Skulldugger's Spade (Patreon)

Wondrous item, rare

While holding this spade, you can use an action to touch it to the ground in an unoccupied space and speak its command word. When you do, you immediately remove and destroy up to ten contiguous 5-foot cubes of unworked dirt or stone, starting from the space you touched with the spade; each cube must have at least one face adjacent to the face of another cube. If doing so creates a hole, its openings are immediately obscured by an illusion of the original dirt or stone, as if by the hallucinatory terrain spell (save DC 15), which remains for 8 hours.

Once you remove ten cubes of dirt or stone in this way, this property of the spade can't be used again for 8 hours.

Others dig graves for the memories of lives lived and lost.

I dig for the lives yet to be taken, and a long drop and broken bones ensure my graves are filled.