I suspect we have until 2488 at the latest, the year of the Battle of Death Pass, where Morglum Necksnapper convinced the Bretonnian King to end the Errantry War against greenskins by wiping out his army.
The Errantry War is already ended, so that's been butterflied.
If we go down the necromancy tree we can find better ways to destroy the undead or even permanently kill vampires. I think it is worth it especially since Liber Mortis have us a boost to fighting necromancy and Dhar magic.
Belegar: "So, what do you intend to do now that you've been instrumental in reconquering Karak Eight Peaks, Mathilde?"
King-Bro might give a 'nothing urgent, do what you think is best' orders for a year or two tho.
Thats not necessarily true there are other canon ways such as the way Ranald did it.
It depends. Like, Necron-style 'stuff your soul in a box and watch it erase itself' necromancy sucks for everybody who isn't Nagash, who is a fifteen foot skeleton man that understands neither pity nor remorse nor the laments of filthy casuals.
4. Reverse-engineer Skalm, or whatever the Skaven use to make their higher-ups like the Council, the Grey Seers, or Ikit Fucking Claw live for centuries.
That involves Dhar and the rat god (maybe) so let's not do that.
So does necromancy?
Yeah. Like, I think it would be cool if Mathilde became Dwarf Ancestor God of Rangers, but I would also be fine with her dying a heroic death or, better yet, dying after a long and fulfilling life, having left a good legacy, surrounded by family and friends.
Not the will we of life it just has us killing people every once and a while. That is still considered necromancy.
Well, there is that whole "drink dragon blood" deal that does something to vampiric souls - something that allows them to go without blood from that point onward, somehow. Whatever mechanics of that are, it gotta be pretty wild.
Yeah, but questing knights aren't inherently noble, you know? And I'm pretty sure they were deserters, or some other flavor of black guard before they got started; it's a bit of a self-fulfilling truth that only jerks become vampires, because only jerks are okay with becoming vampires.
I think getting stabbed is always bad, and I'd never be content with dying of old age. It's a personal preference thing, so we can't ever convince each other, but dying when we might not have died is something I think is bad, and therefore not good.
Our enemy isn't mortality, its the destruction of cultures caused by chaos, greenskins and undead. We have no reason to expect immortality to solve any of our problems when the elven factions make it clear that being long lived is meaningless.
Becoming a vampire means using dhar and dhar corrupts its users. Therefore all vampires are evil.
