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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7807037" data-attributes="member: 1465">A necromancer character based on ancient-world cultures and mythologies such as Egyptian or Greek would be fine. For them, necromancy is mostly about communicating with the dead (ghosts), or even helping the dead reaching their proper afterlife destination.However, modern mythology around necromancy is pretty much all about zombies and their variants i.e. making the dead come back, in horrible forms, to be your slaves or go wreck havoc on their own, and generally bring doom to the living. This is actually what 90% of the players have in mind when they decide to create a necromancer character.Movies and videogames have done their best to overwhelm modern culture with monsters, and zombies seem to be among their favourites. So perhaps most people are now sort of "anesthesised" against the image of an undead and think they wouldn't blink if they actually encountered one in real life, they would just hit it with a stick or shoot it with a gun like they do all the time in movies, what's the problem? Maybe someone even daydreams about it, how cool it would be to fight zombies in real life... but I would like to see the look on their faces if it REALLY happened! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> But seriously, the world is full of people who consider harmless and even beneficial stuff like contraception socially unacceptable because "it messes up with life" or is "against nature", but reanimating a corpse and force it go around killing people is ok?</blockquote>

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