Any living humanoid or monstrous humanoid can petition for consideration to undergo the Ritual of Crucimigration, which if successful enables the creature to become a necropolitan. A citizen of the City of the Wyrm. The petition for consideration requires a fee of 3,000 gold pieces and a written plea to the Matron of Sel'Vae.

Special citizenships are available for necromancers, demons, intelligent undead, and other underdark races. They will be granted citizenship or visas on an individual basis.

The Ritual: The first part of the ritual requires the placement of the petitioner on a standing pole. Cursed nails are used to affix the petitioner, and then the pole is lifted into place. The excruciating pain that shoots like molten metal through the petitioner's fingers and up the arms is not what finally ends the petitioner's mortal life, since death usually comes from asphyxiation and heart failure. As petitioners feel death's chill enter their bodies, many have second thoughts, but it is far too late to go back, the cursed nails and chanting of the ritual ensures that the Crucimigration is completed.

The ceremony that lasts for 24 hours the usual time it takes for the petitioner to perish. During this period, two or three zombie servitors keep up a chant initiated by the ritual leader when the petitioner is first placed into position. Upon hearing the petitioner's last breath, the ritual leader calls forth the names of evil powers and gods to forge a link with the Negative Energy Plane, and then impales the petitioner. Dying, the petitioner is reborn as a necropolitan, dead but animate.

((Game Effect: immediately upon opening its undead eyes, a new necropolitan is linked with the city of the wyrm. Just speaking the name of the city and willing it, the necropolitan can open a portal through the negative plane directly home. The necropolitan retains all knowledge and power they had in life, though powers associated with the positive plane (Healing) is warped and now calls on the negative. No spell, not even divine restoration, can restore them back to life. Any other questions MSG Laenre' shi.))