Er, you can turn around now. But yes, healers and necromancers are naturally at odds, though most magicians are at odds with necromancy. It is a vile craft practiced by only the most amoral individuals, ones with no scruples in controlling a corpse. Imagine finding your loves ones have rising from the grave, serving as slaves for a monster. Who does that willingly? Who chooses that life?
[Not him, certainly... and yet, here he is, able to control the dead at will. It's a sickening fate for a man who spent his entire life as a healer, as a servant of his goddess, as a Longinmouth -- and now he's a failure at all three through no fault of his own.]
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Er, you can turn around now. But yes, healers and necromancers are naturally at odds, though most magicians are at odds with necromancy. It is a vile craft practiced by only the most amoral individuals, ones with no scruples in controlling a corpse. Imagine finding your loves ones have rising from the grave, serving as slaves for a monster. Who does that willingly? Who chooses that life?
[Not him, certainly... and yet, here he is, able to control the dead at will. It's a sickening fate for a man who spent his entire life as a healer, as a servant of his goddess, as a Longinmouth -- and now he's a failure at all three through no fault of his own.]