1. Characters

Vedim ir'Omik

Necromancer
NPC (Politician)
Karrnath in Khorvaire

Count Vedim ir’Omik has plans of his own. While still ostensibly loyal to King Kaius III, he misses the glory days of the Last War, when he could stride openly through court, enjoying the nervous glances of fear and respect (or loathing) from his noble peers. Relegated now to underground, underfunded laboratories, he has begun to seek ways to hurry the onset of the next chapter in the war that he never believes ended. Rather than create simply more Karrnathi zombies and skeletons, as per his orders from his liege, he has recently turned his research in new directions. The results have been more than he dreamed, and now, while seeking to create still more powerful, potent undead, he also looks for ways to use his new creations to seed the start of a new war.

So far, the creatures created by Vedim’s necrogenesis program are few. The count is far from stupid, and he knows that should the king discover his program, he might be the next victim on the altar of the Blood of Vol. The fashioned undead (urdarks and vours) are carefully controlled by Vedim, answering only to him or those he provides with specific arcane pass phrases.

Source: Magic of Eberron

The Corpse Collectors

Source: Five Nations

Officially, undead legions are still on the rolls of Karrnath’s army. Royal corpse collectors still have the right to claim suitable bodies from Karrnath’s morgues, turning them into the Karrnathi skeletons and zombies.

Kaius has ordered his Minister of the Dead, Count Vedim ir’Omik, to maintain Karrnath’s undead legions while keeping a low profile. Count Vedim is obeying the letter of the king’s instructions; his plans are ambitious but secret.

Everything about necromancy and the undead fascinates Count Vedim, but ironically he’s unaware that his liege and cousin, Kaius, is himself a vampire. Count Vedim has secrets he’s keeping from Kaius, as well. Vedim’s necromancers have started to experiment with small units of wight and vampire spawn, “field testing” them beyond Karrnath’s borders. The corpse collectors seem to be collecting bodies from specific bloodlines, trying to reanimate them with powers beyond the norm for undead.

Getting PCs Involved: A PC from Karrnath might have a bloodline of interest to a corpse collector . . . and Count Vedim’s collectors aren’t always scrupulous about waiting for their targets to die of natural causes.

The Valenar elves know that someone is raiding their borders with organized bands of wights and vampire spawn. The elves naturally suspect Karrnath, but they don’t have proof. If the PCs come into possession of such proof, that’s valuable information to both the Valenar and potentially Kaius. To the corpse collectors, the existence of the experimental undead units is a secret worth killing to keep.

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