On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > Aliera, explaining sorcery & elder sorcery: "Sorcery is the art of snip > > Aliera, explaining necromancy: "The art of using necrophia, and snip > Presumably, legal revivification (and other legal necromancy) is > done only by using necrophia to control the energy levels of > different life-states. > > But it is presumably also possible to use direct amorphia-manipulation > to do so. > > I suspect that just as Daymar is personally able to use psionics to do > things directly without using the Orb, perhaps the Necromancer is able > to directly control the energy levels of different life-states, using > only her mind and will. This is an excellent summary of our Vlad-hobbled scholarship on the magic in question. I would have phrased the last time differently - the Necromancer may [must] have access to magical technology that Aliera doesn't know about.