Once I overcame the guards and wards of my beloved's burial vault, I progressed to her tomb. She lay there in the finery she wore the day of her assassination by the Gray Mages of Seldwin. Still so breathtakingly beautiful, even in her death. I pull aside the black lace shroud covering her corpse and I gaze longingly at the face of my fallen flame. Soon, her fires will be reignited though, and the fires of her vengeance will grow hot with the heat of the Hells in due time. Death stole my beloved from me the day those self-righteous magic-users pooled their resources to lay my dark goddess low. Tonight, a year after her assassination,  I will rob them of their shallow victory. I will cheat Death and win my beloved back to my side. I have brought the artifact skulls of Mictlantecuhtli to call my heartswell back to her empty vessel of flesh from beyond this plane. When she returns to me, we can begin the reclamation of what was our greatness - together.

I hastily prepare the recalling incantation and the Skulls of Mictlantecuhtli will amplify my necromantic powers once I invoke their powers with the essences of the slain Aphroditian priestesses guarding this tomb as fuel for the enchantment. Once I laid out the skulls I began the spell. The Skulls hummed and buzzed with otherworldly power and I could feel my own dark powers growing within me as the skulls come alive with para-elemental lightning and negative planar energies. I began the somatic components of the ritual-

"With the powers of Mictlantecuhtli's skulls answering to my will, I beckon to you, my muse, to rise! Come back to this mortal prime material plane so that we can again subjugate the weak and cause the world to cower at our might. Rise my beautiful muse, my queen - my love. RISE!"

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An adventure from my AD&D days getting fleshed out in a 3D render modified to fit the theme of this contest. One Victoria 4 character and a Genesis Basic Male character. No postwork.