Interesting development from the forsaken questline.
So the act of raising the dead is considered necromancy even if one isn’t using death magic necessarily.
Remember kiddos, it ain’t a holy light Battle rez you’re giving to your friend, you just committed necromancy upon them.
Also, undead paladins now, pls.
And more slots so I can make one w/o having to delete one of my existing guys.
Necromancy has always been death magic.
Blizz was attempting to give it an explanation without actually using a single brain cell.
And battle rez is a game mechanic, not a lore thing.
Edit to add, the “necro” part of “necromancy” is pretty much just another word for death.
"Pyro"mancers use fire.
"Cryo"mancers use ice.
See where this is going?
Oh my dog, yes! 50 slots is so 17 years ago.
Any sort of resurrection is unnatural.
Sadly, I delete my characters just so I dont have so many cluttering up my startup screen.
I even lost (as in cant find and tried to get help finding it) one of my vanilla rogues…
I wish it wasnt so expensive to move characters around 
On the contrary, it means one might potentially be able to use death magic to perform necromancy-free true resurrection (see also Ardenweald and wild gods?)
Well I think the end result of being alive versus being undead is important in this discussion.
Margrave Sin’dane’s phrasing is important, I think. She spoke of “animating unliving flesh.” When you resurrect someone, you are returning life to them, not just animating them.
Calia, and the Forsaken, are unliving flesh. Undead. They walk and talk, are animate, because of the magic that suffuses them… although the source of Calia’s magical animation is different from the Forsaken’s.
But if you, a void elf, get a resurrection, you’re just restored to biological health. You are alive and animate all on your own.
It is, however, an interesting side note that D&D originally classed resurrection of all types as necromantic magic.
I want to be an undead that was raised by…life…magic…?
Also, the cosmology chart in Chronicles has necromantic magic being solely in the Death side of things. None of this stuff makes sense anymore.
The Chronicles are canonically points of view, not necessarily objective fact. The Titans are not omniscient.
Ner’zhul doing necromancy with void magic
Orc zombies animated by life magic
So void and death magic can be used together. Its still “voidmancy” and “necromancy”.
Then it isnt necromancy. Its “lifemancy” or whatever you wanna call it.
A pyromancer that uses fire magic to raise the dead is still using pyromancy. Raising something doesnt make you a necromancer if you use another type of magic. Using death magic makes you a necromancer. End result looks the same, doesnt mean it is the same.
Blizzard (via character dialogue) says otherwise, and what they say goes for their world.
There’s this weird gap in Eredar lore where it comes off that they were using Arcane to manipulate souls into the mecha suits and not Shadow magic.
That makes a fifth power using necromancy.
At this point I think Fel are the only ones not animating bodies around for fun and profit.
Unless you count the fact that they just naturally come back to life in the Nether anyways.
Yeah Meryl Felstorm resurrected himself with Arcane as well. Well, reanimated himself.
Oh right, I read up on him recently.
Could make an argument for Fel necromancy with whatever these guys are too
edit: yup
That makes every type of magic canonically doing necromancy.
Wonder if you could count the Core Hounds from Molten Core as well. What magic class is that?