i've gotten to c2 e70 in my current mighty nein rewatch, and listening to Caduceus tell the story of how his family is tied to Melora (3:31:05) after everything we've learned through Downfall and especially what the Hells heard from the Matron of Ravens in c3 e109 got me thinking...
is the body that the Raven Queen had Clay, Stone, and Dust ask for Melora to help dispose of the body of the prior good of death?!?!?
they were given the task the day after her ascension, were told it was the body of a hero of the war, and "his body could not be maintained within a city for reasons that are lost, he had to be vanished"
the gods know there was someone else before the current goddess of death, but can only feel that loss in abstract without true memory of him. they all essentially knew something had happened and that the Matron was new but not the specifics. and at least a few of them seemed to not be all that fond of this newcomer
so my theory is that she wanted to use the burial of this hero as an opportunity to rebuild some familial bonds
the day after she came into being the Matron of Ravens essentially went to Melora and said "hey i have a super special body of a war hero that i need some help dealing with, any ideas?"
and the Wildmother turned his burial into gifts for three of the other gods in turn: to remind the Changebringer that nature is infinite, the Archeart that nature is beautiful, and the Allhammer that nature is the origin of material
it makes sense to me that any mortally-accessible remains that would come from the death/replacement of a *god* would have some sort of magical properties to begin with, so that could've even helped jumpstart the temples that were created
anyways. that's just a theory :)
