Ink and watercolour plate of a gaunt dark mage in tattered black robes, his face lost in a deep hood, leaning on a gnarled staff while a skeletal hand claws out of the earth at his feet.

Character

The Necromancer

The dark mage whose legions of undead brought the war of the dead to Meliora: a master of death whose name the chronicle does not record.

  • Between the Ages

Description

The necromancer was a dark mage who bent the dead to his will. Abigail, who studied his power in order to counter it, saw in it an unspeakable mastery of every science ever known: in a world where death is never absolute yet always irreversible, he undid that order. His name, homeland and purpose are not recorded here.

"Legions of undead, thralled to the will of one dark mage..." — Aurelius

Historical context

His legions fought the war of the dead against Meliora, and every fallen warrior, mage or assassin swelled their ranks. Abigail's answer, the ritual later called the Gloaming, helped end that war. Even so, Aurelius judged that had the old necromancer seized the great burial grounds beneath Twilight Peak, Meliora would have fallen within weeks.