The Seventh Sigil

The Seventh Sigil

Organization	Cult
Leadership	Seven Rulers

The Seventh Sigil is a secret, realm-spanning cabal of undead lords who united their dark powers to extend necromancy’s reach. Named for both the seventh school of magic and the seven undying masters who lead it, the Sigil weaves networks of undead across kingdoms and cults alike.

About

The Seventh Sigil is less a cult than a council of undying tyrants. Each Lord commands vast networks of undead, necromancers, and dark priests, yet they act as one when the Sigil is invoked. Their reach is subtle but vast: they whisper to desperate kings, bolster failing armies with skeletal reinforcements, and trade in blasphemous magic that others dare not touch. Mortals often mistake them for scattered necromancers or rival death cults, but in truth these fragments are all threads of a single web. They do not necessarily vie for outward world domination, but to instead subtly control the world from the shadows. Members of the cult believe that true ascendance and enlightenment can only come from undeath.

The Seventh Sigil operates like a shadow empire, its influence spread across the realm in discrete, compartmentalized cells. Each pocket functions independently, with its own undead minions, mortal agents, and secret caches of necromantic knowledge, ensuring that the failure of one agent does not compromise the others. The cult prefers subtlety over brute force, manipulating rulers, funding wars, and spreading plagues from the shadows rather than openly marching armies of the dead.

Origins

The origins of the Seventh Sigil lie in an age when the great masters of undeath walked alone, carving out petty fiefdoms of bones and shadows. Liches raised towers of desolation, vampires ruled from hidden crypts, and mummy lords clung to forgotten empires, each obsessed with their own eternal existence. Yet these isolated reigns often faltered; lich phylacteries were shattered, vampires were staked, and undead armies crumbled when mortals rose in defiance. It was in the ashes of these repeated failures that a revelation spread among the undying: survival and supremacy demanded unity. From whispered bargains and profane rituals of binding came the first convening of seven powerful undead, their pact sealing the birth of the Seventh Sigil. Rumors place the date of the order's origins somewhere in the mid-to-late BR era.

The decision to take their name from necromancy itself, the seventh school of magic, was no mere vanity. It was a declaration of their intent to embody and expand that school beyond any mortal comprehension, elevating necromancy to the highest of arcane paths. The Seven swore to pool their knowledge, share their minions, and build networks of cultists and agents that could move unseen across continents. What one Lord could not achieve alone, seven could accomplish together, and soon their influence stretched across continents. Even in those early centuries, the Sigil was more than a cult: it was an undead conspiracy, woven by beings who embraced undeath as their true nature.

The Seven Sigils

The Seven Sigils are the undying masters of the Seventh Sigil, seven powerful undead whose combined will shapes the fate of undead and mortals alike. Each commands vast networks of minions, cults, and necromantic secrets, yet together they form a council whose influence stretches across continents. Feared, whispered about, and rarely seen, the Seven Sigils embody the pinnacle of necromantic power, guiding the Sigil’s dark ambitions with patience, cunning, and authority.

Karthorix, Wizard of the Black Tower

Karthorix is an ancient wizard and lich, possibly the oldest member of the Seventh Sigil. Master of necromancy and other arcane arts, Karthorix has long outgrown any desire to control kingdoms or amass power, seeking only to continue learning in peace. Though a being of undeath, Karthorix’s temperament leans more toward curiosity than cruelty, displaying malevolence only when mortals or rival factions threaten his existence. Many of the souls bound to his phylacteries are willingly offered, and his true phylactery is hidden within a nondescript book tucked deep in the endless libraries of the ArchCrystal Tower.

Karthorix’s domain, the Black Tower, rises from the Pine Barrens of Osugbo like a shadowed monolith. Its interior defies reality, expanding far beyond the exterior’s narrow spire. Within, twisting corridors of laboratories, sanctums, and libraries unfold endlessly, each chamber a testament to centuries of study. Karthorix maintains a network of loyal necromancer apprentices, each carefully trained and often left to pursue their own experiments under his guidance. Though others perceive him as part of the Seventh Sigil’s malign influence, in truth Karthorix wishes only to be left undisturbed, a scholar of undeath seeking the secrets of life, death, and what lies beyond.

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