Jolly Reapers

The Order of Jolly Reapers are an ancient necromantic cult. They view the Abyss as a dark heaven, and cherish death as if it were as beautiful as life.

Practices
Reapers are frequent grave robbers. In the days of Witchmen tyranny, some condemned individuals were turned into immobile but sentient undead beings after being executed, so that they could suffer as they rotted in the grave after being buried. Reapers would roam around and dig up these graves and kill these cadavers as an act of mercy. Of course, they robbed ordinary graves as well, to raise skeletons and ghouls.

Reapers are despised by most ordinary folk for their depraved acts of necrophilia, both with undead and regular cadavers. They are known for being able to brew a special tea that causes people to (happily) wish for death, which is what they give to all of their sacrifices.

A popular superstition is that Reapers use bones as instruments, and raise skeletons to serve as dancers.