...and as someone who has read that book several times during my knuckle-scavenging prowls through the Von Zeklos crypts, I assumed that the crypts
were once pure and consecrated to Ezra, but the powers of darkness (or perhaps the Dark Powers themselves) corrupted the crypts, animated all the corpses and came to threaten the sanctity of the nearby keep and its Ezrite shrine. Ezra's hand on the Von Zeklos crypts just wasn't strong enough to push the tides of darkness away, in this instance.
What would the Ezrites think of
that?