u/OGSyedIsEverywhere

The Fringefolk Hero's Grave has a beautifully constructed lift entrance to the surface with ghostflame torches to light the path, but the Stranded Graveyard is off in a side room of rubble with only the most basic ornamentation. A great deal of coffins and boats have flowed in there from the sea in the way that death flows, but the whole place is just a naturally eroded cave complex. Did it predates FHG or did it erode after? Was it still in use as a way to supply FHG with bodies at the time of the Shattering?

I'm wondering if the capacity of death to flow from place to place was introduced into the DLC as a massive expansion of a previous idea or if it was there from the initial release.

As far as I know, the only flows of death in the base game are the player's dead body flowing to the Stranded Graveyard, the coffins that transport people to places, the cut giant coffin in Deeproot Depths and the implications of what is going on at Summonwater Village. In the DLC, there's dozens of things relating to the flows of death.

Was it a planned lore component all along, or did they come up with it while developing SotE and adapt previous imagery to fit it?