Look, we don't need Necromancers. They're a luxury. You want to turn corpses into power? How convenient, we already have a Flesh Forge!
Meanwhile they're a PR disaster, they're generally weak against enemies of their CR (it's a common Necromancer weakness), and Necromancer magelings are basically "I create low-to-mid-CR minions and buff them a little" : ever heard of Legion officers?
Meanwhile Sorcerer magelings are quite a bit more useful. And sure a high-level Necromancer is useful, but so is any other high-level strong spellcasting class...
I operate under an assumption (ruled looong back by DP) that with our Empire growing, we
will be getting people with natural predesposition to Necromancy as magic.
And I see no reason to
not teach them, and them becoming asocial elements, instead of them becoming
dangerously asocial elements if not taught.
I'm not seeking making
squads of them, nor nabbing any high-level ones, don't get me wrong.
I just want them to be
on our list of options.
Why in the fuck shoud we
stop ourselves from grabbing at an entire branch of magical knowledge?
It may be not as combat-useful as others, but it's
still something useful for our magical institutions long-term, imo.
And, like I said, this research is
not only about Necromancers.
It's about finding a way to stop NE from fucking up the world.
-It's our key to un-fucking the worst parts of Dothraki sea now.
-And also to having Sentient Undead
not be a danger to society.
It is also the starting point to making more powerful constructs than what we can do now.
-remember that Fire-powered Undead Dragon Artemis1992 statted up? We
could do that after this and some bit of research on top.
