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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Takhisis" data-source="post: 5161874" data-attributes="member: 89689">Indeed, hence why I mentioned the dread necromancer made by ThePlanesWalker in the original post. It is in fact a shadow power source controller, with leader as a secondary.(Though you can build it to be a decent leader if you know what your doing.) There are other homebrew necromancers on the web, but all of them that I have seen are not completed beyond the heroic tier. Thus, the "Dread Necromancer" works great as a necro for now, though I would love an official wizards class.As for heroic Necromancers, I have seen a series which features a main character that is in fact a Necromancer. I forget the name of the series, however. Also, "dark mages" have been heroic in a few anime/manga series as well as some American comics. The Slayers had a "heroic" dark mage I forget the name of. Yugioh has the Dark Magician and Dark Magician girl.  Raven of the Teen Titans comes to mind as a "dark mage" who is heroic from western comics. While not exactly necromancers, those characters show the idea of a mage who uses dark magic for good is not uncommon in fiction and could easily translate into 4e as a Necromancer or some other class with a "dark" flavor, such as the "Shadowcaster."</blockquote>