The Journal Of Oberess Crane

Oberess has always been obsessed with his creations which stemmed from the lack of control he had as a boy and young man. The journal entry starts around age 10. You read about a boy growing up in Geb. His family was strict and they had, like many families that live in the country, undead servants for manual labors. However, even the wealthy hold to discipline building strength at young ages. After all a strong body can help honed the mind. One thing Oberess's father said too often was "when the body suffers the spirit flourishes." Multiple entries repeat this quote as a signature in entries that address the abuses Oberess describes. That signature he holds to apparently as a way for him to encourage himself to know that he will be better for it...
This was how the Crane family operated. With harsh punishments did come grand rewards though and eventually you catch changes in the writing. Especially when he is given the chance to learn magic. A privilege to craft and weave together incantations. Its here that an outside view can see some patterns emerge in the lines he rights. Sentiments that share a theme with the family motto. "You cant experience pleasure unless you know a little pain." Two sided arguments like these run through as he learns magic and his growing place in the world. Gaining wealth of his own as he began to create even minor undead.
He talks about the way this magic and these experiments give him satisfaction that he never had before. Dissection and study of anatomy to understand the workings of life and death. He began to look at lesser creatures as potential subjects and potential wealth and influence in the communities he has planted himself in. Turning his new obsessions into hard currency.
Here you see changes come around about how he is now taking control of his life for the first time in his early 20's. Now fully separated from his family at the graveyard they kept as the family business. And as he took new paths to create and discover the magic that broke him free from the torment of his past. You still see references of "the body suffers the spirit flourishes" as much as he hated that phrase as a child and how much he wanted to escape the pain it brought him. Its become as much his shield to what he illustrates in the journal and his experiments. Justifying his progress he never could see the darkness that consumed him and that he embraced. But from the outside and what must be like for other who watched him during this transformative years, you can see that lose of humanity that defined what he became.
He built layers of control and structure that he called discipline. Designed social interactions and groomed people that he considered building relationships. The years continued and he became famous in all of Geb for his ingenious creations the ingenuity of his necrocraft. Soon darker corners the world over had at least heard of the Dark Doctor and his necromantic acuity. Oberess became enthralled in his own work and standing. Using the vast wealth to reach higher levels of mastery.
All this continued until finally a breakthrough in cognitive capabilities that was always lost during the animation process to his knowledge no one ever did what he did. His creation he called Kilara was a miracle in his eyes. The blend of necromantic resurrection and living will. Tying the essence of the soul to an amulet he had control of an undead servant that could think and reason and learn of its own accord without the mess of vampirism or lichdom or ghoulish impulses that were far more curse than they were worth when it came to true undead creation. He tested and analyzed his beautiful creation. Kilara was his new obsession. Perfection in his eyes. Until the terrible fate of a thief having the audacity to steal from him. Before Oberess tracked him down and killed him the thief had gotten rid of the stolen items. And not long after that did Kilara begin to realize that she was not under his control as she was from before and then managed her escape.
In the entries that address this perceived failure Oberess shows himself pained at the loss. Knowing that something he created in the world fled and hated him for the gift he provided. His anger growing as his fortune was spent trying to find her and having no luck. Never letting himself forget or let go. "Suffering brings spiritual flourish" "I flourished and created perfection. But it only brought more suffering once she was gone..." here it broke down that he couldn't see passed the suffering part of his motto. He suffered and gained nothing so suffrage became all he knew. The end of the journal spoke about how he finally found her and how he manufactured the final confrontation. He would destroy his perfect creation to end his suffering or he would die at her hands... either way the pain would stop...