In the former Magic Kingdom, the procedures for honoring the dead were extremely complicated.
The Kingdom's funerals originated with the royal family. It was said that, in the beginning, a queen had been reluctant to part with one of her Fairy familiars, so she held a funeral that lasted seven days and seven nights. Speeches and flower offerings were merely the appetizer, while performances by Soul-Calming Hymn choirs and mourning bands were only extras. What followed included personally carving memorial stones, weaving wreaths together, playing recorded images, invoking celestial phenomena... and countless other exaggerated procedures. It was said that even after seven days, the queen had still been crying nonstop and had even wanted to extend it for another seven days, prompting numerous Royal Court nobles, and even the Gem Scepter, to offer their remonstrations. Only then did she finally stop.
These memorial procedures were all recorded afterward and became a reference for every citizen of the Magic Kingdom. Depending on the deceased's status, family circumstances, and how deeply their relatives cherished them, people decided how elaborate a funeral or memorial service ought to be. The most excessive cases even fully replicated the queen's seven-day-and-seven-night ceremony to express their grief.
Later, as the times changed, the Kingdom's population steadily grew while the pace of life also accelerated. Ancient rituals could not adapt to modern life and naturally had to be revised. Thus, after several rounds of simplification and deletion, the widely practiced memorial procedure now recognized by the Civil Governance Institute had been reduced to only three steps.
The first step was grave sweeping. Whether or not the grave had fallen into disrepair, mourners were expected to clean the area around it before paying their respects, using breeze and moisture Spell Formulas to remove the dust around the grave. At