An open letter from Fa. David

More than two millennia ago, wise men studied the boundary between life and death, even then putting it on a sound academic footing. Elijah walked bodily into the Veil Albicant and conversed with angels. When he finally grew old he boldly walked bodily into the Veil Ecolumbine and never returned. The greatest strides came later, with our Lord and messiah. He was a great leader, scholar, teacher, and wizard, but also a great necromancer. He was a direct representative of Yahweh, and the Veils Ecolumbine and Celeste we know owe as much to his wake as those of the older mystics and of God Himself.

But several times during his life he also entered death and came out bringing with him a departed soul, which he raised back to life. His greatest magical achievement came with his first greatly tortured death, or only death, when he walked three days in the near veils, and then brought himself back into life from the far side.

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