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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 6183035" data-attributes="member: 52734">This is getting silly, but I'll throw in my two cents.Yes, gods and petitioners care about the desecration of corpses.  A low-level necromancer may only be able to use the husk to abscond with the body and the petitioner might never know, but more powerful magic could possibly drag the individual out of the afterlife and back to the material world (creating things such as vampires or other other intelligent undead - possibly even thousands of years after the original individual has died).In the game, some societies may burn or otherwise mutilate the corpse so this cannot occur (such as in Rokugan, where corpses are burned to prevent them being reanimated by maho or Shadowlands taint).Some game societies may have rules and/or gods that allow the corpse to be reanimated and reused and it may even be ritualized in a way to a be a lawful and prudent thing to do (such as the Charonia do in Jakandor).And while the Negative Material Plane is itself a neutral force, it is a force of hunger and devouring.  Undead created by it, as one might see from myths and story are creatures driven by uncontrollable hunger and negative emotions inspired by that hunger.  Liches tend to hunger for knowledge and/or power.  Vampires crave the blood of the living.  Ghouls crave flesh of the living, spectres and wraiths the very life breath of the living - and so forth.   We even joke about it with zombies and "braaaains".  (Though I've not seen stories of "skeletons" hunger - I guess they're the exception, famine spirits too far gone to consume anything).  Necromancers who create this stuff then are essentially seen as the creators of unnatural famines - they are inflicting a sort of misery for their own aggrandizement.</blockquote>

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