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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Necrohazard" data-source="post: 3396051" data-attributes="member: 20518">I have always thought that the lowly Animate Dead spell is considered evil because once you create one of the mindless zombies or skeletons, you open a small pin prick a “conduit” between the negative and material plane that over the years not only serves to animate the husk and bone but allows an imbalance of the positive and negative energies  within that given material plane. And that could all depend on how much this has gone on and in what quantity.  And although the negative plane itself is not evil, in and of itself .........I would venture to say that negative energy tends to draw more evil to it as a flame draws the moth, then ever does it draw beings or forces of good. So although it may seem harmless or at least less harmful to animate a simple corpse then lets say a powerful wizard changing himself into a lich and growing even more powerful through the years.......it may not be at all, it may just be a more subtle evil that tends to be overlooked more readily. If that being the case the necromancers or others who don’t see a problem in animating a few guards here or a work force for the greater good, could in fact be casing greater harm in the long run then they ever may have known withing there life time. Anyways just a thought and one take of it all.</blockquote>