Solemn Monuments

The Solemn Monuments are a series of memorials located around Lake Cyprus dedicated to the Rationalist and Royalist Corrapaison soldiers and civilians who died during the Corrapaison Civil War. Carved into 305 stone monoliths are the names of each person who died as a result of the conflict. As an intentional display of neutrality, the names are listed in alphabetical order in Common. Each 10 ft (3 m) tall, 2 ft (0.6 m) deep, and 3 foot (0.9 m) wide monolith is placed near the shores of Lake Cyprus with a side facing inward toward the lake with the other facing away. The lake-facing side of each monolith bares the names of the memorialized, and the out-facing side bares an inscription which dedicates the memorial to the deceased and states the tragedy of the war.

History
A memorial to the civil war and those it claimed was commissioned by the Treaty of the Lake. Weeks later, the group established to oversee the memorial's construction approved of a design, and work was underway. Approval to completion of construction took twelve months.

Symbolism
Many of the design choices of the memorial contain specific, symbolic meaning behind them. The number of individual monoliths, 305, represent the total number of days the civil war was fought over. The names inscribed face the lake and each other, representing the reality that a waring people must reunite and face the consequence of the past, as well as reconciling by having the courage to face one another again. The outward-facing side of the monoliths that contain the dedication can be easily read from afar, just as history can be learned by an observer looking from the outside. But, to understand the full consequence of the conflict, an observer must cross into the circle of names, entering the still active grief and reunion, showing that history and its consequences live on forever into the future.

Dedication
The dedication inscribed on each monolith reads as follows: "'We are the bereaved, not the fallen. We are the survivors, not the victims. We lament the dignified intent of the souls shattered on the common sibling. We are what remain, marching into the future, with the weight of the past.'"