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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yesway Jose" data-source="post: 5623567" data-attributes="member: 6679265">My best shot: He's secular and logical, necromantic energy is no more inherently evil than nuclear energy. He's doesn't enjoy socializing with common folk, they're a bit dull and stupid and provincial, and he prefers his dark tower and black cape and he only comes down to the village to buy groceries. He's not stupid, he recognizes that undead are distasteful to society, but he think it's better to send an undead into a dragon's den than risk a human life. He's not exactly crazy about zombies either (they stink really badly, drop pieces of flesh constantly and stain the sofa, and are magnets for flies, maggots and diseases).  His ultimate goal is to create intelligent undead, not something powerful like an intelligent vampire which is impossible to control, but an intelligent talking skeleton or talking skull that is more useful than a dumb animated one. He does worry about inciting an angry village mob and he wants to do the right thing, so he has some houserules and best practices. Always get a full consent form from the family of the deceased, before digging up a body. Always avoid an awkward meeting with someone's undead friend or loved one. Try to animate the dead of orcs, goblins, etc. instead of humans. For practical purposes, he rarely animates messy stinky maggot-ridden disease-carrying zombies. He has a vat of acid in his home. He throws the body in and lets the acid do the work. He knits the bones back together with iron pegs. He may paint the bones with bright colors and/or dress them up in clothes, whatever it takes to make them look less undead. Then they're not so bad after all.</blockquote>

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