WHY. WHY do i get penalties for being a prydaen necromancer? Like I'm not gonna be Lyras. Puh-lease. So unfair. :/

Not sure what you're talking about here.

The only thing I can recall about Necromancy that highlights Rakash and Prydean characters is that they should theoretically be less inclined to go that route, what with the massive homeland genocide and all.

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from what I have read on simutronics site? It stated clearly that prydaens and rakash hold penalties for being in necromancer guild.

Prydaen after-life faith is pretty much reincarnation . They're not as inclined to follow Necromancy because they don't believe in a reason to fear death as other races would.

There are exceptions. As it appears all too possible for a Prydaen to be severed from The Wheel. Resulting in being "lost to the void".

Triquetra Chronicles, Volume 1

""Since that time, those few Prydaen that have been exiled are viewed as a kindred spirit to Cemsiat. Their tails are normally removed, and a magical brand is placed upon them to mark them as such. Once such a process has occured, they are no longer considered kin of the people, and are beyond the usual comforts of the Pride. Some have been able to find redemption within their lifetime, allowing the brand to be removed. Most however, do not. Those who have not, or refuse to find such redemption, become lost to the void, never to rest in Tenemlor's embrace or be reborn within the great Wheel."

Huh, weird. I know I saw it somewhere, tried to find it on my history, and its like I never saw it...if I run across it again, I'll post it up. But if we don't then..I guess that's great news. Heh.

>> Prydaen after-life faith is pretty much reincarnation . They're not as inclined to follow Necromancy because they don't believe in a reason to fear death as other races would.

Heh. While that may be true, I think the more immediate reason is that being a Prydaen Necromancer is akin to a European Jew being a Nazi. The whole decades-long genocide would really put a damper on any Prydaen's desire to exercise the practice.

>I think the more immediate reason is that being a Prydaen Necromancer is akin to a European Jew being a Nazi.

Not a good analogy in my opinion. But I'll explain. Philosophers are actually anti-Lyras. Necromancy is a rebellion against Gods and has nothing to do with joining Lyras. So that analogy is like saying you're a Nazi but anti-Hitler.

The analogy doesn't really hold up, because the reason Lyras attacked Rakash and Prydaen first wasn't for ethnic or racial reasons, but because they were there. The first "people" she rendered undead were some of her fellow humans <there weren't many of them in the western lands, but there were a few>. By the time the Hunger got ahold of her,and continueing on to When she broke the barricade, she slaughtered everyone regardless of race. The only areas that were spared was Muspar'i - and the Islands, one due to an ocean of sand, the other oceans of water.

An arisen dummy zombie bellows, "You will all be ssslaughtered!"
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>>Not a good analogy in my opinion. But I'll explain. Philosophers are actually anti-Lyras. Necromancy is a rebellion against Gods and has nothing to do with joining Lyras. So that analogy is like saying you're a Nazi but anti-Hitler.

"Normal" people of every race don't differentiate friend, Prydaens would be a degree even further than that. Well, at least not normal ones.

>>The analogy doesn't really hold up, because the reason Lyras attacked Rakash and Prydaen first wasn't for ethnic or racial reasons, but because they were there.

Yes, the racial overtones are different. I was not suggesting their motives were the same, and given the historical significance of Nazism, it was probably a foolish analogy, as I can't expect people to follow that comparison only on face value. In any case, I was only comparing the two in the sense that one party perpetrated a massive genocide on another party.

You probably don't care about minute philosophical distinctions between sects of a group if you hate them with an all-consuming passion, even if to the group members themselves, those distictions are real and important. Necromancers have been the single greatest cause of suffering in DR lore, we really can't stress that enough.