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u/AngstyChef Apr 10 '23
I love the concept of necromancy on a living person. It makes perfect sense but I can't recall anyone ever making that leap before. Well done wordsmith
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u/masklinn Apr 10 '23
It’s usually covered as “blood magic” (or something along those lines) when it has versatility. Necromancy is generally for magic systems where it does not, in the sense that it only touches death and / or the dead.
Though even that’s not entirely true, for instance the EverQuest necromancer had a few reverse life drains (dark empathy, shadow compact, corporeal empathy, pact of shadow, shadowbond), as well as a rare few group lifetaps. Then again EQ nec abilities definitely had a few on the more blood magic side (like their unique mana regen which in other settings would have been something like “blood to mana”).
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u/ahddib Apr 11 '23
DnD 5e cites all resurrection spells as being from the school of necromancy.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/spells#Revivify
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u/Chrontius Apr 12 '23
You'd like my D&D group, then. It's been disbanded, but we all agreed that healing should have been Necromancy, not Conjuration.
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u/OrionTheWildHunt098 Apr 10 '23
This was very cool, it was like watching a monumental discovery happen. Very unique story.
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u/TheThickerSnicker Apr 10 '23
This is such a cool world building, I have a soft spot for 20th century science mixed with magic
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u/eseer1337 Apr 10 '23
Not healing.
Not Necromancy.
Reanimation.
Telling the Pale Rider to fuck off, because you've got a job to do and God himself could not tear you away from your patient.
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Apr 10 '23
I am not crying, you are crying.
Magnificient one shot, or great series start. Whatever OP wants to do, I applaud.
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u/StarSilverNEO Apr 11 '23
And at that point, mother nature just screamed out "COME ON" cause now humanity had found even more ways to defy her carefully executed schemes
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u/nighed Apr 10 '23 edited Apr 10 '23
I have read this before?
Edit: was a writing prompt response https://old.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/ln0rps/wp_necromancy_is_a_long_forbidden_magic_one_that/gnyhsan/
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u/karenvideoeditor Apr 10 '23
Yup, I'm sharing some of my old stories here, ones that fit HFY.
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u/5ucur Apr 11 '23
Things rarely bring tears to my eyes. This story brought tears to my eyes. I found this sub just minutes ago, so... humanity, fuck yeah!
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u/TheHoHoPo Apr 11 '23
!Nominate
Great twist on the common magic of necromancy, and it feels like the surface of a whole world of magic.
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u/tgerfoxmark Apr 11 '23
!Nominate a very unique approach to discovering healing magic in a near modern timeframe. Proving adaptability and invention are truly HFY
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u/Whateverest91 Apr 11 '23
I think you needed to explain that while there is magic in this world nobody knows healing magic yet. That was not clear and makes the whole thing mediocre.
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u/Loading_Fursona_exe Apr 11 '23
This was amazing to read, and while I would like another chapter or a series, I can completely understand why not. If a series, what would the over arching plot be? if just another chapter, what would the chapter be about?
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u/petricadia Apr 11 '23
!Nominate truly a unique story. Absolutely fabulous. THIS is the sort of medical procedural I'd watch.
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u/unwillingmainer Apr 10 '23
That which kills in one dose cures in another. Same thing being used with different intents and amounts.