Backbone of the Industrial Age

Gu Thal'Ra (eternally may he reign) the Ancient Lich has spent his last 700 years at the peak of the arcane arts and utterly bored out of his mind during his endless quest for divinity. With no sudden epiphanies in sight he has resigned himself away from his ambitious 'young' self and has since been secluded in his castle worming through ancient grimoires for a breakthrough. One day he reads the mind of an otherworldly hero sent to take him down, he realizes what his world could be and decides to entertain himself on a new and exciting quest of brutally changing the stagnant order of his world with the technologies he glimpsed from the hero's mind.