User blog comment:BorosPaladin/The Shadow Isles' History/@comment-98.110.187.84-20121030010719/@comment-5441738-20121030140831

I suppose that makes sense. Still, given the eroded barrier between life and undeath on the Shadow Isles, it only makes sense that the King (and possibly a considerable number of his most trusted) was (and, given their habit of reanimating themselves, still is) a necromancer.

I don't think changing the nature of the conflict from a civil war to a king's actions upon his own people changes much about what follows: There is a King of the Shadow Isles, he has some rather powerful undead servants, and they are coming to Valoran.