Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180327004110/@comment-29984007-20180404215238

DukeLeto7 wrote: Technical quibble. You keep referring to the outdoor monument with the visible sword and no visible bones or boxes as an "ossuary". I dunno what the cognate means in Italian, but when it's used in American English it refers to a box or monument that you put a dead person's bones into. More specifically it almost exclusively refers to the two major ossuaries in Israeli archaeology, the genuine one that belonged to Caiaphas the Jewish high priest and the one that was fraudulently attributed to James the Lesser. (We haven't had time or population to fill up most of our cemeteries to capacity, and it's been easier to just start a new cemetery elsewhere than remove existing bodies, so there's no tradition of secondary burial of bones to free up cemetery space in the US.) The issue is that there's nothing that indicates there was any kind of box or container that the undead chosen emerged from, I just assumed he just climbed out of the ground Army of Darkness style.

bone in italian is "osso" ("ossa" plural, well for the human ones, animal bones is "ossi"). an "ossario" is any intentional human bones resting place.