Everyone who was present the night of Ludra's murder gathered in the estate chapel. Marren and Petro's bodies lied in state at either side of the priest as he began he ceremony. Grief-stricken Phineas knelt before the priest, begging Ludra for forgiveness.
"Confess to all your sins, Lord Skirvin," the priest commanded. Phineas complied. All present heard him describe his relationship with young Ludra, her pregnancy, and subsequent murder. His colleagues lowered their heads in shame. The servants, still sick, gasped. "Forgive me, Ludra." The candles fluttered. Lightning crashed. The doors to the chapel slammed shut.
"No!" shouted Ludra through Esme. "I will never forgive you!" Just then, the servants all screamed in unison. They crumbled to the floor of the chapel and started to change.
Their hair fell out and their skin turned gray. Their eyes burned with hatred and their teeth turned to points. They became ghouls.
The night before, Ishta Vale cooked a special meal for the staff, her infamous beef stew, but this time with a secret ingredient: the remains of Oaken. The actual ritual the priest performed wasn't to exorcise Ludra's ghost but to change the cannibalistic staff into undead monstrosities. All of the attendees charged for the door, shouting for help as the ghouls approached. But the doors wouldn't budge.
Ferociously, the horrible creatures tore into Phineas Skirvin's political allies as the Lord watched. "You killed our daughter, Skirvin. And you lied to the world. And now you suffer," proclaimed Eflor the Priest as his wife, Ishta joined him. Skirvin snapped out of his shock and drew his rapier. He was able to run Eflor through before Ishta stopped him with a spell. Then, the ghouls turned to Skirvin, paralysing the Lord of the Manor with their claws. They tore at his arms. They tore at his legs. As he screamed, they started eating him.
"No," Ishta barked at the ghouls, holding the body of her dead husband. "He doesn't get to die. He gets to live. He gets to live so he can continue to witness the horrors he brought upon this home and himself."
She set the ravenous ghouls free from the chapel. The former servants descended into Camor, committing horrible genocide on the Camorians. Meanwhile, Ishta and Esme treated Skirvin's amputated limbs ensuring he didn't bleed out. They removed his tongue and burned it on an altar to Vapul.