.
It could be fun to explore that old tradition, for the deceased to leave a finger bone for the family ghost fence in his or her will. But I don't recall evidence of this still being customary in 4E 201.
Edit: lemme see what Savants have to say...
... Ahh, not a thing. Sorry.
So yeah, cremation and possible relic donation for family shrine should you wish to restart the old tradition of ghost fence. I think ESO has a few burial chambers and even a necropolis. You wanna me go and take screenshots, lore the shit outta this?
Yeah so they mainly cremated their dead, have a real stick up their ass about necromancy. Plus it sort ties in with their reverence for fire and their proximity to red mountain, ash being quite significant. Necrom was like a giant cemetery, a necropolis.
Most of what I know comes from three sources, Ancestors and the Dunmer The Doors of the Spirit and Incident in Necrom. Factor in the ash pits we see in Morrowind and Raven Rock and all things point to cremation. I think. The Ashlanders don't, though, iirc.
I think the major difference between third era Dark Elven funerary customs comes from the absence of the ghost fence. I think before the blight it was custom for clans and families to maintain their own ghost fences by donating ancestral bones, a voluntary thing. The great ghost fence made donating remains to it rather than private ones more socially acceptable. After the events of TES III maintaining the great ghost fence was no longer necessary, but the eruption of red mountain and Argonian invasion has seemed to have put an end to the tradition entirely.
It could be fun to explore that old tradition, for the deceased to leave a finger bone for the family ghost fence in his or her will. But I don't recall evidence of this still being customary in 4E 201.
Edit: lemme see what Savants have to say...
... Ahh, not a thing. Sorry.
So yeah, cremation and possible relic donation for family shrine should you wish to restart the old tradition of ghost fence. I think ESO has a few burial chambers and even a necropolis. You wanna me go and take screenshots, lore the shit outta this?