I'm going to start an Eberron campaign this week and one of my players is playing a necromancy wizard. Part of his backstory is that he got kicked out of an arcane academy for practicing necromancy. We were thinking that he could have been attending Arcanix, but I can't seem to find anything on their policy regarding necromancy. Can anyone tell me if necromancy is banned at Arcanix?
As published, there’s no ban on necromancy per se, but if your DM is okay with it, there’s nothing stopping you from changing that for your version of the setting.
I'm pretty sure that necromancy isn't banned in Arcanix, but necromancers just by default walk a very fine moral line. Maybe your character crossed a line, like using the body of a dead former student for experimentation that made the heads of the school panic? The problem is less so with necromancy, the magic of death, in and of itself, but more with necromancers being more naturally tempted into using unscrupulous means to become more powerful necromancers.
Crossing an ethical line like that doesn't also preclude your character from generally being a decent person. I'm a big fan of the Shadow Sorcerer quirk, "You have trouble remembering that living creatures and corpses should be treated differently," for stories like this.
Hi all,
I'm going to start an Eberron campaign this week and one of my players is playing a necromancy wizard. Part of his backstory is that he got kicked out of an arcane academy for practicing necromancy. We were thinking that he could have been attending Arcanix, but I can't seem to find anything on their policy regarding necromancy. Can anyone tell me if necromancy is banned at Arcanix?
As published, there’s no ban on necromancy per se, but if your DM is okay with it, there’s nothing stopping you from changing that for your version of the setting.
I'm pretty sure that necromancy isn't banned in Arcanix, but necromancers just by default walk a very fine moral line. Maybe your character crossed a line, like using the body of a dead former student for experimentation that made the heads of the school panic? The problem is less so with necromancy, the magic of death, in and of itself, but more with necromancers being more naturally tempted into using unscrupulous means to become more powerful necromancers.
Crossing an ethical line like that doesn't also preclude your character from generally being a decent person. I'm a big fan of the Shadow Sorcerer quirk, "You have trouble remembering that living creatures and corpses should be treated differently," for stories like this.
I'm not aware of anything about it in the books, both current and previous editions.
But it's your campaign. If you want to say it's banned, it's banned.
Frankly, after what Karnnath did to Aundair during the Last War it would serve them right.
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