Baase sat in meditation before a council of reapers, the angels of death, for whom listened to their sovereign who in deep though had been thinking of the recent course of creation and the fated hour that was ever emerging. The deity of death began to speak in a tone of many voices, many chants, many tones, united in fate...
"Has fated the lives of this world has bloomed. To life is a to be as death will be and so their sleep more live to awake in this cycle of existence. Yet how mighty the oak may grow or the dragon roar each must eventually meet their last act, each set to wither like a rose or to be extinguish like a flame. It is the fate of all things to end, just as it is for all things to begin, for the end is a beginning and the beginning a end. Existence destroys nonexistence and the ceasing of existence creates nonexistence: such is a cycle of live and death that we must all, even the gods, be commanded by.
"Yet just as the flames of the volcanic wastes can cling to existence more so and how a great oak may manage to last thousands of years so does exist a loophole in the cosmic laws of the universe, a loophole which has been hidden among the shadows and lights... until now.
"Heed well o angels of death for you reapers are my eyes, hands and mouths. You search, you collect and bring my words; this latter has not yet been well performed, for I feel that my message should first be meditated upon before been set forth. I have conducted meditation and now feel the time has come to place of the seed of a civilization that will care not species nor creeds but only of the loophole that will drive mortal and immortal alike in a craze on the meaning of existence.
"Now though... I sense a volunteer emerges to speak to I, for I know the fated task that lies ahead."
"My sovereign" spoke a reaper among the clouds of shadow that surrounded the plains of Baase. "I volunteer to be thy messenger of undeath, of the knowing that you have realized would bring critique to the cycle that even you yourself are bounded by, for all must die yet the gods are ever hesitant to that notion at its fullest level. For the end to be there must a struggle against death and that the gift of undeath will see this struggle that will all end in them any rate being one with death and yourself."
"Very observant; your eyes and ears are ever a service to I o Imraa" spoke Baase. "Necromancy will be a school of magical and faithful considerations that will be bounded to the will of death in the end, for even the undeath must end. Nevertheless this will make a notable consideration to the forces of creation, allowing the worship of the fated as death becomes even more visible among the mortals who will always embrace death in the end, whether they are powerful or weak, rich or poor, dragon or insect. Undeath will make a interesting experiment, to see how mortal and immortal alike react to those who are either existent nor nonexistent, alive nor dead, of the world nor exiled from its plane.
"I hence will create a tomb of knowledge. This knowledge will begin in oral tradition as passed from Imraa to the first necromancers and, with the creation of the written word, will make hence a gospel of dark secrets which will involve the wisdom of fate. These souls who will cheat the laws of the cosmic will of course face risk of being shunned and oppressed by those who view those outside the cycle of live and death as the ultimate 'other' to be contested with. Trials will hence be set to those who seek to be beyond live and death, especially my faithful who will emerge to embrace my glory in thanks that the deity of death and fate is one whose true is universal: all must end. Even undeath must end for as the rotten carcase is eventually consumed by the parasites clinging to it, the ghost excused from the plain to a state of rest, the skeleton collapsing as even the most ironed bones decay and the lich's soul eventually is released as its container is cracked open to open the way to I. Necromancy will be the ultimate folly, a test to determine who is willing to embrace fate or who would like to try to rebel against it. All in all the truth will emerge: all must end."
"Therefore I will go and spread forth the knowing of necromancer to those who may hear" spoke Iraa. "My task will not cease till enough heed the knowledge and become will the new trials you will set the world, for the cosmic must be tested."
"Even fate must be trialed time to time" spoke Baase. "I will test myself through the spreading of news. Go now o Iraa and bring the truth that all must end but that there is a chance one can escape the cycle of live and death... even if necromancers in the end will have to face the trials set out by their own deity, who is not caring in favor of thy worshipers and practices for all are set to die, even those who hate death or even those who love it. In the end there will only be endings as all will die but then there will only be beginnings as the cycle continues. The challenging of the cycle... will the ultimate beginning and end of what will be."
Baase hereby sets first point of actions to spread forth the knowledge and practices of necromancers; creating this practice and spreading it to the mortal realm, delivered by the reaper Iraa as Baase's messenger. This will not be done by means of direct telling but indirect; made it unconcius and do not give the secrets to the Ironborn, as part of our pact with the war god. Baase will make the Valadesh the first necromancers, unlike the unworthy Ironborn. No more than 10 figures may become the first necromancers and whatever god they will control to worship Gelimont; I do not aim even to be secondary worshiped but rather just to spread my teachings of necromancy. In time sages will unlock through their own devices the means of necromancy and from there emerge the way. The necromancers will use dark to animate the dead and to even begin a quest to make themselves undead, ultimate resulting in the process of the lich, a immortal being of supreme necromancer power who commands the dead with utter glory. Yet all must end; the first of the necromancers will remember this...
Of course: what is the reason for undeath? Surely mortals must know what coming...
Set second into creating a special fog of conscious; make mortals blind to the great beyond, with eyes in mortal material notions rather than metaphysical realms. Essential make mortals uncertain about what will come after death, thus making necromancy more attractive and allowing a diversity in believes in what comes after death. Iraa should hopefully arrive with the message of undeath after my potential messiah has been part of the great fogginess to what is beyond. Such will fate them to strive.