Only Death May Die

Death has died. Now, nothing else can.

After the necromancer Barkolt challenged Mortos, the God of Death for his power, three terrible truths were discovered. The first: even gods can be killed. The second: mortal bodies are incapable of housing the divine might of gods. The third: without Mortos’s angels, the reapers, to sever the souls of the deceased from the their mortal shells, the dead cannot stay dead.

With Barkolt destroyed by his own ambition and Mortos dead, any living creature that dies is resurrected as a mindless undead monster as their souls continue to generate mana for their hollowed-out bodies. Worse, the rest of the gods have fled the world in fear, abandoning even their most ardent followers to be trampled under an ever-growing wave of walking corpses.

Necromancers are now the only beings capable of permanently severing souls from the bodies of the dead, but in the aftermath of Barkolt’s Folly, most were hunted down and slain in the hopes of bringing back the gods. Once a respected profession responsible for moving corpses sanitarily and settling inheritance disputes, necromancers have been reduced to fugitives, forced to hide their abilities lest they be thrown upon the pyre.

But necromancers are also the only hope the world has left. Following the collapse of her nation’s first line of defense against the undead hordes, Crown Princess Cinna of Selkarc stumbles upon one of the last living necromancers, an apprentice named Lilia who has been hiding in her master’s basement for the past year. Lilia’s master gave her one final command before being taken by the mob: do not reveal that you are a necromancer to anyone, under any circumstances.

Cinna decides to bring Lilia with her as she fights her way back to safety, unaware that the girl under her protection may be the last, best chance of saving Selkarc. Now the fate of the world depends on Cinna’s ability to win Lilia’s trust, and possibly the peoples’ ability to believe in the good intentions of one of the very necromancers they blame for its looming end.