To live beyond death.

Sure, it would be preferable to do away with death itself and just go on living. But even humans, with their boundless hunger, their selfish domination of natural order - even humans know when they are dreaming too big.

But to live after you died? To stand up after your last fall, to carrion? Well, that's the next best thing.

And what might hold the secret to this corruption of life? To this UnLife?

[No! Nasty word, UnLife. We seek to live still, after all. We are undoing death, not life!]

And what might hold the secret to this domination of death? To this UnDeath?

[That's more like it!]

The key, it is said, may be found..

[Damatic pause, very nice.]

..in the Tome of UnDeath.