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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9061946" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Splitting hairs. The magic of the Dead is the magic of Death.Viruses are weird, agreed. But yes, this is my point. You can't "remove" the disease physically, at least not as typically depicted, because it would come out as a bile or fluid. You certainly can't create a whole new body or even body parts unless you destroy the original, otherwise you just have cancer. So, a key component of healing and cleansing is... death, destruction of that which is "unclean" within the body. You can of course make something different, but frankly that is how medicine has always worked. Drugs are poison, just in small doses. Fevers are the body trying to boil invaders alive. You'd have to be specifically twisting to avoid the healing = death connections.And the vast majority of them need some form of destruction to function.Then what about things like Soul Jar that takes a soul out of a body and puts it into an object? Why is affecting only part of the soul, the lifeforce of the corpse, necromancy, but affecting the entire soul and placing the mind and self back in with the fully restored life force of the corpse NOT necromancy?</blockquote>