Scott Schultz wrote: >I'd suspect that if it was easy to speak with the dead that there would be >more necromancers in the world. As it stands, Loraan considered Aliera's >captured soul to be a treasure worth betraying the Empire for. From Vlad's >description of his laboratory, he had gone to some great lengths to setup a >communication apparatus. If you could just kill a Teckla and then cast a >spell to talk to his now-dead soul, then the soul of a random Dragaeran >wouldn't excite him like that. > > > > Vlad has talked with the dead - of course he was in their territory, and it appeared that time didn't work the same way as it does back home.