The Ritual of Parody is enacted

Metaphysical / Paranormal event

Desperate to win the battle with the fiends, the First Human King of Dwarves enacts the Ritual of Parody, turning all who will or have ever died in Hammerfell into undead under his control. As the First Human King of Dwarves was completing the ritual, he was fatally attacked by a devil, causing him to be trapped in the ritual himself, though he rose again as a lich rather than a semi-sentient undead.