Hardin's Academy is not a place you enter simply out of curiosity. Necromancers live here. To them, human blood, fat, bones and skin are just magical ingredients. They can kill with greater cruelty than the most brutal Dark Elves. Master Hardin is one of the greatest necromancers of all time. They say that he is capable of taking on Beleth himself. Hardin was once a mage in the Ivory Tower, but he really didn't like it there. All the teachers seemed to him arrogant fools, and Hardin himself, together with Beleth, began to study dark magic. They began communicating with the Dark Elves, looking for the secret manuscripts of Desparion. And in the end, having gained power, they left the Tower. But while Beleth became an evil half-demon magician, Hardin founded his own school, which began to rival the Tower in its influence. Despite his interest in dark magic, Hardin swore an oath to Aden, and from now on his students go to serve the king to fight evil. The Lich King Icarus also lives in the cave - his magic and knowledge of necromancy is truly unsurpassed! But although he seems free, he is always invisibly controlled by Hardin. If it weren’t for Hardin, then it’s still unknown what kind of things the Lich King would have done... The very cave in which the school is located used to belong to Icarus himself. Hardin says he won it from Icarus by playing dice. “And rightly so, because he used her for his dark deeds” - Master Hardin.