Post:Shocking Debilitation - 06/09/2014 - 07:55

Re: Shocking Debilitation · on 06/09/2014 07:55 AM CDT	1781
>>Thanatology is a perversion of that link, so, would it be possible to have a Necromancer whose empathy was intact enough to heal people, but required Consume Flesh and a corpse to heal themselves? Thanatology isn't like 'Empathy for the dead', is it? This is more an Abasha/Persida/Armifer question but I don't think it'd be possible. Empathy and Necromancy are antithetical, though they do draw from the same well, so it seems like you'd have a matter/antimatter sort of situation if you tried to combine the two in one vessel. I think a person who actually understands the link and is not just blindly groping for outcomes without the fullness of the empathic sense could potentially be a pretty capable necromancer, but I am pretty sure at that point they would not be an Empath any longer, but a former empath. But there are no Necromancers who started out as Empaths. For some reason.
This message was originally posted in The Empaths \ General Discussions - Empaths, by DR-MELETE on the play.net forums.