Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday (although I had a break last week, I was away on a short much-needed holiday !) They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from 
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The prompt this week is - "After the Battle"
*In your setting, what happens to all the bodies on the battlefield once the killing is over ? Are there even any bodies ? Are they left to rot or buried in mass graves ? Is there a truce for both sides to bury their dead ? Do the winners desecrate the remains of their foes, or dispose of them with honour ? Are trophy monuments set up or other rituals performed ?
Also, a snippet of useless information for the day; in the Napoleonic period, bone was frequently used where we would now use plastic, e.g. for buttons. Old battlefields were a popular source of bone that had weathered for a couple of years. If anyone asked, of course it was bone from horses.....*
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
Guidelines
I stole these guidelines straight from
- Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
- Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
- Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
- Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
- Prompt replies can be any length.
Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:
It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.