Year 246
Yarlac Drem resigns from his position as court-mage in the King of Thairmar. His work of necromancy becomes his utmost of study nowadays, being in such of a position found that Drem was constantly distracted with other inane tasks for a household he didn't care for. King Mahen was confused at Yarlac's sudden resignation, but agreed on his release.
To go further in his studies, Yarlac Drem had to go some place where he could have a reliable source of bodies to work with.. then it hit him while he was travelling on the road- he was to move to the growingly wealthy, but notorious city of Lotham in Arghila. It would seem every week the Crier of King Mahen's court when Yarlac was still a court-mage would bring downright crazy words of the ongoings in that city- bloody field-battle worthy fights on the streets, numerous high profile smugglers lodging in the city, corrupt guardsmen, thousands dying a day- almost anything! Yarlac was sure to have an ample supply without anyone noticing strange going on with him or someone disturbing his studies.
When he arrives to Lotham he quickly purchases a meat shop property in the inner-city portion of Lotham that seemingly has an extensive underground storage network, which is a perfect place to set up his "lair" of a sort. Not being interested in actually running the shop, he rents out the store floor space to unassuming professional Butchers in his new neighborhood who lost their store to city-bandits. The rent money he will collect from them will help Yarlac along with his research, along with gaining some animal parts to study with, not only some taken from human bodies as he plans to do.
Further in the year when he gets settled in, Yarlac has the first successful reanimations- some skeletons he gathered from a cemetery and one full bodied Slugman. The Slugman was presumably a pirate of some sort due to his squabbled together lamellar-marine armor and scimitar Yarlac had found in his coffin. Yarlac has the simple skeletons equipped from cleavers from the shop level and has his Slugman pirate become his prime lieutenant due to still having his sapience somehow. Rightfully the Slugman is ever grateful to be brought back to "life" and is indebted loyalty to Yarlac.
With this coming all about, Yarlac studies into necromancy increases by an exponential mount as he gathers more and more dark tombs to read from..