The Wandering Mausoleums are great cathedral-bells perched on slow stone legs, drifting across the Lands Between with no apparent destination. They are tombs : in their hollow chambers lie the bodies of demigods or their lesser kin, kept preserved while the mausoleum walks. The Mausoleum Knights who escort each one were Numen royal guards in life, sworn to walk forever beside their charges.

Each mausoleum carries a single function for the Tarnished : ringing the great bell at its heart twice respites the body of a demigod, allowing the Tarnished to duplicate the Remembrance they hold. Some mausoleums are sealed against bell-ringing, those carry bodies that ought never to be respited, like Godwyn's, whose corruption would only spread further. The Walking Mausoleum of the Wailing Dunes, the Crowned Mausoleum on the Altus Plateau, and the Domed Mausoleum on the Forbidden Lands gorge are the most prominent.