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I will share my belief.
Necromancers are these evil and dark shadow-y monsters. But I believe that the “good” Necromancers use their dark and evil powers for good hence they have been forgiven and accepted as a good guy. I think the good Necromancers have found that no matter what there is no true “evil” power and all powers have a good and evil.
Though I haven’t read the GW books (yet) and hence have not been studying the lore too much so I will appreciate if any lore experts can correct me.
The view of necromancy in Tyria is a bit different than the vast majority of fantasy worlds. Historically, at least in human society, necromancy has been viewed as just another school of magic, though necromancers themselves still tend to have the stigma of being rather creepy individuals. The reason it’s accepted in human society has to do with Grenth being an even part of the pantheon and not usually depicted as a fair, if stern, god.
That said necromancers as a profession still have a higher tendency to go off the deep end and form cults or turn themselves into abominations.
As for how Sylvari view necromancers, they generally have even less stigmas against them than humans. Generally they see death as natural as life and just as other schools of magic manipulate life and the natural world there’s nothing wrong with magic that manipulates death. I don’t have any exact quotes but Killeen from Ghosts of Ascalon provides a lot of insight into this subject, being a stereotypically cheerful sylvari while also being a necromancer. At one point in the story she reanimates a soldier that the group just had to kill and the two humans in the group show some disgust at it and she is genuinely surprised that people might find reanimating corpses weird or disturbing.
Ah. So necromancy is seen as a normal magic.
Thanks for correction.
My reasoning is they are not born and just come into existence within the Dream and then learn about life there then appear under the Pale Tree, less than a year old and yet has the knowledge of an adult. :P The Dream is a fascinating backstory I wanted to delve into.
And cause they are made of plants.
Awyne – 9/10 – this reminds of Tolkien’s Arwen for some odd reason. Very nice though.
Eluned – 6/10
My Sylvari Necromancer is Autumnheart. A bit long but Autumn was taken. :/