#Ordo Secundi Mortis

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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XXVI. “GENESIS IN BLACK”

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ERWIN: 3) This has something to do with the warlocks and the Ordo Secundi Mortis – necromancer secret society, before you ask what that is. Remember in Core Magical History 101 and 102, the discussion around the topic of black magic being outlawed and made punishable by death after the whole giant magical war that caused the Porphyral Vale to split happened? That was the first iteration of The Ordo Secundi Mortis that started that shit, they spawned the vampires when they tried to wage a war on the Sages in an attempt to overthrow them. Their leader, some pompous piece of rich douchebag named Vladislav Straud, was fucking around in warlock stuff on top of necromancy, trying to make himself and his whole entourage immortal and rumor has it that some of them succeeded, but not the way they hoped. Anyway, when he was in his prime of practicing black magic, according to this book I found, Straud had a certain type of victim, sacrifice, whatever, that he preferred. Young, dark haired, dark eyed Casters that hadn’t been fully trained into a discipline yet: he picked out those particular physical attributes since– this is really fucked up– he liked the way they looked when their bodies were transformed into an undead state, and he chose the age group because their magic was more raw, potent, and unpredictable which he would absorb during the death ritual with a spell called “Vitae Sorbere” to make his magic more powerful. Plus, you know, the souls were still relatively fresh for his patron to devour at her leisure – not that he really gave a shit about the souls as much as he did the corpses, ‘cause that’s what he got out of the deal. He turned ‘em into, for lack of a better term, zombies: made them serve in his undead army, bound them to follow his every command, shit that necromancers moonlighting as warlocks do. Where the rest of the warlocks come in is that after the second iteration of The Order had to go deeper underground because The Sages and their army were winning the fight the Ordo picked and started threatening to roast their chestnuts over an open fire and made good on that threat with like 90 percent of The First Order, the other guys who were also doing sketchy shit that could end up with them being sentenced to a weenie-roasting joined up to boost the numbers of their ranks and keep them all from being put up on the Stake.

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Founded in 1622, in the city of Bleakmore within the Realm of the Porphyral Vale, The Esoteric Order of the Second Death, or the Ordo Secundi Mortis, was a secret society of wealthy and influential Untamed Spellcasters experimenting in the Black Arts of Necromancy and, later discovered, Forbidden Invocation. Spearheaded by Vladislav Straud, a world-renowned Necromantic Caster and Count of the Westrein-Broassau region of Eshuavania, The Order of the Second Death grew to great power, rivaling the authority of the Hall of Arcane Knowledge by the year 1690, due to their vast legion of soldiers comprised of the reanimated dead bound to their control. Count Straud as the Head of the Society was believed to have been long deceased during this most prosperous era, having passed the Order of the Prime Magus to his grandson, Vladimir, according to documents archived by Hall of Arcane Knowledge Historian at the time, Finchwick Charm. The true identity behind the alias of Vladimir, however, was the key to discovering that The Ordo Secundi Mortis had begun to delve much more deeply and recklessly into dangerous warlock magicks, particularly a ritual involving the summoning of Lilith, the mother of all demons, whom the Order revered as "Mother Night" or Mater Noctis. Trading the souls of their sacrifices to Lilith as their patron, tapping into magic no mortal was ever meant to perform, the Ordo Secundi Mortis struck a deal with the source of their Dark Power that would grant the Highest ranking members of the Order perfect immortality, intending to use this gift to their advantage as they plotted to wage a war against the Hall of Arcane Knowledge and overthrow the Council of The Four Sages.