A sixth-level necromancer dies in battle on a foreign plane, only to awaken in a filthy slave pen during the industrial age of muskets and steam.
The world calls it the Victorian Era. He calls it the breeding ground of an undead empire.
Werewolves, vampires, demons, angels, eldritch abominations? He’s seen them all. Fought them, dissected them, repurposed their corpses into walking weapons.
Now, stripped of power and talent, he starts again.
From bone scraps and rotting corpses, he rebuilds.
From forbidden rites and broken meditation, he rewrites.
From the shadows of a cursed manor, he spreads the seed of a new lineage: the Furnace Mages.
Raise the dead. Explode the soldiers. Burn the soul to fuel the will.
The plague will rise again. The mage towers will return.
This time, he won’t stop at the peak.
He’ll become a Holy Spirit Mage. An Overlord. A true behind-the-scenes calamity.
And it all begins with a family of werewolves who thought he was just another slave.