flames of purification

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Death, And How We Give It To You

So, in reader questions of the day: I swear I saw an entry for the levels of execution, ranging from kill current instantiation, restore, to kill them, their back ups and the servers they rode in on. Am I misremembering? And since I don't recall any such thing

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A Note: On the Flames of Purification

This is a note providing some background on one of the traditional Imperial methods of execution, namely, the flames of purification (as described here) for an ongoing comment thread here (relevant part quoted below): Let’s also not forget that the eldrae themselves have had a historical penchant for burning