Necromancer

The common imagination leads us to consider necromancers as evil creatures, unscrupulous and capable of trampling on any sort of ideal or righteousness in order to achieve their own nefarious goals, but it has not always been so. To understand how and why the scholars of death have become instruments of evil it is necessary to go back to the origins of the study of necromancy and the foundation of the Conclave by Lestat de Lincourt.

Many, many years ago, a small group of magicians belonging to the Order of Moonglow began to study and research the dynamics that regulate life and death events in order to find a way to lengthen the average age of existence. mortal to the point of gradually leading it to the condition of eternity.

This investigation, carried out mainly by a certain Ariakan Moontorn, was not limited to theoretical levels but found practical confirmation through a series of magical-operational experiences: Ariakan had managed to discover an ancient formula which, applied to a ritual, would have crossed the boundaries between life and death, even managing to annul the action of time on mortal limbs. The magician tried the ritual on himself... the effect was devastating and completely different from what he and his collaborators expected. The spell transformed Ariakan into an undead, an ambitious and power-hungry liche. The news did not take long to reach the ears of the other magicians of the Order who, stunned by what had happened, decided to end his life of the evil liche and to destroy every trace of the wicked ritual. The battle was terrible but Ariakan managed to escape and hide in an underground crypt of the Moonglow cemetery where he continued his studies undisturbed for several years. In 211,146 years later, a group of brave warriors discovered the crypt of the undead during an expedition to the Moonglow cemetery and through a very violent clash they managed to destroy him. Among the participants in the expedition there was also a certain "Lestat de Lincourt" defined by the people as "a strange creature" due to the his habits and his unnatural pallor. Lestat managed to collect the various books and writings containing Ariakan's studies. The progress that the evil liche had made in the field of necromancy had been immense. After having studied in depth and in the smallest details the tomes found in the crypt of horror, Lestat decided to request an audience with the Order of Magicians in order to obtain permission to establish a Conclave to continue the investigation in the necromantic field. The leaders of the Council offered their support to the Lestat's project but placed as a condition the complete independence of the Order from the Conclave in order to avoid repercussions of any errors committed by the members of the latter on the prestigious Order of Magicians of Moonglow.
Lestat managed to expand the Conclave and remained at its head for several decades... until reason decided to abandon him...
He ended his days inside his tower burned alive by a crowd of commoners and temple warriors by mandate of the Holy See.
Once Lestat de Lincourt died, Azatoth and Nolith were designated as his successors (a creature apparently very similar to Lestat), who began a real "restoration" of the order of necromancers, making it a real "Council" untied by ideals of Lestat and the controls of common magicians. They were golden years for the Council, prestigious names were among the followers and the necromantic investigation made enormous progress thanks to the two leaders who had adorned the then neutral order with glory.
As time passed Nolith decided to abandon his role as Supreme (the reasons are unknown) to go to an unknown place that he never wanted to make known.

Nolith was succeeded by a certain Arnis Escrima who, together with the now elderly Azatoth, played a role of considerable importance within the Council. It was precisely these two creatures who met the unnameable Elhoim for the first time.