User blog comment:Caporai/Horatio the Herald of Death/@comment-67.213.248.235-20120911052527/@comment-83.251.244.207-20120911091215

You can say that, The story should be connected with Yorick, where Horatio is the culprit who stole what Yorick where searching for, his corpse.

He's the AP version of Yorick, with the mix from Zyra (Rampant Growth), and Vladimir (Sanguine Pool). The pet may be the same, especially Bone Ghoul and Ravenous Ghoul acts the same, but Flesh Ghoul acts as a meat shield which will soak most of the damage.

Also Horatio uses health for the spell cost.

Yorick is a death knight who uses his ghouls and revenant to aid him while he gets empowered from his innate. (kinda say he leans closely to necromancy and he's a Bruiser AD caster)

Horatio is a necromancer who uses his health to deal damage and to summon ghouls,

Horatio may not be stronger than Yorick as a Bruiser and Horatio uses health, but with the help from his pet and his innate, he can gain his health back. Horatio is Bruiser AP caster who needs to combine spells similar as Zyra in order to summon his ghouls.