Post by ST Joe on Sept 8, 2010 23:32:25 GMT -8
St. Vitus Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in the city. What started out as the parish cemetery for the St. Vitus Church, grew into a sizable cemetery plot as a result of the need to bury civil war dead. Long closed to new burials, the headstones, monuments and crypts have weathered with age. Some have displaced, some worn away, and yet still others proudly tell who is buried there, even if the stories of the lives they led are lost. Not a few of the elder kindred of The City have graves marking the supposed site of their mortal remains.
Amid the gravestones and mausoleums, St. Vitus Church rises in ruins, its limestone overgrown with Ivy, and tree limbs passing through the window openings. The church was ruined in the Civil War and never rebuilt, standing as a monument to the devastation of war.
St. Vitus Cemetery lies along the border between The City and Sunnydale, and for this reason, there is a real sense of separate identity between Sunnydale and The City.
Though not enforced as an Elysium, by long tradition, St. Vitus cemetery has represented neutral ground between kindred, where violence is prohibited. The Old Church has been the site of many negotiations and meetings between Kindred rivals, and even the Prince has been known to conduct solemn business within the decaying walls.
Amid the gravestones and mausoleums, St. Vitus Church rises in ruins, its limestone overgrown with Ivy, and tree limbs passing through the window openings. The church was ruined in the Civil War and never rebuilt, standing as a monument to the devastation of war.
St. Vitus Cemetery lies along the border between The City and Sunnydale, and for this reason, there is a real sense of separate identity between Sunnydale and The City.
Though not enforced as an Elysium, by long tradition, St. Vitus cemetery has represented neutral ground between kindred, where violence is prohibited. The Old Church has been the site of many negotiations and meetings between Kindred rivals, and even the Prince has been known to conduct solemn business within the decaying walls.