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It Belongs to a Museum

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I won't lie, part of the reason I chose the Valkyrie is because I can't help but laugh at the idea of her eventually having to justify staying unalive to her sisters using basically Air Bud rules.

'Listen, there's no rule that says a chooser of the slain can't choose herself'

And meanwhile we're in the back of the jungle court basically like:

 
Impirius said:
[X] Vampire Skald
Reminder that we are building a Luthor Harkon is the coolest museum.
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Mr. Prokosch said:
If this museum is going to tell the story of the Vampire Coast, then who better than someone who lived it?
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This absolutely suits luthor's purposes and is by no means a bad thing, but a museum of "This is how fucking cool lustria is and, by implication, how cool luthor is for having dominated a good chunk of it" ALSO suits his purposes, and the Valkyrie is well suited for that.
 
[X] Barrow King
[X] Vampire Skald

Barrow King is so cool, and Vampire Skald is both cool and fits beautifully with the ship.
 
[x] Black Lion

The Vampire Skald and the Stranded Valkyrie are very tempting, but they're both noted as being recurring visitors, and what we have now are weapons and beast skeletons.
 
Something about the Barrow King writeup makes me imagine the sort of guy who, in a more contemporary setting, would be walking around with memetic Fishing hats and T-shirts.

And I just really want to imagine Bracht the Eternal and co as geared up in fishing memorabilia as the time period will allow. Or monologuing to visitors about the exhibit and then getting side tracked by The One That Got Away.
 
[X] Vampire Skald

Much like our historic location and our first exhibit, this guy is tailor-made for fulfilling the museum's Hype Luthor Harkon mission.

He also has Detailed knowledge of Lustria, so he can also say a thing or two about the Lustrian animal skeletons we're getting - he might not be able to animate them for us, but he knows what tales to tell about them to thrill visitors.
 
CornyBones said:
Okay. So what is the logistical difference between Our Spooky Uncle, and these gentlebones in the field of Necromancy? Am I thinking about necromancy and undeath too broadly? How does bone animation and undead spirtual maintenance differ between the fields of sorcerous arts?
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Paht is not undead, he's a Liche Priest. That means his soul is more solidly connected to his body, and his body is preserved and altered by rituals and alchemy to not be such a terrible place for a soul to spend an eternity connected to. Liche Priests often get lumped in with undead because they're usually hanging out with Tomb Kings, who are unambiguously undead, and because if they let themselves go they can get pretty nasty looking while still being fully functional.

Bracht is a Wight King. A Wight is an animated skeleton with more oomph, a Wight King is a particularly powerful Wight that retains most of their faculties. In life he would have been a leader of a tribe of horse nomads under the Scythian Empire, and in death he was interred with rituals to preserve his soul and to tie it to his body, and the same was done to his entourage. This was a common practice for Scythians and means the barrows that dot the Old World are just goody bags of free Wights for necromancers. He'd be about as old as Paht, but he spent most of that 'asleep' and only recently (probably post-Vampire Wars, so less than 500 years) did he start getting woken up to be used as canon fodder.

Paht's also not a Necromancer, he's a wielder of Death Magic. Death Magic uses the Amethyst Wind, one of the eight common and 'natural' Winds of magic, to use magic related to death and endings and inevitability. It's generally used to kill things. The rituals and alchemies that make Paht a Liche Priest are separate to Death Magic, and there are Liche Priests that specialize instead in Light Magic or the holy magic of the Nehekharan Pantheon.

Bracht has picked up the basics of Necromancy. It uses a combination of the Mortuary Cult's Death Magic and some secrets of Dark Magic that Nagash stole from the Dark Elves. It's about dragging the living and the dead into a state halfway between both. It's generally used to raise the dead. Bracht uses a combination of necromancy and the remains of the magics that originally preserved him and his entourage to keep him and his crew intact, together, and mobile.
 
Boney said:
Bracht is a Wight King. A Wight is an animated skeleton with more oomph, a Wight King is a particularly powerful Wight that retains most of their faculties. In life he would have been a leader of a tribe of horse nomads under the Scythian Empire, and in death he was interred with rituals to preserve his soul and to tie it to his body, and the same was done to his entourage. This was a common practice for Scythians and means the barrows that dot the Old World are just goody bags of free Wights for necromancers. He'd be about as old as Paht, but he spent most of that 'asleep' and only recently (probably post-Vampire Wars, so less than 500 years) did he start getting woken up to be used as canon fodder.
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Wait, Horse nomads...horse....

If we get him, then they can ride skeletal dinosaurs!! They should have all the skills for it!
 
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