The plague of all living things is death, the beauty of horror inextricably linked through poetry and art, knowledge and faith. It cannot be stopped. It calls each of us with impunity. But death, by all, is still feared. Rumors of hellish after-life shake the foundation of every religion. Often, the spiritual core is challenged by one's own dependence of the flesh. A fate worse than hell, a living damnation awaits those challenge the rites of the gods.

Yet still some seek eternity, delving into the arcane lore of the darkest of secrets. The gates between life and unlife sunder under the blows of faithless men who forsake their souls at the expense of the living.

Damn the all.