<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Quentan, rather than sending a 24 on a Know check to waste, I'll let you use that result for doing research into the things that Professor Lorrimor was working on. Given the quality of his library, this nets you a 26 total.<br/></div></div><br/>It was, perhaps, not surprising that even to a casual glance, the psychic imprints were strongest on Petros Lorrimor's journal; it had been, after all, only been in use by one man, rather than been situated in a library and perused by a multitude. Aelys' glimpse of Professor Lorrimor was disquieting to say the least. He was dead, his lower skull crushed under a fallen pillar; the markings on the wall he had been studying did not appear to be graffiti, nor ancient, but the glimpse was too fleeting to be certain of their import. The other thing notable about the scene was the lack of gore that would be expected as the result of such an accident - pillar and ground were almost clear of blood.<br/><br/>In the study, Quentan began poring over his dead friend's work. Backtracking from the notes and bookmarks in the various tomes, it became evident that he was interested in an Urgathoan cult of necromancers that has been active almost ever since the Pallid Princess escaped from Pharasma's Boneyard and returned to Golarion. More recently than that, they numbered a certain spellcaster by name of Tar-Baphon among their numbers, a man who made use of their collective expertise to transcend death and become a lich. Outside of these high points, very little was known about the Whispering Way: their philosophies were only transmitted in hushed whisper, never committed to paper or other permanent record. Apostates, renegades and those who simply knew too much were generally murdered by powerful magic to prevent resurrection, and their mouths mutilated to prevent simple interrogation of the corpse by divine magic. However, one of the things notable about the Whispering Way was that they were active researchers into undeath and means of turning the living into such horrors. This research often took the form of field research, expeditions to capture or interrogate unusual undead, study haunts, and investigate locales that seemed to spontaneously generate undead horrors.