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Necromancy: for the win
Liger:
I know that you want to hear but with the restrictions that you have posted it takes a bit of creativity to figure something out.
That being said the idea that I had was prehaps he could use his abilities to heal. I know it may sound contradictory to the rules you set, but there are many afflictions which cause scar or dead tissue to be within the human body. Maybe he can help with that, I don't know how much he needs to have to be able to work with. Also you said he could manipulate diseases so does this mean that he could lessen their effects if not cure individuals of it. Or if you don't like that idea then I think you wrote something about him being able to only destroy? Maybe he can use this to destroy the viruses or bacteria which cause the sickness.
I don't know what direction you want to take this in, but I hope that this helps. :)
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on April 25, 2010, 09:07:05 AM ---now what i need help with is that i am trying to find some ways for my character to use his powers over death to help people and not be to over powered. i have some ideas but i am always open for more.
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Sorry that I haven't replied. I fear that necromancy is one of those genres that hold no interest for me whatsoever. Ghosts fall into the same category for me. There are so many ideas out there already from variations on Ghost Whisperer, which can easily be adapted to necromancy, to Dead Like Me to other television series--all again easily adaptable, including a couple episodes of Who and Torchwood.
You will need to find a rock solid commercial/marketing niche to find something new and unique in your concept and in your story lines to make it different. Maybe I'd swing on board if it was a cat that did this in companionship with some Angel of Death or something.
Placing a time limit on the reanimation would limit the 'god qualities' and put the ticking clock on the mystery solving etc, but lets face it, you're screwing with life/death which is god like.
Actually on re-reading, I rather like the cat concept. Hard to over god power a cat... Its not at all what you are interested in with your concept so it's going into my own "someday" when I'm bored and I want to try something new. :-) See ideas squirt out everywhere...
svb1972:
it sounds like your necromancers are actually manipulating death magic.
Some ideas for "helping people'"
If he can command dead flesh, he can deal with disease and infections. Not the traditional way of course, but basically he could 'collect' the dead flesh/things in someone and take them out of the body. Imagine all of the dead cells in someone's body leaving thruogh their pores along with the disease. Gangreen, blood disease.
Sounds like he should be able to muck with a Trained Necromancer pretty seriously. Causing them to lose control over their zombies, etc.
What happens if he uses death magic to remove the death out of spoiled food?
Can he take a piece of meat, and seperate out the spoiled part and leave behind something clean?
Necromancers can't touch souls. That's a tough one, because necromancy is usually the Magic of Souls.
In your world, how do you explain ghosts? Do they exist? Do They not, if they do.. why do they exist. If the Angel of Death comes and takes the souls away at the point of Death.. is there such a thing as the restless dead?
Why is someone born a Necromancer. Are there Born Lifemages? are they opposites?
What does Necromancy mean in your world.
Nickeris86:
lots of good questions here i'll try to answer all of them. and i really like some of the ideas around disease. i apologize for being vague but i was trying to fallow the rule of the forum of not giving out plot of our stories for copy right reasons.
any way lets dive in.
first of all true born necromancers are created by the angel of death. through some fluke of fate they were still born but weren't on the List so Azriel has to correct the mistake. basically these people were literally touched by the hand of death as he put their soul back in their body and that connection to death never fades, though most never realize that its there. that's why he has such a aversion to the nasty necromancy because his power is forged of natural death not its perversion.
as for ghosts, they do exists but they are imprints of very strong emotions left behind by the dead, they aren't whole so the restless dead to exist they just aren't the actual persons soul. more like a really powerful memory. there are also other creatures that are drawn to and forged from emotion that are like ghosts but they are more like wild animals that feed on the energy given off by the emotions that created them.
as for born life mages yes they do exist but i haven't developed them nearly as much as because they aren't going to show up until later in the story. and in my world the energy of creation or "white magic" can be used for just as nefarious a purpose as "dark magic" its all just different energies of nature. its in the same manner that neither winter or summer is really evil one is just more destructive or predatory than the other.
i placed so many limitations on him because i want him to think and be smart and not just solve all his problems by eviscerating people or giving them the clap. i also looked up what the definition of necromancy was and it originally was a form of deviation by getting information from spirits or reading entrails, and that's kinda the direction i have him heading in. he actually makes his day to day money by being a median.
one of the powers i thought up for him is that doing a little ceremony in which he places a drop of his blood (blood holds a lot of power) on the sensory receptors (eye, ears, nose, what have you) of a relatively fresh corpse he can experience their sensations within the last moments of life if the death was strong enough leave an lasting imprint. its informative but not a fun experience, plus its hard to get your hands on murder victims remains. he does not start out with any affiliation to law enforcement.
Gruud:
--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on May 10, 2010, 09:03:31 PM ---one of the powers i thought up for him is that doing a little ceremony in which he places a drop of his blood (blood holds a lot of power) on the sensory receptors (eye, ears, nose, what have you) of a relatively fresh corpse he can experience their sensations within the last moments of life if the death was strong enough leave an lasting imprint. its informative but not a fun experience, plus its hard to get your hands on murder victims remains.
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I like this. Very nice.
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