The Dead too Must Work

 

Some time ago, a wizard by the name of Edward Horsehair, decided he needed an easier and less deadly method of acquiring gold than raiding and exploring abandoned and occupied dungeons, caverns, keeps, castles, and similar places. Essentially, he wanted to be wealthy and powerful but not work for it. He devised a plan whereby he would animate some dead and put them to work digging a mine and searching for precious ore, gems, minerals, or any other riches the earth might hold. After doing this for some time and gathering a bit of gold, Edward Horsehair died of a heart attack. So attached to his undertaking was he that his spirit did not cross to the realms of the dead but remained, in the mines, with the animated dead, still digging.