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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5622572" data-attributes="member: 4937">Players, don't read:[spoiler]Only outsiders to the art call it 'necromancy' in fear and disgust.  The learned refer to the most noble of the arcane arts as 'vivomancy'.  We do not study the dead; we study life.  As a physician must study corpses in order to one day eventually master the knowledge of anatomy and chi necessary to perform surgery and mighty works of healing, so to the vivomancer must make his abode among the dead and make a study of the darkest arts - not for the sake of mastery of those arts, but to ultimately learn the greatest secret - the miracle of life itself.  Think of the possibilities that would be unlocked should man come to understand the powers of life!  Unlimited healing, unlimited food, the end of sickness, the end of decay, the end of poverty, and ultimately triumph over death itself!  It is no wonder the gods of heaven forbid our art and call it evil!  They fear the power that they we may obtain and jealously gaurd their secret understanding so that we must grovel before them for the simpliest of cures.  But one day, we will finally be able to storm their gates, unbar their doors, and take what ought to be ours by right.  Then, we will share life itself with anyone that asks.  Seriously, do you think I love murder, or death, or the decay pestulant corpse, or the dark dank coldness of a tomb?  I tell you I love none of these things, but it is necessary that I endure them for the ultimate good of all free peoples.  I want a world of life and light and joy.  Don't blame me if the only power I'm allowed to wield is over death; blame those that have hidden understanding and barred to doors to power!  Yes, it's true that for the most part our search has be futile and unproductive.  We have mastered granting the semblence of life and extending only existence and not true vitality.  But as all power flows from its source to its opposite, so to is it true that positive power flows to and is controlled by its conduction to the negative.  Direct manipulation of the positive may be barred from us for a time, but eventually with true mastery of the negative we can make ourselves masters over the positive as well and claim for ourselves a bit of the treasury of Heaven.  Then will everyone hail us as heroes and their eyes will be opened to the true evil in the world![/spoiler]</blockquote>

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