I. Prologue -
“When farmers leave their crops unattended, they pay with failed harvest, and are sure to starve. When a commander fails to lead, they pay with dead soldiers, but one day many lay dead, the next they stand crooked, unliving. Take care of your fallen comrades, necrosis is a mold that is most unholy.”— Excerpt, book of the Dead.
Far and few between, the understanding of what binds a being together is often ascribed from religiosity or scientific comprehension and of the many scholars of either or, one certain agreement from world to the next, is one does not mess with Necromancy. In when it has been scarcely seen, it left but the seer perturbed.
Magic can be benevolent or malevolent, like a sword being used by a respondent Knight or devilish brigand, however Necromancy is a stint in this principle. The proponents of this field of witchcraft once suggested that the unnatural revival of a corpse didn’t have to be bad, a dead man could hide secrets, or provide temporary protection, but advocates of Necromancy are nothing if not quiet, either hiding in crypts or hung on spikes. For when Necromancy is cast, it is as if the World wishes to withdraw consent of what is about to happen.
II. History [BC] -
The concept of life is well known to many, and in the various glen, glades and verdant bog, life exists in a state of near excess, a divine warmth that bewilders the natives or that the peoples may fawn over its beauty in remark. Death is the end of life, through natural or unnatural means. The degeneration of vitality, the force which composes the living, occurs as a prelude to the sudden loss of life.
In the more primitive times, it was all but rare. So came the many stories that detail encounters of the unliving. But despite such, from the dawn of known civilizations being recorded, the warnings are demeaned to exhausted tall-tales one tells to their child, so that they may not frolic past the sharp of eight.
The practice of Necromantic witch-craft seemed to have dated far back during the first early recordings of Arcana itself, but knowledge of this is barred from any scroll, tapestry or shelf, leaving people to rely on merely word of mouth. Whispers come between the cracks of the handful of Occult practitioners who raise armies.
