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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arcanaman" data-source="post: 4894469" data-attributes="member: 71819">Origins of Necromany I am Nerreamus Master of Divination former apprentice of Leshra the Apatehtic founder of the school of Divination in it's current  and Have been tasked to Chronicle the immediate age before Adeiron's Dyeira is witness to the present I am witness to the past. on this my 40th year since the beginnimg of my task I am aged 63 years in the next pages which I dip ink I bear witness after much effort to founding of the school of necromany. I traveled to the city of Teiranoc where this  is legend  and sent my apprentices out like  fisherman to cast their nets out for the knowledge I seek. Teiranoc was embroided for many years with savage men on there northern border and often sent there army forth to repel them in these  invaders during one such skrimish between  them. On this such an occassion a handfasted soldeir named Urden meant his end. His handfasted wife a conjurers apprentice named Nerrissa was distrought at his death and wearing the mourning clothes she entered the  temple of Davednithas  crying and dragging  his body she demanded the priests to bring him back to life, they replied that they could not his soul had been  to long departed from this world. Sulking from the temple  she went to her master whom she begged to bring her husband back to life. He explained to her he could not summon the soul of a dead person and have it renter  there body. After this still distraught  she continued to look for away to bring her love back to until finally she decided  to summon the Pit fiend Harrtus. Working the ceremony at a standing ring of stones the Archmages of Teiranoc  had created to store excess arcane power she summoned the Devil Harrtus. She demanded that it show her how to bring her husband back to life, Harrtus replied he could show her that  and much more for a price. This is how Nerrissa learned what would be called eventually the art of necromany. On the last day of  tutleage Harrtus  showed her how to "bring her husband back to life". Warning her his full mental and physical compacity would  not be fully restored at first but until then she could order him  about and he would obey using her new taught power she "gave her husband life". She kept Harrtus bound afraid she might need his knowledge  further. Until sometime later when her husband began to grossly detoriate. Realizing she was tricked she supressed Harrtus within the stones rather than freeing him.The savage men of the North penerated Teiranoc  sometime after that and the Archmages called upon the excess power to defend the city. Harrtus realizing he could escape imprisionment in the magical pathways invovled  in creating a spell used this time to escape causing the power to  buckle and rupture killing  the archmages  and expelling himself from the material plane.  A slaughter took place many soldeirs of Teiranoc died. With the archmages gone it looked like no one could turn the tide. During the chaos Nerrissa used her magic to bring many soldiers from both sides to fight the invaders surely without her efforts Teiranoc would not remain. However the surviors did not see her profane powers well and imprisoned her. Nerrissa never stood before the magisters to recieve punishment. Instead a knife ended up in her cell. The details upon how she recieved the knife vary from story teller to story teller and thusly are inaccurate meaning  I have not wittnessed how the knife came to her possesion. She had been studying for a while the methods of embalming you see and some of the  subtantces  used in the art came into her possesion.  and she aquired a drinking jar which she filled with the the liquid. Stabbing her heart and placing it in the jar behold the first lich. It is rumored she still exists today </blockquote>

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