Emberfield Cemetery was originally established as the final resting place for the city's prosperous founding merchant families. It quickly became a stark reflection of Emberfield's own stratified society, where even in death, status was paramount.

The wealthiest families engaged in a posthumous competition, commissioning ever more elaborate mausoleums and tombs. This exclusive section, a testament to their enduring pride and wealth, became derisively known as The Gilded Cage. Access to this prestigious area was a matter of proud bureaucratic gatekeeping, strictly reserved for the elite.

However, the devastating Shadow War and the selfless sacrifice of Archmage Ariel irrevocably shifted the city's focus. With resources diverted and priorities changed, the cemetery's outer sections fell into widespread neglect and disrepair.

This decay provided fertile ground for an illicit underground economy to flourish within its walls. Unlicensed vendors and smugglers, keen to bypass city tariffs and official currency exchanges, established a hidden market. Known as the Boneyard Bazaar, it thrives under the concealing canopy of the great oak, its loud haggling whispers a stark contrast to the quiet dignity of the dead.

Today, the cemetery exists in an uneasy and desecrated state, a testament to its varied past and contentious present.