World Of Darkness
The necklace was a gift from his father, who gave it to him before he knew that Viktor would not be his successor and that he would instead be a Wizard.
As the son of a priest of the god of death, Viktor knew the profession of his father, it could be said that Viktor possessed all the necessary skills to be a worthy Priest of the god of death.
That night, Vikto himself laid out the body of his father in the funeral chapel, but as he looked at the corpse lying on the slab, it was not his father that he saw, but his mother.
Viktor watched over his father himself, performed the prayers for the deceased along with the other funeral rites. When he finished, he fell asleep on the cold stone floor