val Holryn wrote:
Yeah, we don't know much about the Myrantians ... but their magical traditions are almost certainly weird.
I am sure that if Tzhihet has a deity specific spells they are bizarre and blasphemous ... but I don't think they're likely to raise the dead. In my mind I see extra limbs and/or tentacles. The Myrantians probably have true priests (Tzhihet gets listed on the table of Gods in A:RPG) but I am guessing the Myrantian Necromancers weren't Therugists. I also don't think they changed into wolves or birds either through animism so I don't think they were any normal kind of Primal Casters either. Leaves a lot of questions about what they actually were...
To a certain extent I think it may depend on the nature of the necromantic control. If they could continue life past death or interact with spirits in some way, then I expect they're religious or new source based. If the scope of their powers is limited to the corporeal then I think you can make a case that there's another tradition within the bounds of the Eldritch/Elder magic. To my mind Shamanism doesn't fit unless the animation of flesh was specifically tied to deals with minor powers / spirits. Even in that case it would make more sense to expect that if another power needs to be involved they'd simply go to their gods who are fully accepting of those kinds of dark traditions. It's an interesting question.
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