The Magician

I decided to imagine them as being necromancers, responsible specially for raising skeletons and headless armors from the dead and putting them to fight in the service of Death Gull`s forces. Nobody knows `who` or `what` they were when living, or even if they were once alive. They were presumably people who died of uncontrollable deadly plagues that always devastates the southern lands of the continent and creates piles of dead bodies very often, which decompose quickly due to the high temperatures and the lack of people available to bury them. When the bodies are taken by Death Gull`s henchmen, they are dragged to corrupted churches and exposed to rituals that will eventually give them the ability to walk again and cast profane spells.
Another thing people know for sure about them is the nauseating graveyard smell noticed leagues away and predicting a sequence filled with swarms of armed skeletons. Everything in them represents death and degradation.