Undertaker
Career
Qualifications
An undertaker has to be unflinching when confronted with a corpse, for one. Also, they must view death as sad, but unavoidable. The grief of the deceased's loved ones must be a high priority for them, and they must hold a certain level of respect for others.
Career Progression
One often gets promoted from digging graves to dealing with the deceased's family and friends. At the highest positions, they organize everything needed for a funeral.
Payment & Reimbursement
Undertakers often make a medium to upper middle class income.
Other Benefits
This job is an easy way for Necromancers to pay for the arcane items they need in their craft. Should an undertaker be able to raise the dead, they often offer an additional service in case a loved one happened to be far away, and couldn't reach the deceased before they die.
Perception
Purpose
To ready the deceased for their final rites, and arrange their funerals.
Social Status
People often find it macabre to see an undertaker outside of work, as they summon morbid associations with death.
Operations
Tools
Surgical tools, embalming tools, makeup.
For the making of coffins: a hammer, nails.
Materials
Planks for coffins, and the hammer and nails that the undertaker often keeps in the drawers of a woodworking table. Also, urns that were supplied by a clayworker. Or in the case of wealthy nobles requiring a golden one: blacksmith.
Workplace
Often a store. They often sell flowers for use in funerals in front, in addition to grave markers. In the back of the store, they often keep a metal or stone slab to prepare the bodies for their last rites. In the better equipped stores, there is also a woodworking area to produce coffins. Urns are often stored here too.
Provided Services
Should a family lose a member, then they can come to the undertaker to arrange the funeral. The undertaker can arrange for the digging of a grave, grave markers, coffins, urns, and any religious icons that the deceased wished to be buried with.
Dangers & Hazards
The undertaker might catch diseases from bodies in a certain state of decomposition. Injury from creating the in-house coffins are also common.
Type
Religious
Legality
This profession is perfectly legal. However there are a few specific laws relating to this profession.
Undertakers are mandated to inform the authorities if they suspect murder or foul play of any other kind. They are also mandated to report any incident involving Undead. Should a guard or other authority figure of the like want to search their shop, then they are legally mandated to allow it. However, the guard should present a special warrant for this when visiting the undertaker.
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