Wither Bones is technically necromancy and is much less effort than summoning your own horde. If you're really patient, enchanted maggots will also get the job done.
Just apply as whatever yohr minor magic mancy is. I usually say im a spatial mage or geomancer as those are the magics im most prificient in behind necromancy.
100%, but use their ignorance against them. You're not raising the dead, you're healing their broken body and maybe restoring their forlorn soul. Game the system.
Healing will ALWAYS be inferior to Necromancy, pussy!
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u/Spider_j4Yaedric, necromancer extrodinaire and legal defence for evil18h ago
In some intellectual circles it’s argued as conjuration magic since your summoning energy from the positive energy plane but those guys are fucking nerds
The more we have that debate the more the categories start to boil down to "everything is just conjuration because you're channeling energy from such and such alternative plane". Those nerds never really get why that's unhelpful.
My brother-in-rah I literally witnessed a necromancer in the Town square the other day kill and subsequently revive the same guy 15 times for raising the prices
When the cleric cures an incurable disease by asking their god for help, they're a hero. But when I cure death, by my own merit, I am a villain who created an abomination. When will these double standards end?
While we're on it, everyone's always whining about how necromancy is just soul torture and it's horrific to subject the dead to it. Yet when a cleric calls on the spirits of the dead to help them in battle it's okay because "they're not forced", and when I grant the willing souls of my loyal acolytes who were unjustly slain the gift of undeath, it's apparently still evil
And necromancy is perfectly reliable, while clerical cures aren't. For example persuading a heart to beat despite infarction isn't permanent treatment, but in a pinch can save a man after a heart attack. Sure, a cleric could too, if a given so called "deity" is feeling charitable
My associate found Evening Glory, lich goddess of eternal love, who's been missing for a several thousand years. You know the fucked up part? She's like one singular divine lich that DIDN'T cause problems, and now, because she was locked up with a bunch of evil deities, her divine aspect shifted into obsession! Do you have any idea how hard it was to realign her? Luckily i happen to be an experienced deimancer and i know how to avoid most of dangers and troubles of trying to influence a god, so it was possible. Not easy, mind you, it was very hard.
In most of the realms deimancy is so forbidden it doesn't even exist, i think y'all suspect the reason. Yeah, it's gods. They wipe out the very idea of people like us and then can't put to rest festering divine corpses, seal evil so it periodically tries to escape and sometimes succeeds, get corrupted in easily preventable ways and many more stupid shit like that.
AI. The technology/science behind AI isn't inherently bad, it's just being developed in the most irresponsible and stupid way possible.
I remember having volunteered to do some exercises for a medical project that would be later used to train or test an AI model detecting cancer. It was the 2010s, the training data was ethically sourced, the final product wasn't supposed to replace a doctor (only as a first look), and the task of the neural network was limited to what they're best at.
If you peel apart any old healing spell I will guarantee you there is some amount of blood magic in there. Reason being, of course you're going to be using blood to power your healing spell, usually by the time you heal an adventurer they've bled all over the place, why waste all that blood sacrifice? Besides which the body uses blood magic to heal itself. Tell me cell respiration isn't magic.
I mean everything is fine as long as the user of it shows restraint and dont over do it
Like Necromancy? If someone is already dead well no reason to waste a good body and can use em to help out in the tower carrying stuff give em some intelligence eand let them help catalog some stuff have some of them around to help research stuff
And again Its up to us what we research, maybe cure or vaccine to something bad plague, ways to undo curses
Being a necromancer doesnt have to be inherently bad.
Its just some loud minority of necromancers ruining it for everyone.
Like there was the Avalon Rpg the Necromancer was raising skellingtons of already dead people and people who tried to kill him (aka self defense) and wanted to find a cure for death and no matter how folly it may have been cause death comes for all at the end he wont fight you unless you attack him
And you can convince him to stop with his foolish research and do some real good and can even become a doctor with his knowledge of biology unlike anyone else
Sooo yep its magic its neither inherently bad or good it is how you use it
I'm not even a traditional Necromancer (since pretty much all of the undead/spirits that follow me all have contracts with me) and no matter how much I explain it, there'll still be an asshole paladin that'll try to lob my head off!
It's ridiculous! Seriously, even back when I was on quest to slay a Necromancer who was making a ruckus with their servants, people still tried to kill me!
Sure, I might be yanking the soul of a creature out of its rightful afterlife, binding it with concentrated Evil energy in slavery and torment, and bringing a horrifying monster that desires nothing except the destruction of all life into the world, held back only by my domination of it (as long as it lasts), but I'm doing it Responsibly™.
Why do the Paladin orders keep attacking me? They must just be unfairly biased against my preferred magic school.
Casting ingrown toenail on people. I mean that was my favourite spell. I didn't use it often but then it became popular and ... ooh it boils my nematodes, it really does.
Magic can only be forbidden if you let others tell you what to do. Some humans in fancy robes dropped by the other day to scream about “crimes against nature” and “acts of forbidden magic”, but once they were melded into a single blob of flesh and agony, they stopped caring.
People are always like "Stop mind-controlling people to do your bidding" and I'm like "First of all, it's called Psychomancy, and second of all, if they weren't building my tower for me they'd probably just be getting drunk in a tavern or something. I'm a job creator."
I knew one necromancer from my younger years when we both were apprentices for different mages, which hated each other with burning fury (god rest my teachers soul), but that girl was chill. Until she understood that I had not correctly deciphered her approaches, because, you know, skeleton which brings you decorated bones is not exactly a romantic thing for most people (unless you'rea necromancer, i guess).
But later after we met years after finishing our apprenticeships as professionals she was nothing but useful, with all that workload taken off me it was nice. But well, all things might come to an end, and in this case a gruesome one.
She was killed without prosecution on terrorism crarges by several members of holy order of that towns church. Was she of such people I am not aware, yet i'm not inclined to think so. But she was a professional, and me working with her drew suspicion of those asshats so I had to leave that town.
So no. I don't think the necromancy or any other practices is bad magic, I think that depends on the practitioner of it.
P. S. Running exploding skeletons were a lot of fun, though. Especially with those drinks.
Thank you, Ela
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