Talk:Wall of Light/@comment-140.0.40.133-20130421080345/@comment-5607198-20130421231024

theres actually a few reasons for this, and some are in-universe!

whale oil is too short to use it on dead folks

to cremate those bodies, you'd need 1. a lot of space 2. fuel for the fires (wet bodies dont burn that well) 3. people to run the cremation (and if its a giant pit, that means not only the burning, but also cleaning out ashes) 4. a populace not concerned about the horrific smell of burning manflesh on the wind. all of these things are significantly hard to come by

also, a nice utilitarian cremation center (think nazi camp stuff) would actually look LESS terrible than bodies strewn about the place. It's also impossible with Dunwall's technology, since they seem to have no notion of gas fires.