I guess this is a Lore question? But if Necromancy raises the Forsaken/Death Knights, how does the spell continue after the guy who raised them is gone?
Or are they considered alive again? I’m not asking this correctly but if someone takes my meaning, I’d appreciate a sentence or two.
They were raised by the lich king. Plus it doesn’t work like that. He wasn’t maintaining them. He raised them. Job done. They don’t become less raised.
It just does. Magic.
WoW magic does whatever it needs to in order to fit the narrative
It has never made sense
That’s not how it works.
If it worked like that all the Forsaken would have dropped dead when Arthas died.
DK ghouls disappear when DKs die because of game mechanics, not lore. Hunter pets do the same thing.
I guess I’m wondering what the magic does then? It’s not like a law, that must stay in effect, it’s like a…birth in which the system in self-contained and independent?
I think there’s a difference between magic and a spell.
The Necromancer casts a spell that creates the Undead. But once the Undead is created, that Undead is a magic creature. Like a Demon, or an Elemental. The magic that sustains them comes from the universe itself.
Like, if you were remove the Death Magic from an Undead, they would cease to be. But that’s not a spell that needs to be maintained by a person.
Hunters do necromancy confirmed
Neither the Forsaken nor the Death Knights were created or bound to the Jailer, otherwise he would have just taken control of them during SL.
That’s just the point. In fiction, magic has always done what its author wants it to do.
This dates back to antiquity and possibly beyond.
What does it do in non-fiction?
I mean, they’ve openly done so for a while now lol
In non-fiction it’s all about magic tricks. Pick a card, any card, then slide it in the deck. Now which shell has the pea? Ask the lady that was in the cage that now has a lion and oh look, there’s the lady and she’s holding up your card.
It’s all about making people think they are looking at one thing while really they are looking at something else.
Less vampire bloodlines more zombie curse
And some authors have rules and limits to magic keeping it more grounded
I’m not sure what your point is?
a Wizard did it
necromancy doesnt just stop when the person who raised the corpse dies in warcraft, otherwise we never would have had “there must always be a lich king” because the scourge wouldve just dropped dead on the spot
It was not his actual lifeforce holding them up. It’s the same reason Kil’Jaeden dying did not kill most of the Legion.
I think if you looked closely with a “trekkie’s” eye you would find that any author who writes enough material that includes magic starts to lose his footing on that ground.
Take Tolkien for example. Why didn’t Gandalf just have the eagles fly Frodo to Mount Doom?
This seems pretty logical. I like this. Thank you.
Yeah. But why?