The path of elevation within the Druid order is a long ordeal that many cannot accomplish the intricate enchantments and mastery of life magic that would grant them access to the Wellspring of Renewal.  Being near to the source within the Temple restores a beings soul and fills them with vitality hence the power the ancient treelords possess anywhere on the island though the almost never leave the confines of the great tree the temple was built within.  Those druids that cannon grow within the discipline of life magic often fall to dark magic in its many forms either corrupted by the dark gods or the death god Nagash.  It is the job of the Inquisition to seek the fallen druids out and put and end to their affront to Allarielle and her gift of life to Arranoc.  

Arborious (hahaha) is a necromancer of prodigious skill who has spread the worship of Nagash death cults throughout Arranoc.  He fell from the order when he found a forbidden tome that spoke to him in his dreams promising him immense power greater than any other in the order if only he would read its pages.  For long nights he withstood its temptations until he finally gave in and furiously read its foul pages.   He became mad with the knowledge of necromancy he had learned and he gouged his own eyes outs in grief at the futility of his own existence.  He willingly gave himself to Nagash and was gifted with powerful necromantic abilities.  The dead rise at his command as he chants the passages that were burned within his memory by the foul tome leaning heavily upon a staff of Sylvaneth heartwood.  

The Greenskin hordes of Gorbag One-Eye have raided the outer kingdoms of Arranoc for many long years since the shift to Ghur that saw the island supplanted unto a great plain of endless grasses.  From here the nomandic One-Eye clan raided the kingdom of Eindil on and reveled in the destrucition the had wrought when with sudden and fateful defiance the island shifted out of Ghur back into the skies above Shyish.  As restless spirits and the corpes of those they had slain rose and began to devour all within reach the Greenskins withdrew into the ironoak fortress at the heart of Eindil's capital of Tor Eindor   From here the cunning Gorbag raided the surrounding country side and towns on boar back hit and run attacks that slowly dweldled the deadwalkers numbers and with the passage of Arranoc back into Ghyran the Greenskins found the dead a threat no longer and Gorbag One-Eye fortified Tor Eindor into the Black Fortress and crowned himself the One-Eye King.  Raiding the neighboring kingdoms has become Gorbag favored pastime as his hordes have grown more numbers as the seasons pass.  Even the Greenskinz seem to benefit from the Wellspring's blessings as their numbers have only grown as they have found good fighting upon Arranoc.

Here are some pictures of the necromancer Arborious who I plan to use as the center of a Deadwalker element to my death army.  As well I finished the coven throne to a level I am happy with and started on the orruks that I had in my bits box.  The story really helps with the painting so I think I am going to try and keep up with the stories.  Next I think I am going to write about Boledrian's next mission and maybe have a scene in the temple.