>>5683769Hecatomb Pillar
The cenotaph monument commemorating the Nameless that surrendered their souls in ultimate sacrifice against the Great Powers during the War. Of the many that fell, not all their remains could be recovered, with some interred elsewhere, such as in the cairns of Gravecliff or the distant desert sands of faraway Al-Ghurab. Consequently the Hecatomb honours not any one parricular individual, but the memory of collective sacrifice. Many present wreaths of flowers or observe a minute of solemn silence in contemplation. The form of the Hecatomb Pillar is a massive, featureless monolith slab in grey-black, with no visible adornment or discernible features. Nothing can be seen on the surface of this ominous landmark at all - as if the Hecatomb had been cut from the blackness of the abyss, the very Chasmata themselves. In the Sempiternal Empire it is a death-crime to deny that the Hecatomb ever occurred.
