- Very few who attempt to join the reclusive order of hermits known as the Vindicators actually succeed -- indeed, there is only one known in all of Newerth -- and many slip into the dark, cobwebbed corners of sorcery to be lost forever. Such is the case with Alhazred the Conjurer, who became obsessed with the legendary Necronomicon, a tome that catalogs and classifies every dead soul in existence. When he came across his own name among the endless pages, the sorcerer went mad and demanded the book tell him how to return to the realm of the living. The words appeared below his name, written in blood: "Born in the cradle of death, it blooms as life wilts." And so Alhazred began his eternal search for the Hellflower, and redemption.