Imprisonment of the Necromancers

In A.Y. 3411, Pendragon Lal Soratami openly condemmed Necromancy, regardless of a given temple's ideology. Nearly all Grey Temple necromancers had been killed by the end of the Necromanic Wars and the few that survived were mostly already in prisons for war crimes.

This, however, was seen by Soratami as not enough to atone for the sins of the necromanic wars. At his command, armies under the direct control of the Slayer Dragons surrounded and lay seige to all Necromancer Temples in the known worlds.

Destruction and Dismantlement

At this time, there were no more established Grey Temples, and the Green Temples lacked any form of central leadership.

As the temples surrendered, Soratami ordered their occupants put to death and the bodies burned(in Necromancy, this is the ultimate sacrilige). The contents of these temples were packed up and taken to Arindell to be stored in caches south-east of the city. Within a year, nearly all Necromancy temples throughout Alliance territory had been destroyed.

Temples in joint space were a little luckier, as at first they enjoyed some protection by the Gudersnipe Foundation. However, within the territory directly controlled by the Alliance and Gudersnipe, only the GS Towns really fell under the direct jurisdiction of the Foundation. For the first time in Alliance history, a Pendragon excercised the true level of control the Alliance had over the area called joint space. Gudersnipe troops withdrew to avoid another war, and the last Green Temple was torn down and demolished by A.Y. 3425.

Last Bastion of Necromancy

Durring the fourteen years spent dismantling the temples and executing the necromancers, a few were spared. These were mostly children and roung adults, necromancers who had been born after the war ended. They were brought to Arindell to establish a new temple in the shadow of Stormwind Keep.

South-east of the Arindell, there was a collection of buildings that contained caches of necromancer equipment looted from the other temples, along with records going back to the early Mage Wars. This area was fenced off and patrolled by guards, and the remaining Necromancers allowed to establish a temple inside.

This would become the last Necromancer Temple in all of the known worlds.

Freedom

For 3,485 years and two complete Ages, all surviving Necromancers lived in a single temple in Arindell. Though population control was very strict, the place was still over-crowded and conditions were inhuman.

In A.Y. 6910, by decree of Pendragon Jusenkyou, all Necromancers were freed. This event happened the same year as the begining of the Age of the Dragon and is considered to be part of that Age.

Jusenkyou's act was considered by many to require more power than the Pendragon could rightfully weild at that time. In fact, it was Pendragon Soratami's abuse of his power in virtually annhilating the Necromancers over three millenia earlier that had led to the vast reduction in the Pendragon's power.

A mass exodus occured at the temple in Arindell, as thousands of Necromancers reveled in their freedome and left their home to establish new temples elsewhere. The temple in Arindell was left nearly abandoned, but would quickly be repopulated over the next few decades as it's remaining inhabitants enjoyed the freedom to return to the Necromanic tradition of large families.

Legal Ruling

Roughly ten years after Pendragon Jusenkyou freed the necromancers, an [{Alliance]] comittee finally ruled that Pendragon Soratami did not have the power to imprison the necromancers in the first place. And while by that logic, Pendragon Jusenkyou also lacked the power to free them, they had actually never been legally imprisoned in the first place. For the 3,485 years the Necromancers had been in Arindell, they had been under the controll of the city's civil defense force, a group which reported directly to the Slayer Dragons. While considered a part of the Alliance's military, this group was not under the control of any member world, and hence the containment of the Necromancers had been carried out by order of the Slayer Dragons. An order, which should be notted, had actually been given over three thousand years earlier by a Pendragon that would be considered a power-mad dictator by modern standards.

No Alliance law was ever placed on the books restricting the Necromaner's freedom. And while one might have been passed, dozens of new temples were already firmly established by the time this was determined.

Hence, the Necromancers would remain free.