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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Testament" data-source="post: 2106643" data-attributes="member: 21833">For my homebrew, its a case of "Which one?"Death has aspects, like almost everything else, and different people focus on different ones.  There's three main ones though.First, there's the Goddess of the Dead, Armisael*, usually known to her followers as The Weeping Angel.  She represents the release of death, the ending of life and suffering and the transition from flesh to spirit; and is one of the most widely worshipped deities in human lands.  She's usually depicted as a young dark-clad woman, pale and inhumanly beautiful, eternally crying.  Needless to say, her clergy hate and despise the undead as perversions of the process.  They and those who would create them are the only thing that Her clergy will raise weapons against, they're complete pacifists otherwise (as in Vow of Peace from BoED pacifism).Second, there's Chiron, the Entity** of Death and Slaughter, representing violent and premature death.  All those taken by violence fall under his purview, as do the perpetrators of such violence.Thirdly, there's The Ending (AKA The Nameless), the little understood Entity that represents Death as a final and inevitable force.  No-one's exactly sure what it is, as it's not in the habit of explaining itself, and as an Entity, its mind is completely alien to coporeal beings.  On the rare occaisons that someone encounters The Ending and live, it has made no efforts to communicate, and has given only the tersest replies to inquiry.Most Necromancers revere Magic deities or Entities, or have Fiends as patrons.  Armisael hates the undead, and The Ending...who knows?* - Yes, for the record, I drew the name from Neon Genesis: Evangelion, and I do know what it means in English (Angel of the Womb, or of Birth, depending on translation).  I don't care, that Angel will ALWAYS be associated with death in my mind.** - The Entities are beings that embody concepts in a very raw and primal way.  Unlike Gods, they don't really have minds or portfolios, they embody their singular portfolio in a much rawer way, and do have alignments.  They predate most Gods, and while less powerful, they do grant spells.  </blockquote>

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