Zuniga’s Rest

The history of the isle’s great families were peppered with tales of the undead, but no one actually believed the nobles were born of necromancy. Such stories served as a child’s warning, to ward off ambition, corruption and an ‘unnatural order’.

Yet any first-year scholar who merely blushed at the towering books of the Athenaeum would come across mention of a name amongst the tales, time and again.

Z U N I G A

Some records report he was Master of Coin to one court. Others indicate he was the Primarch Mage for another. And one tattered tome suggests that, consumed by love and grief, a certain Zuniga raised his recently deceased beau so that he may live in his stead.

This soulswap of legend – the first ever documented – is the foundational fable of House Clements. So the scroll describes, at the end of his mysterious ritual, the very essence of Zuniga ascended violently to the heavens before plummeting into a chain hanging about his lover’s neck.

The very set of jewels that, centuries later, hangs in the Clements’ throne room.