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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patlin" data-source="post: 1741064" data-attributes="member: 17264">If animating the dead were simply a matter of moving the limbs of a corpse, it would be disrespectfull but not 100% evil.  The rules don't go into much detail, so it depends on what description you throw on it as to how evil it is.  When the rules say that animating the dead is evil, this is what I picture (your mileage may vary):The necromancer drew upon the twisted powers of unlife, and drew the soul of the dead man back from the void.  He sewed the immortal soul back on to the dead flesh by force, lancing it a thousand times with the corrupting power of darkness.  The soul lent motive force to the body, and it rose.  With dawning horror, the essence of the dead man became aware of more than the agony the dark power subjected it to.  In horror, it realized that it was in the world, bt not a part of it.  It lent power to its former body, but had no control over it.  Only the energies of pure evil that the necromancer had conjured gave the Zombie direction, and the tortured soul had no choice but to ride in the vessel of decay that had been created.  Subtly, on a level even the necromancer was unaware of, much of the energy from the animating spell seaped into the world, increasing the foothold of evil in the world.  In an amount to minute to measure, the necromancer pulled his world closer to the abyss.You could create a magic system where animated bodies had no moral element to them... but if you use something like the above to describe the animate dead spell, it's evil.  Simply, utterly, without possibility of redemption evil.</blockquote>

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