The Necromancer Empire

Alan Dean Foster has an appendix in the novelization that runs through the details regarding the founding of necroism and the necromonger empire. The lord marshal here is the holy half-dead xylah the last he's the sixth and again possibly the last lord marshal because eventually there's going to be a lord marshal that finishes off the rest of human life in the universe. So it's kind of like the ancient greek vision of Hades you know it's a place you could go to it's not yes it's hard to go there but you can go right and some people can come back and then they have privileged information about the universe.