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Necromancy and those that practice it
DominicJ:
The First Von Carstein Vampire to rule a province of the empire did raise an army of zombies and skeletons to try and conquer the world (or empire at least) but he wasnt "evil" in any great sense.
He raised an army from his Human subjects as well as his zombie army, and didnt exterminate human populations he conquered.
There was also a short lived kingdom in which the king was in possession of the Crown of Nagash, and they just used zombies as slave labour in the fields.
LizW65:
Terry Pratchett's Making Money plays with this; the wizards' university Department of Necromancy has re-named itself the Department of Postmortem Communications, since they're very genre-savvy and recognize that all necromancers are supposed to be evil.
Nickeris86:
the anita blake series but after a while the story takes a sharp turn away from her powers as a necromancer and just focuses on her supernatural sex life, it gets rather boring after that.
Sabriel (i think thats how its spelled) has a good necromancer but she uses her skills to more to banish evil undead creatures and commune with the dead rather then raising them.
i don't remember the authors name but there is a series in which the main character is a necromancer of sorts, the tittles of the two that i have are the Summoner and Blood King, and their also pretty good.
i am also writing a book in which the main character is a Necromancer who uses his power to help people who are being haunted as well as other supernatural weirdness.
Starbeam:
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i don't remember the authors name but there is a series in which the main character is a necromancer of sorts, the tittles of the two that i have are the Summoner and Blood King, and their also pretty good.
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This is the Gail Martin series I couldn't think of.
Thrythlind:
most real world style occult interactions with the dead are benevolent and respectful, asking for advice and communing with ancestors mostly...in the Odyssey, it is not so much that the ghosts are dangerous in and of themselves but the fact that humans are innately fearful of mortality that makes Odysseus and his men nervous
in one of my game settings, necromancy itself is a neutral art and there are both good and evil undead (the terms would be ancestor and ghoul)....it is, however, considered rude in that setting to animate a dead body without permission...the connected spirit (if it hasn't crossed over completely) might be forgiving in extreme cases
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