Dead Gods

Castle Cardarax looms on the edge of blackened mountains, home to one of the most enigmatic and foul creatures in the land. Lady Cordelia Spite, or the Night Widow as locals call her, spends her time attempting to pry open the secrets of immortality. Her castle halls longer with the acrid stench of necromancy as her shuffling ghoul's attend to her macabre experiments as Lady Cordelia blends mad science and occult philosophy in a quest to cheat death.

It began with her husband, Lord Mycroft Spite, an odorous beast if there ever was one. Struck down with the pox, his death was celebrated in nearby villages. But soon there were reports of his image creeping on the shadows, stealing people away in the night. Lady Cordelia, in her grief, had turned to unholy powers to raise her husband from death. But instead of becoming a normal man Mycroft was reborn a festering ghoul (though still quite under the command of his wife).

Occult knowledge wasn't enough and so when the first god fell to earth Lady Cordelia saw an opportunity. The relics left behind by divine beings could possibly be used to unlock the secrets of eternal life so using her ghouls, ghosts and minions she seeks them and will flay anyone who tries to get in her way, raising them as one of her own after death.