Dumb Thought

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So, I’ve been thinking alot recently about just how necromancy is necromancy. I think that it is still a binary function in order to allow all six forces to wield it.

The thing about this process is that 3 forces use necromancy in one direction and the other 3 use it in the other. This binary of necromancy also allows the duality trait of the forces to be consistent.

That said, I think that necromancy is at its core is a measure of duration after death. When used by death, shadow, and fel, it is a decrease in the rate of entropy; its slowing true death enough to appear as if standing still. In lore, we know undead are not immortal, we still rot and at some point cease to be.
When life, light, and order use necromancy, they are reversing entropy at such slow rate; an incredibly slow resurrection so as to appear standing still.

It is true that necromancy is necromancy, no matter the source of magic, and it is different. Forsaken are undead and dieing, but Calia is undead and reviving.

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Necromancers are just Healers on a delay.

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I read this as “healers on holiday” and went with it for about 10 seconds before re-reading your post.

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“I did not lose my medical license for nothing!”

In theory, so long as the Necromancer has access to certain reagents, they can indeed turn the decay of their corporeal form down to almost nothing, but it is inevitable, hence the Lich’s use of a Phylactery, and why that Phylactery is almost always an object or creation of non-biological materials, meaning that the ‘prison’ holding their soul will not decay.

Within the phylactery, their soul can manipulate the material world around them, generating a new body out of corpses, or even conjuring one out of raw matter if the Lich in question is skilled enough.

There’s also the issue that Forsaken can ‘renew’ themselves through their Cannibalize racial, and also by ingesting the mushrooms of the Plaguelands, which possess a unique necrotic taint to them that can heal a Forsaken, but the broken method of their Undeath means that, unlike the Undead of Maldraxxus, they cannot heal or grow stronger. They can’t bulk up, or get more dextrous, they’re stuck at factory default settings, and require magical items to get any form of physical gain beyond that.

It would be interesting to see if Calia’s transformation was intended to try and ‘heal’ the Forsaken in some fashion, since unlike them, Calia has all of her soul, whereas most Forsaken were, on some level, affected by the soul-stealing powers of the Mournblade, Frostmourne, which was the primary conduit for the Lich King, and through him, Zovaal the Jailer, to spread Undeath and gain servants in the Material Plane.

This explain why so many Forsaken have scrambled memories, their better natures and positive emotions are muted, if not absent, and why no amount of restorative magic ever seems to be able to revive them as one of the living, as to be revived requires a whole, intact soul, or nearly so, and the Forsaken are missing enough of their soul that the magic to revive them simply fails to take the desired effect, instead simply resurrecting them as an Undead no matter how often the process is repeated.

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What about those which died at the hands of the Scourge, but far away from the sting of Frostmourne? Those turned by the Val’kyr after Northrend.

I think it doesn’t matter how much of one’s soul is left after the transition of death. I hope Calia isn’t an attempt at healing Forsaken in any fashion. I hope she is a propaganda piece. But, this is something else entirely.

My focus is basically on what the Margraive said. Or, as i like to call it, the lie. I argue that there is a difference in undeath, depending on how one was raised. The magic is just the vehicle, but the direction an individual flows in the undead state is different.

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Even in Deathknell when you’re first waking up, there are Forsaken around who dont know who they are, their “soul” being back didnt do anything for them. A lot of them are a hodge podge of different bodies, which “soul” did they get? Are they not something new entirely?

I do think Calia is just a way to make Forsaken more palatable for a larger audience going forward. Sadly.

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