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Blood for Mortar
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We've all heard the Aesop about how "you can't get blood out of a stone". Apparently nobody told the architect of this building, who thinks blood and gore is a great construction material to mix with stone. Using Human Resources, their blood, bones, or other parts are added to the building. It may become a Human Architecture Horror (unless those aren't corpses), or is otherwise just creepy. This is usually done to show how Obviously Evil the creator or owner of the house is. Or maybe they believe or are from a culture that takes nothing to waste, not even corpses. Either way, it's almost always a source of Nightmare Fuel. Can be a form of Sadistic Choice. Also a form of Powered by a Forsaken Child, though they aren't alive... hopefully. See Skeletons in the Coat Closet or Genuine Human Hide for when human body parts are used for clothing. Compare Meat Moss, where the walls have flesh grown on them. Compare with Human Architecture Horror, where humans have been literally fused with a building post-construction, and Constructive Body Disposal, where it's a convenient way to hide a body rather than using it as part of the construction. |
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Guild Wars 2: Almost everything built by the minions of Lich King Palawa Joko in Vabbi is made entirely of large bones, many of them human. This includes an enormous bone wall separating Joko's kingdom proper from the no-man's land of the Crystal Desert. | |
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In a YouTube Poop by DaThings, Crunch'n Crunch's Crunchity Crunches, Cap'n Crunch is horrified to discover that the Crunchlings' home city is made entirely out of Crunchling bodies. | |
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Eternal Darkness: The Pillar of Flesh is constructed by The Ancients to facilitate their entry into our world. It is built of people smothered with concrete. | |
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In Red Queen, the blood of Arvens is used to make Silver/Newblood gift-repelling Silent Stone. | |
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Shew in Fist of the North Star as part of his Face Death with Dignity carried the capstop to the top of Thouzer's pyramid, then as he's executed, the stone crashes his body, completing the construction. | |
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Transformers: Generation 1: The Constructicon foreman Scrapper likes to take the bodies of fallen Autobots and make them part of whatever construction he's currently working on. Worse yet, he often relies on fellow Constructicon Mixmaster to recycle chopped up bits of former Autobot in his drum with acid and produce a very sadistic and depraved form of concrete, and Mixmaster enjoys cackling about it the whole time. At least Scrapper is a quietly psychotic engineer. | |
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Discussed and Defied in The Ten Commandments (1956). When Moses' fellow Egyptians ask why he will not let a Hebrew woman die during the construction of a temple, he states that "blood makes poor mortar" and frees her. | |
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In the backstory of World of Warcraft, The old Orcish Horde built a massive road on their homeworld of Draenor known as the Path of Glory, constructed from the bones of the victims of a genocide the Orcs waged on a race known as the Draenei. The Path can still be seen in the Hellfire Peninsula zone, the first area of the broken remains of Draenor known as Outland, which is the main setting of the first expansion The Burning Crusade. | |
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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd Edition: The Ritual "Father W'soran's Architect" creates a 50-foot stone tower to the spellcaster's specifications. Its ingredients include a Stone Troll's skull and a map of the tower drawn in a mason's blood. | |
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Evolve Idle has several universes one can reset into, one of which is an evil universe where standard building materials like lumber and plywood are replaced with bones and boneweave obtained by "slaughtering the weak". Hell worlds in other universes have demons, which follow this trend. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, striking certain walls in Windhelm may produce blood. No explanation is given, nor is it even mentioned. It is likely a bug, however, given the cities history and Nords general dislike of elves, it wouldn't be surprising if a couple were packed in the walls and left to a gruesome fate. | |
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Invoked in 300: A Persian emissary sees that the Spartans have stacked up the bodies of the Persian soldiers, and they tell him their blood served as mortar. | |
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The World of Ice & Fire mentions that, during a particularly vicious war between The North and The Vale, one Belthasar Bolton owned a "Pink Pavilion", fashioned from the flayed skins of a hundred men. The history notes that this may just be a Vale-based legend to demonize their foe; but as far as House Bolton goes, it's fairly par for the course. | |
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In Dark Apostle, the Ghethsemenacht is a tower made of recycled Imperial buildings and glued together with human puree, built as a monument to the Chaos Gods. One of the slaves working on it discovers this when he finds a human tooth in the mortar. | |
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The Chinese legend of the bell casting sees use in Ushio and Tora, where it is used to forge the Beast Spear. | |
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Monster House The house became possessed as a result of the owners's wife falling into the house's foundation and getting buried in cement. The kids find a shrine to her in the basement of the house and accidentally break a lair of cement which reveals her skeleton. | |
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In Shadows Linger, The Black Keep is being built by minions of The Dominator using fresh corpses they buy from unscrupulous people in the nearby city It appears to be made of black stone, but during one foray into it, Shed gets a better look and sees corpses frozen into the stone. | |
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Oxventure: In one Dungeons & Dragons campaign, titled 'Hammer Time', the party come upon an enchanted hammer belonging to the legendary Ethelfrith the Builder, allowing them to command his building crew of (now) 60 undead skeletons. Luke's character, Dob instructs a group of skeletons to build an orphanage after they accidentally tear down the old one, which they do by using stone from a quarry ... and the orphans as the mortar. Turns out, the skeletons have a curse on them that causes them to obey any command given by the hammer's wielder, but in the worst way possible. Crosses over with Literal Genie, as learning this makes the party much warier of how they word requests, which just made the DM more able to comedically make the skeletons more emotionally hurtful. | |
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Lethal Weapon 3: The Big Bad demonstrates how vile he is when he tosses a subordinate that failed him into a pile of concrete being poured as a house's foundation, holds him down until he drowns, and continues pouring concrete so the man will be buried in the foundation. | |
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Historia Brittonum: When the building materials for Vortigern's new fortress miraculously vanish each night, a soothsayer tells Vortigern that only sprinkling the walls with the blood of "a child without a father" can break the curse, and Vortigern is ready to do that. However, the boy Ambrosius procured for this purpose can evade sacrifice thanks to his prophetic skills. | |
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In EverQuest, in the Wakening Lands, the Giants of Kael Drakkel will threaten to use your bones for mortar when you fight them. | |
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In God of War, the temple that contains Pandora's Box also contains the tombs of its architect and his family- apparently the gods required their sacrifice for the temple's construction. Some of the puzzles found within require the family members' skulls as keys. | |
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In the Ravenloft D&D setting, the House of Lament became cursed when a former owner had a young woman buried alive in its foundation, ostensibly because it was required (but in truth because he was a sadistic creep). | |
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In The Secret World, the headmaster of Innsmouth Academy refutes the rumour that the school has a skeleton in every closet, he proudly declares that the skeletons are bricked into the walls. The school installs the corpses of mages into the walls and foundations to bolster its magical defences and the power they have to work with. | |
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Final Fantasy V: Exdeath's castle is made of necromantically reanimated corpses. | |
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Thirteen Storeys: Reclusive, sociopathic billionaire Tobias Fell has Banyan Court specifically to his specifications, whilst also burying many of the workers and other people he decides to dispose of (such as disagreeable business partners) in the foundations and walls of the building. This is entirely designed to create a "spiritual faraday Cage" to protect him from the ghosts of his victims instead passing their vengeance off on other innocent people. | |
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In Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy, Megatron and Shockwave construct the spaceship Nemesis out of bodies of countless Decepticon troopers, as well as powering it with their harvested sparks. | |
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The Rotblood Norscans of Vermintide II used this for at least some of their construction, and the characters do not react well to discovering that fact. | |
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According to Always Coming Home, some people in the Valley (and everyone in two of the towns) mix some of a slaughtered animal's blood with clay, to be used later for making bricks. | |
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In The Left Hand of Darkness, an Earthman notices all the bridges in Karhide have keystones set with pinkish mortar. Turns out they believe an arch will fall without a bloodbond. They used to mix the mortar with human blood and bones, but these days, animal substitutes are used. | |
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