>>5895855this is definitely shiny rock
>>5895522>>5895661>>5895669>>5895701>>5895855>>5895862>Make the case that ghost magic isn’t so bad. Surely, they can look past this?>At the very least, the school should have to explain in better detail what differences there are between Ghost Magic and Necromancy, what the practical uses Necromancy has that has it be a recognized school of magic rather than something that would lead to pyre burning or outright stoning, and whether this is just wizards once again scapegoating the shamantic traditions as "Dangerous" and "Subversive" just because they prefer their clan organizations rather than accept Magiocratic rule as standard.“Now.. now wait, hold on!” You raise your hands as several other iudices raise their gavels. “I ask the counsel.. what even is the difference between 'ghost magic' and 'necromancy magic?’ The two are dead-adjacent, are they not..? The distinction can’t be so vast that one should have its own school in the conservatory and the other earn the practitioner death by fire and stone!”
“Wh–I–..” Balthazar sputters, his pallid face about as red as it can get (not very). “Why I never! The gulf between necromancy magic and ghost magic–.. you may as well measure the east and west ends of the primordial sea with a reach like that!”
“Yes, Snuff, they’re different schools of magic.” Sigrid looks a little annoyed as well.. for some reason. “The school of necromancy is a subdivision of arcane magic–practitioners call upon internal powers to summon and command spirits to do their bidding. The practitioners manipulate and shape the essence of the dead, raising zombies, communicating with spirits–like an outsider sculpting clay. The school of ghost magic is unique from arcane magic, as we call upon spirits as a power source, in much the same way divine magic calls upon the gods. The connection is more.. symbiotic, and we can form alliances with specific ghosts–like being the clay yourself, in a way. The magic is founded on occult rituals, offering, prayer.. and we can get all sorts of benefits! Like psionic telekinesis, elemental powers, possession.. anything necromancy can do and more.”
