C276 Death Transformation
In the twenty minutes of the Reaper's transformation, if the Transcendent died, its soul would shatter and it would sink into eternal damnation. And as a sacrifice of ten thousand people, every year after that, on the night of the 19th of May, Holy Descent Day, it was absolutely necessary that a thousand people be sacrificed. If not, he would suffer a backlash from the power of the undead