With the invention of Professor Lazari's "Soulphone", the dead now had a voice in the living world. For the first time, even the most secretive murderers could be identified.
To protect their own interests, the Guild of Assassins brokered a deal with the Cult of Grim to summon unto the world a creature that would forever destroy a human spirit.
Much to their brief regret, such a beast would not care is that spirit was still within the living.
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