Voltus is a young mage just coming into his powers. The bad part is just as he became a mage his master died in a spell backlash. He wandered around the world for a while lost and confused. Deep in the woods away from civilization he created a house shaping the earth into walls and turning them to stone. He realized he could create a 9' X 9' house of 2" thick stone in just a few minutes barely taxing his powers. Every day he practiced making new houses sometimes joining them together to make larger ones. With his artistic ability he created fancy scroll work on the houses and statues of stone and metal in the gardens. His mind became clear he was to build a city for when they would come. The area quickly turned into a small village of no one and Voltus was not able to keep back the forest from reclaiming his city. Voltus took to animating corpses to do the manual labor of keeping the city clean until they come. He travels the world but every night he returns to his city to add on and improve it. Some times brining back a new corpse to be animated. From: http://gamerscloset.blogspot.com/2011/06/npc-wednesday.html