Scroyle (illustrated by Max Rugers)

Petrefax, under the instruction of his teacher Klaproth, is assigned to partake in an air burial on the lower reaches of Mount Calamon. The air burial is being performed by Master Hermas and his two apprentices Mig and Scroyle.

Scroyle is a citizen of the Necropolis Litharge and he came to live in the Necropolis when he was eight years old, after his father died.

At the air burial, each person attending the burial must tell a story and Scroyle told the story of the day he met a stranger, who, unbeknownst to him was Destruction, told him about an older Necropolis which is no longer named and how it was destroyed because there was no care, no respect and no love given to the dead from the citizens of the Necropolis. Once this old Necropolis was destroyed, Litharge became the new Necropolis.

Scroyle was drawn by Max and he did a wonderful job with the character. He captured the eerie presence of this citizen of the Necropolis.