----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Simmons" <scs at di.org> To: "Scott Schultz" <scott at cjhunter.com> Cc: "'Dragaera List'" <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 8:56 AM Subject: Vampire/Necromancer/Loraan speculation > Was Subject: Re: Not a witch? > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:20:00AM -0800, Scott Schultz wrote: > snip > The Necromancer is noted as being "undead", a word which most Dragaerans > seems to use interchangably with "vampire." But it is not unreasonable > to suppose that her own skills could return her, or even make her > 'undead' without the normal process of dying. Perhaps this process is > required to work in her area of expertise, and Sethra has been studying > with her. This might well explain Sethras condition without requiring > her to have actually been killed, and the things she said to Vlad about > dying and returning were simplifications (you know, lies) to avoid trying > to explain the nearly inexplicable. Nah, unlikely. > > The common man (ie, Vlad, etc) knows that the undead are vampires who > are returned by the Gods for their own purposes. Thus everyone who is > undead (a vampire) must have been returned by the Gods. snip > -- > "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." > -- Albert Einstein I suspect that the Necromancer is only undead on Dragearea. She is summoned by the LoJ to help out, and whips up a suitable "body" to host her awareness while she is there. It makes sense if you include the "life and death are engineering " quote. Jeff -can't make a host body, but has hosted parties of varying degrees of awareness