A mage who walks the Path of Doom, treading the barren wastes and black rivers of the realm of Stygia to attain the Watchtower of the Lead Coin. There is a price to be paid for entering places influenced by Stygia, and there are many tollgates on the road the soul must travel through death to attain new life. This price isn’t in mundane lucre but in the treasure reaped by the soul during life. If its weight is light, like that of precious metals, the soul can rise above its death. But if it is heavy, like lead, the soul must remain in the abode of shades until it can relinquish its hold on life.

The Ruling Arcana of Stygia are Death and Matter, for it is the place of shells, whether the hollow shells of egos worn in life or the heavy shells of material greed. Whatever is most heavy falls to the influence of this realm. Ghosts who are anchored to the world they have already left, material treasures that distract the soul from its true work, and even darkness, which weighs down the light.

Moros necromancers are often stereotyped as dour and quiet, and there are certainly those mages who fit that description, but this image is based more on others’ misunderstanding of what mages who work so close to death must be like. If a Moros is gloomy, it is because he is all too aware of the doom that others face, while he rises above it all, alchemically transformed by his sojourn in the undiscovered country to which all eventually travel.

Followers of the Path of Doom:

• Councilor Heinrich Khunrath of the Rhombus, Mysterium Moros, Master of Matter, Councilor of the Lead Coin
• Provost Jacobus Typotius of the Arbor Vitae, Guardian of the Veil Moros, Adept of Matter, Provost of the Lead Coin
• Erasmus Habermel of the Arbor Vitae, Mysterium Moros, Adept of Matter
• Marzanna of the Servitores Apicis, Mysterium Moros, Disciple of Death, Fate and Time