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The crypt beneath the hill beside Emberhold. Survivors of the Night of Falling Ash carried their kin here by the thousand to bury them. Now every coffin lid has been pushed open from within.

Guardian: Morgrave the Unburied

A gravekeeper who spent his whole life burying the dead. But when he died, no one was left to bury him.

Before the Night of Falling Ash, Morgrave kept the graveyard on the hill outside Caldria's walls. Quiet work: dig, light the lantern, sing the dead to sleep. The night the capital fell, a spark of the Ember Heart flew across the sky and landed among the graves. He put it in his old iron lantern, so that the dead would not have to lie in the dark.

The survivors carried their dead up the hill without end, and Morgrave dug a grave for every one of them, never turning anyone away. The fire in his lantern kept him from ageing and from dying, year after year, generation after generation, until his spade wore down to the shaft and his back bent nearly to the ground. His last apprentice was a young man called Borin, who ran off to open a shop in Emberhold before he was paid his final wage.

Not long ago, the flame that had kept him alive for nearly three hundred years consumed him at last. Morgrave died in his hut beside a freshly dug grave, and no one was left to bury him. Only the fire in his lantern still burned beside the body. The Heart's flame seeped into his bones and woke him to work again. This time he does not dig to bury but to wake: whenever the lantern swings, the dead he laid to rest with his own hands rise and follow its light.

Who dares disturb my crypt… You will lie here forever.Morgrave the Unburied

Abilities

Fought in 2 phases, changing at 50% life. Every ability is marked on the ground before it lands.

Ability	Element	Damage	Cooldown	Phase
Raises 4 Risen Minion from the ground	Physical	–	14 s	all
Slams the ground around it (radius 4.5)	Physical	×2.2	7 s	all
Raises 6 Risen Minion from the ground	Physical	–	10 s	2+
Bone spikes along a line toward every player	Physical	×1.4	9 s	2+

Rise! Every grave in this crypt… rise!Morgrave the Unburied (phase change)

Guardian relics

35% chance per kill to drop one of these; its echoes in the Ember Depths drop them 25% of the time.