From Death Knight to Bone Sovereign

“You want gold? Women?” “Or women with golden hair?” As the rightful heir to his territory, Lemus was stabbed through the heart from behind by the deputy he trusted most on the battlefield against the foreign races. After death, he should have become an undead creature. Yet now he stood before that deputy again, flesh and blood. “Just tell me who wanted me dead back then.” “Then you can have all these things... from now on...” In the Third Era of the Continental Calendar, undead creatures from the far northern ice fields swept across the entire continent of Navod... A century later, dragons had vanished, orcs were extinct, and elves were gone... As vast legions of the undead neared the borders of the southernmost kingdom, the nobles who ruled the land remained engrossed in schemes and infighting... Unaware that the death knell of their kingdom had already begun to toll... (An original high-magic Western fantasy setting, lords, farming, slow-paced. A little patience is recommended.)