AKADEMIK VERBOGENWALD

Zremona Crane hated the word Necromancer! It was sooo reductive. As if her intellect would be limited to such narrow a field. She was a zoologist, a thaumaturgist, an engineer and more. In her mind it'd be quicker to list what she wasn't than try and list all the things she considered herself to be.

Her one overriding belief was in scientific rigor, whether that was applied to death, life, nature, alchemy, technology or anything else of interest. Her thirst for knowledge was what drove her. She had studied with scholars in Araby, worked with Artificers under the World's Edge Mountains, visted mystics in the Kingdoms of Ind.

To learn was to live, and that was Zremona's haunting fear! There would always be more to learn but these puny mortal bodies came with a time limit. That was why she set up her Academy deep in the Verbogenwald foothills. With enough study, they would find a way to defer the 'great inevitability'.