...is truly a beautiful Lady's place of rest.
The Grey Lady, herself, is in fact, laid to rest here.
The peaceful park-like grounds are quite extensive; and besides the cemetery's main chapel building, there are 3 other buildings - mausoleums - on this lot. Each one holds a different secret - meant to entice your Sims into increasing their fun and social skills whilst visiting their dearly departed friends and family members.
The great graveyard set @shastakiss released got me inspired to finally start working on the cemetery for Brightmaple! There’s no inhabitants yet, all the graves are decorative thus far, and only one corner of the lot is actually decorated. I’m happy with how it turned out though! It was totally aimless and 100% looks decent thanks to excellent CC.
I’m starting a new neighbourhood and transferring some favourite lots into it and thought while I’m at it, someone might also have a use for them. This is a community lot owned by the royal family of Pleasantview for their burial needs. I love walking old cemeteries in real life and keep a ton of them for my sims to do the same. All urns are decorative and all the pictures of my sims have been removed from the lot but are pictured so you can see how I had it set up instead of bare walls. It was an owned and played lot, so definitely use the clean installer to install it. Pic spam below
Life at the palace continues to be drama filled, as long held tensions boil over. Celeste’s heir Anastacia observes the dramatic change in her now widowed mother regarding Anastacia’s own daughters. The long suffering princess has always known her mother prefers her grandchildren over her own children, but the extent of this near worship of Jadienne and her fiance has gotten under her skin. Anastacia and her almost completely maternally ignored brother Hunter have often joked about their mother’s distance to them, chalking it up to the early loss of their older sister in the civil war, or the rejection Celeste felt at the hands of her own parents. The queen often takes out Anastacia’s daughter Reona, while making repeated mentions of the girl being her heir, causing media stirs and repeated headaches for Anastacia. Now in her grief, Celeste is feeding previously snubbed Jadienne the attention she has always craved, and leaving Anastacia to once again explain to her daughter that Grandma can still never be trusted long term.
When Reona finally arrives at the palace two days later than she had been requested, and filled with the notion that she is somehow exempt from Grandma’s forced family reunion, Anastacia is forced to bring another daughter back to reality. The queen has revoked her promise to Reona of four to six years of freedom and sweatpants, and ordered her back to royal duty.
The princess does try to explain to her mother the unfairness of her actions, and the misery she has brought upon her and her brother all these years, only to be once again rejected. The dead prince and princess will always beat the living ones with Celeste.
Leaving her mother to stew in her own anger Anastacia relieves her frustrations with her only grandchild.
Consort Hunter and Prince Conner are interred at the most recently renovated royal cemetery with the entirety of the royal family in attendance.
Celeste has previously interred her eldest daughter Adrienne, her sister Serena and brother in law Shawn.
Hunter’s husband Ralph makes a short speech, followed by the Queen.
Afterword, Celeste excuses herself to visit her husband and children in peace, while the rest of the family scatters.
Still angry about being called back to serve, Reona studies the portrait and urn of Queen Adrian, the first queen of ancient Crystal Cove. Will she one day prove to be as admired a leader, or buckle under the pressure? Some days she isn’t sure.
Mystical fog drapes the cemetery as the magical wards protect the remains of her ancestors. The names have long eroded from the old stones, but are republished on historical plaques, guiding visitors through century after century of royal remains. All distant relatives of Reona who once stood where she stood, and felt the burden she feels weighing her down. Her own mother seems oblivious to this weight, even though she will inherit the crown first, so Reona walks among the stones alone, pondering her place in history.
Now charged with the defense of Crystal Cove after its separation from the Empire, Apeiron Maricourt turns to history to help him manage the present.
He greets his half-sister Reye, now the future Queen Consort for a meeting set up by the queen. It is a tour that only the monarch and her heir will take in the future, and its content is only known by four, now five sims in the entire country. So Reye drinks a potion that prevents her from speaking about this to anyone who does not know about it, and follows Apeiron to the now, much more magical plot of land.
There is the general plots for early residents of the isle
Followed by the Wenlock tombs, now with plaques and photos for tourists.
The non-royals Evanses that fought in the Demon Wars
The old Evans family of Anakin 20 and 21.
The unclaimed graves for which there are no records or names, just mysterious dates, and for some reason, the grave of Chris Indie’s mother.
The well worn graves of the founding family and their eight children.
And then the tour went into the crypt. The air seemed more magical, and a strange power ran through Reye as she wandered the grounds, that she couldn’t quite place.
The first floor was home to recent additions, the cremated remains of the royal or important residents of Crystal Cove. Reye’s wife’s elder sister was buried here when she was murdered at the start of the civil war.
The second floor of the mausoleum was vastly different. It hummed with magic, and a few high level witches wandered the halls, avoiding making eye contact. Reye audibly gasped when she saw the old charms on the walls, the markings in the stone that cried against every rule of magic Reogus had taught his daughter. Blood magic! Ancient, awful power that drew from the events and persons in a physical space and converted it into magical potential.
This was what the Queen and Apeiron were hiding, something that any witch or warlock would agree was irresponsible. However, they were at war, and centuries ago had absorbed Belladonna and all of it’s relevant magical teachings, whereas Pleasantview’s magical community was much closer aligned with the demonic, with only a handful of old witch teachings remaining. Crystal Cove sat on land with over a millennia of history, and as a point of pride, maintained the largest DNA repository ever attempted, with DNA samples from several of the people buried on the land, as well as their descendants. This database had once been used to identify the Empress’ lost son, and was turned over to Apeiron once Celeste took power. The country had tried to keep the monarchs in a constitutional role before Celeste, and only after war and the execution of their last prime minster had power been returned to the royals. Now with a powerful spell, and the old bloodlines, Crystal Cove stood a chance of surviving its exit from the empire. Power was drawn from those who rested there, and the powerful events that had taken place on its soil. Celeste’s oldest daughter added to it, just as Celeste and Reye and their children’s children would one day do so as well. Once Crystal Cove had tried to break away from its royal family, now their very defenses counted on their survival, and only the monarch, head wizard, and heir would ever be able to manipulate it..
As an apology for all who rested there, Reye summoned all of her earth magic to create a new, living tree that would hopefully grow strong and tall to give shelter to any who sought it.
