The acolytes of Weynon Priory tell me that a Lich has been risen by the Shadowed Path cult in the Ayleid ruins of Lindai to the east. They fear that if this fiend isn’t destroyed, it’s corruption will quickly spread threatening the Priory, Chorrol and beyond.

Emperor Leovic’s infamous decree six years ago legalizing Daedra worship across the empire gave rise to a number of these necromantic cults. Perhaps only the Betrayer’s Black Worms who supplanted the Mages Guild in the Imperial city, now holds more power and sway in Cyrodiil then the Shadowed Path. But if left unchecked with a lich to lead them the cults influence across the province could become unstoppable.

Necromancy, whilst still considered dangerous, immoral and heretical by most Divine worshipping cultures, has become far more widespread and passively accepted in recent years. To the point where even the Mages guild have begun accepting necromancers, arguing that their discipline is but a division of the conjuration school of magic; though officially it is still a practice banned within their guild halls.

I am not a moral man, but surely damned are those who cower behind neutrality in times of great moral crisis. To what principles I hold, the assumption of necromancers that the dead are without rights and that our treatment of their mortal remains has no moral significance, is outrageous.

S.K