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Thanks for the spoiler warning, then I'll be back once I cleared the Endwalker MSQ.
Great video !
I can stop whenever I want!
Fantasias just help your become your "true self" right? Allow what's on the outside to match what's on the inside in the event your spirit was born into the wrong body. Something we as players can abuse but otherwise are useless for most people.
So, would the practice of an Ishgardian drinking dragon's blood to transform technically be forbidden magic? They do it to themselves willingly, so I wonder.
* scoffs* Ser I don't have a problem. I simply enjoy being a male Elezen from time to time. No harm in that ( Has used a total 10 fantasia)
For those you know who have a problem, please call the linkpearl for Alchemists Anonymous for an intervention.
Thanks for the additional lore professor! I didn't do palace of the dead, so I didn't realize that there was proper necromancy. I had always assumed that sticking voidsent in corpses like Xande did to invade Meracydia was the only form of necromancy as undead seem to pretty much always be accompanied by voidsent in my memory. I am now wonder if that would count as void magic, or necromancy.
Can't imagine telling a woman like Y'Shtola what she can and can not do. If knowledge on how to do something exists, she will do it. She really is the most powerful dark sorceress that just happens to be on the heroic side. Nothing is off limits.
I'm writing a story with a magic system based off aetherology and this helped me a ton! I've already established a forbidden or taboo form of magic and this will help me explain it
I would think there might be room for some sort of ethical Necromancy : that kind of necromancy would be less about raising the dead but somewhat like Reapers and Summoners, forming a covenant with spirits of the recently dead to perform a task then be released. What would be the cost? Well, for the caster, perhaps some MP and whatever kind of resource they generate in combat. Like Reapers, they could gain that resource from defeated enemies or using certain abilities on them, or even use up some of their HP as 'payment'.
Then the spirit would assume the form agreed on by the covenant (spell) to perform the task then dissipate after a moment or last for a short duration afterwards.
On a game mechanic level, I envision the Necromancer as a spellcaster that has very short range spells that he can overcome by using spirits as focus points for long range spells. Basically, Necromancer AoEs would be centered on the caster but if they have a spirit "haunt" an enemy or ally (giving a debuff or buff respectively), then that target would become the centerpoint of your Necromancer spells. Kind of similar to the Sage with Kardia/Kardion except it would be used for offensive AoE spells.
I would assume most Necromancer spells would be DoTs or debuffs, kind of like an inverse Bard in that they might not dish out as much damage as other casters but they have high utility in making enemies weaker and dealt damage over time.
With the Summoner no longer having its AoE DoT capability, there is certainly room for a caster with DoT-centric mechanics and a unique way to use their spells. Probably would need to be looked at or balanced somehow but yeah, that's pretty much as close as an "ethical Necromancer" I can think of without right out raising the dead… or creating simple homunculi that the spirits can temporarily inhabit to perform the action.
I will still argue that necromancy could still be used with noble intentions. Raising the dead to defend their own families in times of dire need, when a standing army can not be feasible. Allowing a spirit a chance to fulfill itself as they're walked through their final moments again. Necromancy is only as good or as evil as the caster is who uses it.
Mr. Professor you have told us today some good knowlege but the what exactly is fantasia now. I mean its a pretty stron drug and not light to handle but what exactly is it and how does it work
So.. no talk about the blue juice? Okay, don’t mind me I’m leaving class…… 👀
My favorite subject… well done!
Man I would love a necromancer/blood magic healer