"That is not dead which can eternal lie, is flesh to be raised by the Lich Kings Eye"
The Book of the Dead
Composed by Abhosl Talaved, a mad poet of Sanaá, in Axis, who is said to have been a member of a flourishing Necromantic Cult, circa 700 2A.
He visited the ruins of the river Knee Deep and the subterranean secrets of Underholmand spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of The Red Wastes, then known as the 'Roba el Khaliyeh' or "Empty Space" of the ancients— which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death that the efforts of Talaved Man'Draq't'oran, The Emperor and the Red Dragon of The Three missed in their purge.
Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. In his last years Talaved dwelt in The Golden CItadel, where the Necronomicon was written.
Of his final death or disappearance (738 2A.) many terrible and conflicting things are told. He is said by Ebn Khallikan (2A biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses.
Of his madness many things are told. He claimed to have seen fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind. He was renowned for his worship of the fallen First Emperor, who is now known as the The Lich King