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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9793324" data-attributes="member: 58172">Looking at the themes -- the central narrative tropes of the official classes -- can identify the niches that still have thematic room for new class concepts.It seems worthwhile to create a Necromancer class. Its six salient themes are: Spacetime, Fear, Illusion, Ethereal, Shadow, and Astral. It works out to be an Arcane class as it shares the Illusion-Ethereal thematic pair with the other arcane classes.. Spacetime. The original meaning of necromancy, being seances to consult the dead of the collective grave of the underworld. But it extends to include the remote presence of haunted objects, places, and people, and even teleportation traveling immaterially at the speed of thought.. Fear. The otherworldly spookiness and sometimes the echoing trauma of a death or an unfinished life, can frighten the living, and even induce subjective hallucinatory phantasms.. Illusion. Ghosts sometimes manifest lifelike apparitions of themselves personally or of experiences they had during life.. Ethereal. The soul comprises various levels, ranging from transcendent cosmic to the lifeforce of a particular body. The spirit of a soul is made out of ether. It is the soul of an artist or a mage relating to selfidentity, that can grow, evolve, and influence the world. It can be a telekinetic force. This spirit of a person can disembody and travel the Border Ethereal. It is an immaterial force. A strong mind can even manipulate matter and manifest poltergeist activity. Ghosts travel outofbody from their underworld location, being partial shadows of their former lives.. Shadow. Of course, the Necromancer masters the magic of the underworld, death, and the necrosis of corpses.. Astral. There is interest in the levels of the soul elsewhere, including the afterlives beyond the spacetime fabric and among the realm of ideals. However, the Necromancer lacks the Healing theme of resurrection and restoration. The lifeforce of necromancy is vampiric theft and its immortality is Undead.</blockquote>

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