EverQuest II: Chains of Eternity

ARCHIVED-KniteShayd · Oct 22, 2012

Rainmare@Oasis wrote:

“Lichdom is the result of an arcane ritual. Not divine. Lichdom is the mage version of being a 'normal' revenant.
The divine can still be invoked during a ritual for a number of reasons, including the request for a boon.
Necromancy in and of itself is the magic dealing with bending the lines of life and death to suit the wielder. in fact, Necromancy would be a decided powerful tool to say, investigations into murder. the problem is that necromancy also deals primarily in decay and disease and poison.
To clarify, in Everquest lore, it deals with disease and decay. In a more general sense, Fantasy Necromancy is an arcane art that attempts to allow it's wielder mastery over death in various aspects. Spritiual Necromancy allows you to work with souls; i.e. Ghosts, Soul Capturing/Transferance, Summoning the dead in incorporeal forms. Then you have Reanimation. Golems, Patchworks, Zombies, Skellies, and Abominations are all part of that category. You work with the physicaly dead, and tinker with giving it "life"/undeath. Along with the power over death, you have the power to actually wield it in the form of plagues, diseases, curses, lifetaps, etc... So, it only deals with damage types primarily in EQ2, due to game mechanics.
while the idea of a 'good' necromancer is plausible, it's inherent power corrupts all who practice it. killing so you can make people do as you want through undeath, forcing knowledge from bound souls, poisoning and diseasing bodies and corpses to create more 'raw materials' to work with that don't have things like those valuable hand or eyes or feet missing...it's just too easy. No practioner in Norrath as been able to study and not turn to dark gods and darker paths in pursuit of the power it offers. (hence why necromancy is banned/punishable by death in 'good' cities)
From a lore perspective, it doesn't necessarily corrupt. It is, more often than not, the corrupt who seek it's power. Which in turn, has the stigma that no good people practice it. My Necro is RP'd nuetral, and practices more out of curiosity and intrigue than just to be evil. (Akin to Mayuri Kurostuchi in Bleach, with some ideological differences) Although, more evil gods are beseached for power, researching doesn't necessarily require invocation of dark power. (A concept, sadly, we have yet to see in EQ lore)
the ultimate expression of it's mastery is in Lichdom. preserving your own body into undeath and keeping your mind and soul intact in a specially prepared arcanely bound object. A phylactory
which takes years, and years, and years of intense study and preperation. and even then can easily backfire on you (Venril's original attempt, Miragul getting stuck in the Eternal Prism and fragmented)
A shadowknight simply does not dedicate enough of his time and energy to do what he'd have to to become undead.
Correct, because if he/she did they'd be a necro. And EQ Game mecahnics do not allow for players to multi class. SK's simply learn spells to accomplish what they want done, or are granted abilities much like Pally's are for being an evil disciple to and evil deity.

now that I'm ranted and raved a bit...the spell Soul Siphon is basically a form of Lifetap. the souls being siphined in the description are sould being ripped out of the body and pulled into Ethernere hence 'siphoned' from the material world to the ethereal one.”

ARCHIVED-General_Info · Oct 22, 2012

Euri@Antonia Bayle wrote:

“Rainmare@Oasis wrote:

“To clarify, in Everquest lore, it deals with disease and decay. In a more general sense, Fantasy Necromancy is an arcane art that attempts to allow it's wielder mastery over death in various aspects. Spritiual Necromancy allows you to work with souls; i.e. Ghosts, Soul Capturing/Transferance, Summoning the dead in incorporeal forms. Then you have Reanimation. Golems, Patchworks, Zombies, Skellies, and Abominations are all part of that category. You work with the physicaly dead, and tinker with giving it "life"/undeath. Along with the power over death, you have the power to actually wield it in the form of plagues, diseases, curses, lifetaps, etc... So, it only deals with damage types primarily in EQ2, due to game mechanics.”

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I'm not sure about golems being reanimated as much as them just being animated. you can learn in the greater faydark that the magic used to reanimate dead bodies is the same/similar magic used to animate inanimate objects. in the greater faydark as the golems upstream wear away with the passage of time the animation magic flows downstream and starts reanimating the skeletons buried beneath the wizard spire

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