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Elly, a skilled necromancer specializing in laying undead back to rest. she’s also Daisy’s wife, though she’s often away on work trips - usually cleaning up after yet another irresponsible mage that tried to raise a skeleton army. it never works, guys, at least get some more creative evil plans
her body is sort of shaped like a feather cloak. she has an indeterminate number of legs underneath it, which she can also use as hands (the limit is “however many can convincingly fit when i draw her”)
i love elly!
i love everything about her.
her overall aesthetic + her mysterious/cool body horror element suits her, which i guess is sort of like a reverse necromancer??
thank you so much!! yeah, in a way :D in this setting, necromancy is the overall term for any death-related magic! although the "resurrecting" kind is a lot more common to see than the reverse. she has her work cut out for her.
that's really cool!
she's definitely found her niche, aha
...and i wrote a bunch of questions if you want to answer, but i think that they're mainly just the same question rephrased in different ways.
in your setting, if necromancy is just any death‑related magic, then is the focus of necromantic magic on death itself?
or is the focus still on the manipulation of life energy, just in more death‑y contexts?
i guess put another way, are the undead risen by necromancers in your setting animate due to moving life energy into dead things in artificial ways?
or are they animate due to manipulation of death itself?
so like, when elly necromances an undead to redead, is she just undoing its artificial life energy?
or is she undoing whatever is manipulating the undead's death?
or just something else altogether?
either way, i guess that they all seem pretty different from the typical cleric method of destroying undead with divine magic!
.......though, if your undead can be put to rest, does this imply that they still possess a soul or spirit??
i mean, i guess that this might be what distinguishes necromancy from like just animating empty corpses with some other magic (which, in some sense, would be like a false undeath — so false false life)
oooo thank you for the questions!! i have some answers to all these, but i want to make some drawings to go with them, so it may be a few days!
😮!! i'll be looking forward to them!
did you want me to send an ask?
perhaps something a little more broad, like ”how does necromancy work in your world?“ ?
naw this works fine!! although i probably will screenshot and post it separately (and @ you of course ^^)
honestly, i really like some of the specific questions you asked!! it helped me nail down some details on the magic system that i hadn't thought about before!
