Deathmask

Azrael is dead.

The most terrible necromancer the world ever knew has at last succumbed to the call of his own trade, and all of his foul works have fallen into ruin.

Or has death itself been cheated?

A thousand years later, the earth once scorched by death magic is again alive and green, and coveted by two empires of men. Azrael is all but forgotten.

But history forgotten is often relived.

A small troop of soldiers stumbles onto the rubble of an ancient keep and finds a relic of chilling beauty...