Grim Council

The Grim Council of Anu Maht sought to purge the Necroliberatas of all heresy in order to arrive at a pure ideal copy of this tome which would glorify only death. This task turned out to be much more difficult than it would at first seem to be, as many of the most charismatic of the spiritual leaders among the dead also harbored lingering attachments to their identity in life. As a result, many of the scriptures included in early editions of the Necroliberatas were distressingly life-affirming at the level of content and metaphor, because the authors tended to fall back on metaphors from their previous lives as humans.
Around the end of the Third Empire, the High Priestess of Anu Maht demanded that a group of her most powerful scholars would convene to purge the Necroliberatas of heretical passages, deciding once and for all what was Truth and what was Falsehood, thereby drawing a line between True Scripture and Apocrypha. A spiritual confrontation with Wormius the Heresiarch ensued, with the central point of debate being whether three principles (Material, Magickal, and Essential) ruled over all races, or whether a larger Octahedron of forces might govern over a multiverse.
What began as a mere editorial task soon devolved into allout spiritual warfare, with the Council burning many texts deemed heretical, while Wormius’ followers desperately tried to preserve their own sacred scriptures. Today, only fragments of the heretical gospels have survived, in torn and singed scraps of parchment that somehow survived the pyres upon which copies of the apocryphal Necroliberatas had been incinerated. It is rumored in faint whispers that, if one of the dead were to collect enough of these fragments, they would re-assemble themselves into powerful scrolls that would grant the power of a Lich. The servants of the High Priestess fervently deny this, but her edicts serve only to tantalize those among the dead who crave forbidden magick.
The Grim Council of Anu Maht

A spiritual confrontation with Wormius the Heresiarch ensued, with the central point of debate being whether three principles (Material, Magickal, and Essential) ruled over all races, or whether a larger Octahedron of forces might govern over a multiverse.