Nevarra City didn't throw the Mortalitasi into total chaos, since there's a relatively clear hierarchy of seniority and apprenticeship that makes succession fairly straightforward. But they are a bit of a mess because quite a few of them died, and so while there are people to step into roles, they may not all be fully prepared or best suited. The Prelate was at first missing, and so his post remained vacant for some time. But he was finally pronounced dead and succeeded by a man named Nestor Marinos, an uninspiring but inoffensive older man from a prominent noble lineage, with many decades of mediocre but dedicated service under his belt, who's generally understood to be a sort of interim prelate for the time being, and someone who will be heavily influenced by his advisors. It's definitely a time of transition and rebuilding, which can always offer opportunities for exploitation by the ambitious or devious.
There are a number of Mortalitasi unaccounted for, but because of the chaos and abandonment of the city, it's not clear who defected vs who died.
There is some suspicion of the Mortalitasi, particularly in the Pentaghast court. Aurelia hasn't cut them out altogether, and on the surface it might appear that things at court continue as normal, but she has quietly been very particular in which Mortalitasi she is willing to work with and allow in positions of influence, and has not followed the late King Markus's practice of surrounding himself with Mortalitasi as his closest advisors, instead keeping a more diverse council. She attributes this simply to the need to hear advice on a wide range of subjects and ensure she is informed about the lives of all Nevarrans, but there are whispers that she distrusts the order. (The whole business with Markus having been an animated corpse for who knows how long is known only to Aurelia and her inner circle.) Within the order itself, there is suspicion that Aurelia does have agents among them investigating, but nobody knows who or if it's actually true.
Public opinion is mixed. Only a small minority blame the Mortalitasi for what happened, but there have been more widespread grumblings about how the order failed the people, let their dead be co-opted and misused, and didn't do enough to help stop the attack and protect the people or their ancestors. But in terms of overall beliefs, there hasn't been any real lasting change. There are certainly people who might be too traumatized by the attack to be comfortable resuming typical Nevarran practices, and there will be a temporary spike in pyre funerals. There will also be extra precautions taken by many to try to build more secure crypts and necropoli, and more requests for protective magical warding of some sort or practical barriers to ensure dead can't get out to attack the living again. But in general their beliefs/customs are too deeply ingrained to be permanently altered by this and people are more distressed and angry at the mistreatment of their dead.
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There are a number of Mortalitasi unaccounted for, but because of the chaos and abandonment of the city, it's not clear who defected vs who died.
There is some suspicion of the Mortalitasi, particularly in the Pentaghast court. Aurelia hasn't cut them out altogether, and on the surface it might appear that things at court continue as normal, but she has quietly been very particular in which Mortalitasi she is willing to work with and allow in positions of influence, and has not followed the late King Markus's practice of surrounding himself with Mortalitasi as his closest advisors, instead keeping a more diverse council. She attributes this simply to the need to hear advice on a wide range of subjects and ensure she is informed about the lives of all Nevarrans, but there are whispers that she distrusts the order. (The whole business with Markus having been an animated corpse for who knows how long is known only to Aurelia and her inner circle.) Within the order itself, there is suspicion that Aurelia does have agents among them investigating, but nobody knows who or if it's actually true.
Public opinion is mixed. Only a small minority blame the Mortalitasi for what happened, but there have been more widespread grumblings about how the order failed the people, let their dead be co-opted and misused, and didn't do enough to help stop the attack and protect the people or their ancestors. But in terms of overall beliefs, there hasn't been any real lasting change. There are certainly people who might be too traumatized by the attack to be comfortable resuming typical Nevarran practices, and there will be a temporary spike in pyre funerals. There will also be extra precautions taken by many to try to build more secure crypts and necropoli, and more requests for protective magical warding of some sort or practical barriers to ensure dead can't get out to attack the living again. But in general their beliefs/customs are too deeply ingrained to be permanently altered by this and people are more distressed and angry at the mistreatment of their dead.