Many floors down from Asheen, a lone Dwarf sat in the library, looking over a handful of books.  He'd been preparing for a rather involved ritual for a few weeks now.  Or, rather, Hracin thought, conducting research into a ritual that he never intended to perform.  Aside from the fact that technically it was illegal, though interesting, the results could be catastrophic.  Raising a fairly large number of beings from the Otherside near the academy defintiely fell into the category of Bad Ideas.  Still, the basic concept was something he'd been drawn to for decades now, since his first days as a student of magic.