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Originally Posted by airwalkrr  There is certainly a place for a dread necromancer, although one such as you describe, Bohemian Ear-Spork, would undoubtedly be misunderstood by the populace at large. The class is a bit nefarious by its very nature considering it mirrors the powers of a lich with the end result of actually becoming a lich at 20th level. Such powers will undoubtedly come to taint your character's seeming mirth and goodwill as you describe it. Another angle comes to mind however; that your character is cursed somehow with these powers and fights a constant inner struggle. |
He is, although he'd indignantly deny it, a fairly arrogant soul. He knows that he's trifling with powers of a fell nature, but is absolutely convinced that he can do so without being corrupted.
Make it a curse, though...that's an interesting angle, and that could work with quite well with the fellow that I have in mind.
"Oh, aye, there's no doubt about it. I'm damned, sure as sure. But I'll be damned on my own terms, thank ye very much! My soul is my own, and I won't surrender it without a fight, and a damned bloody one at that!
"In the meantime, well, what's a man to do? Sit on his hands? I've a talent, for good or for ill, and a man is obligated to use what the gods have given him. Even if it
is a curse, it's one that has certain...applications, shall we say? True, my very touch can kill a man, freezing his very blood in his veins. But
I decide when, and how, to use that touch.
"Curse or no, that shan't change."
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