Post:Necromancy and the Necessity of Evil - 09/25/2018 - 20:28

Necromancy and the Necessity of Evil · on 09/25/2018 20:28	860
>>So, really, I guess my question is: Can you give any indication as to how dangerous Philosophers actually are, when it comes to risking "destroying all of Creation to attain it"? I'm not going to give a direct answer to this one, but will give some food for thought. So, let's also talk about the nature of the threat. Necromancy is problematic in two related but distinct ways. A) Like every High Sorcery and some regular magic, it produces "bleed in" from other planes. The planar void is breached and two planes come into direct contact. In this case a portion of the physical laws and substance of the planes exchange hands. Every single time an incursion of sufficient size happens (whatever size that may be), the world becomes a little more demon-y or Immortal-y or Probability...y. The cosmological constants subtly (or, in the Lyras example, not very subtly) change. B) The Hunger is probably still scheming to break in and eat you. Its desire to aid and empower Necromancers is a little damning in its own right. I talked a lot about A in the previous post, but that is probably the lesser of the two direct threats and, like I mentioned, people other than Necromancers also contribute to it. The Hunger is harder to ignore, and until you learn what its game is there's no way for a PC to know exactly how big of a fire any individual Philosopher is playing with. -Armifer
This message was originally posted in The Necromancers / Roleplaying the Necromancer, by DR-ARMIFER on the play.net forums.