It took thirty thousand soldiers and twenty thousand stone masons six weeks to build a temple where the body of Neo got his final balseming and two thousand woodworkers and artists to build three hearses for the transport to Neopolis.
There was a hearse with two wheels, a hearse with four wheels and a hearse with additional paintings for the mountain people. Six horses were needed: three to pull the hearse and 3 horses serving as backup or additional pulling power in difficult circumstances.
The procession was lead by Rokhshan on Bucephalus, Neo's horse. When the procession entered the desert the hearse was changed for the first time as four wheels were easier to get through the sand than two, and one horse was added.
For climbing the mountains it was thought easier on the rocky roads to go for the hearse with two wheels again.
While climbing the mountains Rokhshan was not accustomed to the lower temperatures and had asked for a coat.
The roads were flatter now and the hearse was switched again. More soldiers also moved to the front to walk next to the hearse. And in the bright sunlight temperatures rose again.
In the valley there were no changes, but a lot of the soldiers were exited because they would be reunited with their loved ones, the local mountain woman, and their children which they had not seen yet.
Hundreds of women came down from the mountains when they heard the news, excited to meet their husbands, and happy to being able to show them their children for the first time.
When they saw the hearse however (the one with the extra paintings) they could not hide their tears for the father, as they called him, of this new nation. Most of the women from the mountains joined the procession and it was a happy army that finally reached its destination and marched into Neopolis.
For the occasion the hearse without the additional paintings was used again, and Bucephalus got the honor to pull it. The soldiers of Bernadotte who had remained in Neopolis all came out to watch the procession march through the center of the city, and answered its arrival with silence and a respectful applause.