Necromancy: The Dark Art of Summoning The Dead - (Exploring Magic Ep.1)
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- Today we take a look at the history of Necromancy, the dark art of summoning the dead but was it really always that way?
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Necromancy, it's a great way to raise a family.
Dont you mean raze?
Took me awhile to catch on and all I got to say is LOL screw you
Haha I’m DEAD 👀😂
😂🤣😆😅
@@kody6518 not for long😈
Arthas aka the lich king should be an honorable mention here!
RIP Blizzard.
Don't forget Kel'Thuzad, the best Lich!
Blizzard is not dead it's just going through a teen faze! It's just a faze! :'(
Arthas was a jerk
Nagash the great necromancer, supreme lord of undead and now God of death and master of Shyish. ( warhammer fantasy/ warhammer age of Sigmar)
I have found old diesel engines to be highly responsive to necromancy resurrection...
Given they still retain good compression.
My favorite necromancer ... VECNA!!!
From the Greyhawk setting.
He was the top lich before being a lich was cool. He made vampires BEFORE necromancy was a school in DND.
He also achieved Godhood and half godhood by using his own wit, knowledge and magic.
The Black Cauldron is another example.
That obscure Disney movie?
My favourite Necromancer is Chloe Saunders from ‘the darkest powers’ trilogy
In Bible, witch performed Necromancy for King Saul and brought a spirit of prophet Samuel.
Nozomu Suzuki And Samuel got really mad because he wanted to remain at rest. That’s why you don’t bring people back to life.
just tell him to get over it and others to don't be such a douche.. 3: )
A huge part of ancient Finnish magic uses dead ancestors. You go to them for help or strenght in more powerful spells. The ancestors spirits were highly worshipped and respected. Then there was the bad spirits of the dead, forgotten in the afterlife, becoming scary ghosts that you could summon to curse others.
I always ALWAYS play Necromancer in skyrim. I absolutly LOVE IT. Been thinking about looking into it more and more. For gameplay purposes.
Warhammer Vampire Counts/Tomb Kings/Death Wizards anyone?
I know Death Wizards cant raise the dead but hey, they still use death magic
Nagash needs more love in fiction
This is very interesting, I knew necromancy was not always seen as bad but I guess I never really realized the scope of necromancy. Love the videos, keep up the fantastic work
Charles Dexter Ward, the reanimater by hp lovecraft is a good story. Or Steven kings pet cemetery is sorta necromancy
Your Soul Is Mine!!!....Fatality Flawless Victory!
Necromancy is so Awesome, It needs to be practiced more
Love your vids. I'm actually writing a novel in which the antagonist is a necromancer. But I'm taking an interesting stance on nercomancy. In that when the soul of the person is brought, they became twisted and corrupted by the act.
In the Naruto manga and anime, there is a technique called Edo Tensei or Reanimation Jutsu that sacrifices the living to call forth the dead. It's a forbidden ninja technique as it violates the laws of nature and is seen as inhumane . However it's used to summon back both good and evil ninja for evil purposes such as war ninja.
Most necromancers in recent history and literature were indeed evil, but Marney from True blood was just plain crazy. (Unlike her literary counterpart who is actually a murderous werewolf witch.)
Nice Skyrim music in the background, I'd never say no to a bit of ambience.
Necromancers are always great for family reunions.
They're even better for funerals.
@@grindingtheaxe3027 that's where most family reunions happen. Besides, you can't spell funeral without fun 😁
Please do more on magic!!!
How could you forget the true modern necrmancer, the Lich King!
Necromancy is my favorite black magic
How about Yennifer in The Witcher? In The Witcher 3, she raises the body of a dead man to tell her and Geralt about what happened to Ciri. That seems like necromancy with good intent.
Ah yes. sweet sweet familiar music 🎶
This seems interesting I’m interesting to legend about creature like Norse , Greek all kinds of stuff like that including witchcraft
In the D&D world it can be used for good or evil. Often the "good guys" will talk to the dead to gain information. Now raising the dead [as skeletons, zombies, etc.] is looked on as evil.
Hey there’s grate folklore in the isle of sky and Inverness just in case you weren’t sure
In the Bible Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead and commands him to come forth. His dead body comes to life and the people were scared because he was transparent and looks like what we would call a ghost. Interesting little parallel I remembered while watching this video just now. Stuff to ponder. What it means I have no freaking clue. But just an interesting similarity on the topic that I just thought of while watching
The witch of Endora perfoms a nekyia in the old testament.
Recommend the necroscope books from Brian Lumley. Dragosani was a nasty one
Too tangible to be delusional.
Too empty to be a hallucination.
Esoteric knowledge is real.
Energy.
The background score is from Elder scrolls V
They did it in Buffy the vampire slayer!
An Undertaker and a Necromancer go to couples counselling
The councilor asks what seems to be the issue
The undertaker responds I feel he only wants me for my bodies
World of Warcraft's the Lich King, and several other lesser Necromancers.
Frankenstein was not a necromancer. His monster was a construct, not undead. He was a flesh golem.
necromancy sounds so similar to classic science
A necromancer is just a really late healer
It should be called necronom though, necromancer makes no sense.... Mancers are not a thing
It should be called necronom though, necromancer makes no sense.... Mancers are not a thing
segment pyromancer cryomancer geomancer...
Pretty much
Just
Speaking of necromancy while having a skyrim song in the background is very fitting. Loved it.
The king of worms.
Easy as flicking one's wrist in that game.
So happy others noticed
I agree💯
Secunda🌙
Necromancer: "I can raise the dead!"
Lich: "That's cute."
Necromancer: I also still have a working junk and can get with ladies while you're basically a mummified nerd.
Lich: Nani!?!?!
@Фаик Тагиев well, liches are "born" from necromancy but they don't need to be a necromancer in life to become a lich
@@necasperaterent29386 The idea of a necromancer getting any action is laughable... or gross, depending on how you think said 'action' occurs...
@@rayanderson5797 Why can't there be sexy necromancers? :D The job doesn't dictate a person's look in most cases. Frankenstein got some in the novel, even though yes, he was not a magic user but a scientist. To-MAY-to, to-MAH-to. ^^"
@@necasperaterent29386 I'm making a sexy necromancer but I'm having alot of fun working out her kinks
Or lack thereof
In the Diablo series, the Necromancer is portrayed as an agent of balance. His methods and powers are dark, but he doesn't allow himself to be corrupted by it. He uses necromancy as a means to maintain balance between order and chaos.
Exactly! The Necromancers from the Diablo universe are my favorite because of that reason.
Iirc the Necromancers in Diablo were taught by a god(?) Something like a bone dragon that's been around since or before the Sin Wars
I believe you're thinking of the Nephilim, "Rathma".
Yes, this is why they are not “Necromancers” but rather the Priests of Rathma, only called Necromancer to outsiders
The bone dragon is Trang'Oul.
Necromancy will always be my favorite school of magic
Go read Solo Leveling then. You'll love Sung Jin-Woo.
@@heyarnold7256 Fuck the hell yes! All of the yes but also kinda spoilers.
Ps. Can I point out just how amazing the foreshadowing for Sung's class was.
Sung:" Hypothetically say I could continue to grow stronger over time." "How strong do you think I can become?"
Assassin dude: "As strong as your SHADOW runs deep."
Me too !
same
masterofthedragoons Beautiful.
Forget about necromancy. Your voice is enough to awake the dead. So gooooood your voice is. Dear Lord.
M&F is definitely among the pantheon of youtubers that have supernaturally soothing voices
Gay
Nvm you're a woman, I'm an idiot
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Black Panther was also a necromancer, known also as The king of the dead. capable of communicating with all the past Black Panthers.
This was the comment I was looking for
Would that mean the Avatars are necromancers?
@@deadlyninja112yes. Jesus Christ is also a necromancer lich king
It's probably about how culture perceives life after death. In Greek mythology, if someone was dedicated enough, they could walk out of Hades. Christianity on the other hand see it as a reward or punishment for how person lived. Then necromancy is going to be evil, as the dead can escape Hell, or a soul can be brought back down to earth from heaven even if for short pierod of time it's going to be an act against will of the God.
In greek mythology also have something like haven and hell.. Elisia pedia is like paradise and tartar a is hell..
Christianity is based on faith in Christ, not a persons actions, that result in being granted entrance into heaven (gods presence) or thown into hell (cast out of gods presence). Just a correction. Can you really just walk out of hades according to greek mythology? That's interesting!
@@TragedysHalo It's near impossible to walk out of the Underworld, but people can walk into the Underworld. The most famous story of this is the musician Orpheus who went to the Underworld to save his wife Eurydice, who died young. Orpheus went before Hades and Persephone and played his music for them, and it was so beautiful that Hades was brought to tears. So, Hades allowed Orpheus to leave the Underworld with his wife, on the condition that he must walk in front of her and never look back at her until both of them were back to the world of the living. Well, fear and anxiety got the better of him, and the closer they got to the surface, more the fear grew that his wife may not really be behind him at all during their trip. When Orpheus reached the surface world, he was so overjoyed that he immediately looked back to his wife, forgetting that they both had to reach the surface before he could look back at her; she was still far enough back to still be in the Underworld. The deal broken, she was pulled back to the Underworld and Orpheus was left alone.
Aaron Sikes You can also walk out the underworld if you give Hades some good weed. Bruh I was just in the Underworld last night. Me and my boy Hades was on that Reggie Kush. I even hooked up Persephone with some good hash. Bruh if I didn't leave the underworld how am I talking to you now?
If we were going to include Christianity and Lord into the argument, an ill example of necromancy would be King Saul raising the spirit of the judge Samuel in a desperate attempt to find the word of God. Because of that, Saul had brought misfortune and doomed his family line in the Kingdom of Isreal.
Personally, Necromancy I feel is one of those magics that has the POTENTIAL to be used for good. Like just communicating with the deceased seems fine enough. It CAN be used for good, but most times its used for evil purposes.
If only it was real.
Not trying to be rude but the deceased are called that for a reason. No one comes back from the dead. Those people summons DEMONS. They have absolutely no access to human souls but they lie to their bones to put a nice façade to such horrendous practice.
All kinds of magic can be used both good and evil.
Necromancy can be taken out of context or misunderstood if you see it first hand.
To be fair, if you forced my soul to reoccupy a very decayed, nasty ass corpse body instead of giving me an actual fresh host to control, I would consider you to be very evil too. It's about manners and respect.
@@christbenitez8797 I respectfully disagree my friend. Whether it's used for good or bad is irrelevant, or should I say, the problem. Even if used for good, you're controlling people and situations to suit your desires, which is incredibly controlling and narcissistic. It's like the ruler of North Korea, Kim Jung, he is quite literally a psychopathic control freak and he thinks he's fooling everyone, and everyone is going along with his pathetic charade, smiling and nodding maniacally. He replaced his name with the name Jesus in all the bibles and tells them he's the reincarnation of their savior, yet they drop dead like flies because they are starving. Any money to save them is being used to manufacture the charade. The wizard of oz. Only those without control of their own lives seek to control others. Only by relinquishing control to God can we then be in control. White magic is this, in a nutshell, as is black. It's playing God, pretending to know better than He. It always backfires because a relationship with God is a symbiotic one, we are nothing without Him and everything with Him. That's because He is within us, otherwise we will never be whole and always be incomplete. You cannot be truly happy and at peace without Him. Moreover it's literally impossible to be depressed and suicidal when we relinquish ourselves to Jesus, mind, body and soul- it all ties in.
And even situations deemed tragic are necessary, we should not go against the natural order. Pain and adversity are gifts. When we reflect and process it all properly, using our experience to help others and having learned our lessons, we become better human beings and evolve the soul exponentially. Therefore it is not only arrogant to think we know better than God but we may be depriving ourselves of the life experience and deprive other people of our wisdom and sage advice borne of life experience. They would benefit from our compassion, empathy and an overall innate understanding we wouldn't have otherwise given. Life changing experience we and they, are richer for.
We pay for the sins of out mothers and fathers, that's why we're continuously living out cycles of tragic situations, grief, dysfunction, addiction and illnesses, like some sort of groundhog day movie, we're compelled to do it until we get it right or for at least two generations or more, whichever comes first, because it's all borne of sin, which stems from the demonic and sure Jesus paid our debt and yes, sin may be forgiven, but that doesn't mean anyone is off the hook, it doesn't just go away. In fact we're judged not on the sin but how that sin has negatively affected others, only it's tenfold, to account for the ripple effect, and it always comes back to bite you in the ass. The universe is a mirror, hurting others is actually a form of self loathing because you're only hurting yourself and your children and grandchildren. So sin should be paid for and purified, there's no getting around it, maybe it's delayed but that's only making things worse, it's cheating. I always pray that God's will be done, you can't go wrong.
And lastly, both white and black magic involves communication with gods, demons and the like. Familiars are generational demons with a pretty name, but they are demons - disembodied souls of the nephilim or some variation disembodied energetic beings that are in rebellion with God. Demons lie, pose as angels, spirit guides and loved ones passed on, and demons always double cross, period. It's their nature. Their nature is one of deception, with an insatiable blood lust so they mean us harm! There's just so much we don't know about traversing the unseen realm. White magic is a sigil, it's a state of bondage that inevitably leads us down darker and darker paths and all those roads lead to hell. That's why the Bible warns us that if we take this route, come judgement day Jesus will utter those dreaded words- depart from Me- I no longer know ye- I hope I didn't come off as condescending, but I learned the hard way-
Necromancy is my favorite type of magic. The idea of being able to summon the dead and create your own army and getting stronger as the battle goes on because you absorb the dead of others is amazing. I wish more games would use necromancy and allow you to play as a necromancer
Diablo series
vivek kumar Diablo does have it, but I’m more looking into the whole mmorpg type thing and diablo isn’t as much
@@aleqn177 , Necromancers will come to ESO in the next big update and they will be amazing. ESO is great when it comes to diversity and creating your own fantasy.
there is necromancers in Guild wars 2 and World of warcraft, in wow they are just called death knights instead
DnD
...
Every F***kn time.
I remember that one guy doing a 1-on-1 tabletop session as a necromancer. He was doing great as a necromancer until the heroes came. It turns that he'd been playing as the villain to another campaign of the GM, and he did great as he used necromancy as a way to alleviate the need for workforce and to work the farms, giving freedom to the people who had lived on subsistence farming. The heroes were just blindly following the words of the people who preferred the status quo and just doomed the people he freed back to the hands of the ones who would kept them powerless. The GM praised him for how beautifully he used his necromancy to create a compelling villain and how it actually left a strong impression on the other side of the campaign.
I am surprised you did not mention the only instance of necromancy in the Bible, when Saul, in desperation, asked the witch of Endor to raise the prophet Samuel.
Ive been thinking abt the same thing.
god damn necromancer Ewoks ( i couldnt resist the obvious joke)
hay-zoos resurrecting lazarus is necromancy
@@wilsoncrocker Correct.... I wonder how Jason missed that?
Jesus and Lazarus
There is a series of books by Laurell K. Hamilton that center around the character of Anita Blake. In the series, Anita is a necromancer and she gets paid to raise the dead. She mostly does it for legal matters (like people who might not have had wills) or for the police. It's an interesting series for the most part.
Till she sleeps with everything, constantly.
@@NoxCornixus 🤭
Yea until she makes everything Poly, Poly, Poly, Mimimi - wait for it-POLY.
But its common place in that world for there to be people able to reanimate the dead. But interestingly enough not all can be called necromancers they called them reanimators.
One of my favourite necromancers in fiction is nico di angelo from the percy jackson franchise. At one point in the 4th book he summoned the dead the same way as Odysseus, though instead of sheep blood he used a happy meal and a six pack of coke.
But nobody told us nico was the gay son of hades!?! Necromancy was next to breathing to him tbh..
not gonna lie, I would probably raise from the dead if someone offered me a happy meal for free
I love Nico's character. He's my favourite
Nico is such a good character. I wish his sister survived, though
Lol I remember reading that in the books thinking that wasn’t going to work and then it did and I was like seriously our hero of Troy will accept a happy meal 😂
You're not a true Necromancer if you're not laughing at the enemies who are getting destroyed by your army of minions while having tea at the back.
In my opinion, the difference between the "good" necromancy and the "bad" is simple, in the first case you are politely asking for the dead to answer, in the second case you wrench them from their resting place and force them to do your bidding. In a more fantasy-ish way, communing with the dead is good, using them as tools is wrong. This of course supposes that in the case of raising the dead, they have a soul, otherwise moving an empty dead body is not really "evil" in my opinion.
On the church thing, abrahamic religions see the cycle of life and death as especially sacred, and in medieval theology "good" souls have no interest in leaving Heaven, so, the only souls that would answer are those of Hell, or devils themselves. Thus necromancy, in a judeo-christian perspective, is basically calling forth an evil presence.
I played a good nercomancer like that. He used only souls willing to return. Considering there's a lot of heroes and adventurers wanting a second chance.
At least , a good and logic opinion .
Thats pretty much what the video said lol
@@luismorales4617 I agree. I almost wrote the same thing myself.
@@sayingthethingstheywont2619 No it didn't. It just described the different type in franchises.
I've said this before, that I've romanticized Skyrim and its music, the combination of the somber, ambient sound and your smooth, soothing voice has aroused me.
Viper CRB odd flex but alright
Please, keep it in your pants.
Chad Necromancer vs Virgin Paladin
Inquisitor Thomas Chad?
@@rhyshumpledink5451 It's a meme
😂
In the epic fantasy series I'm writing, one of my MC's daughters is a Necromancer and she falls in love with and marries a lady Paladin.
@@JoshuaRWorkman sound like shit lgbt fantasy...so fuck off
Insert Favourite Necromancers here or I guess your most hated depending on how you feel :D
Mannimarco from the Elder Scrolls
The Lich King from World of Warcraft
@@tabbytab95 he is a death knight not a necromancer.
Vecna should definitely be here.
Kotaro Tatsumi (Zombieland Saga)
You forgot the most famous necromancer of all time, Jesus. The Bible has several examples of bringing the dead back to life, not just Lazarus. Additionally Jesus causing all the dead in Jerusalem to rise would have been a zombie apocalypse. Great video though.
The difference between a necromancer and jesus is that a necromancer used sorcery to raise the dead while jesus used authority. He told someone to wake up and they did because he has authority over everything because hes the messiah. There was no magic involved
Also, Jesus died and came back to life. That's a great example man, I've never thought about Jesus in this way before.
@@iamnotinvolved1309 that just makes jesus a lich lol.
I like this version of Jesus lol
resurrecting the dead interferes with free will. If we don't have free will, why are we responsible for our actions?
Necromancers are always one of my go to classes I pick when playing fantasy RPGs. I truly enjoyed how you fleshed out the mythology behind it and how you explained from many aspects that it's not just another dark art. Would love to see a video on the mythology of liches!
I pretty much have a idea what the answerd is, but could you make a video on alchemy and its similarities/differences with magic? Thanks for the great video.
Is there really a point to this? "Alchemy" is an ancient way of saying "chemistry". Its got nothing to do with magic (not by my standards anyway). Ressurection on the other hand is a type of magic literally identical to raising the dead by a necromancer and yet nobody bats an eye when Jesus resurrected a couple of folks (himself among them).
I thinks its all comes does to the similarities incorporated throughout over the decade by different author.
It’s not shown often but DC’s Constantine dabbles in necromancy to collect information. And technically he’s a hero
he's neither a hero or anti hero as he's still a selfish baster yet with somewhat a good moral code that solves situation in a ingenious and tricky way due to nature of how high the cost of particular magic entails. Lets not forget the mess that's left behind with every encounter filled with pain which in turn makes him a memorable & incomparable bad-ass.
The Elder Scrolls:
Manninarco the "king of worms"
Potema the "wolf queen"
A lot of the dragon priest
Alduin himself technically(he uses a shout to raise dead dragons)
The ideal masters
Serana's mom
The list goes on
There's a lot of necromancer in elder scrolls lore
I mean Mannimarco literally became a god, the god of worms, the necromancers moon, he who blinds arkay
6th view.
I have been waiting for this. Necromancy is my favourite type of magic.
Necromancy best magic.
It is really cool
Evil magic.
Ditto
Necromancy is cool and all but...what about Lesbomancy?
Btw in case people flip over this, i was watching witcher 2 vids and now its stuck in my head😂
Can you do African magic like vodou?
Voodoo*
GRIFFITHS Vlogs that is the Anglicized form of it. True, they are both written in English, but there is a difference between Romanized and Anglicized.
It is said Saint Nikolaus could performed miracles. Some say he even brought the dead back to life.
Ain’t no sleep in Santa’s Workshop.
you work till you die and then you work some more. hmm explains why he has a nonestop work scheduale. all the elves are undead. also one source of santa was Odin, who was god of the dead and summoned up the spirit of a Völva to ask for wisdom
Markus Nävergård not to mention, Odin was a master of magic and sought to know all knowledge in the nine realms. This may help to explain how Santa is capable of knowing where everybody wants, lives, Been bad or good, and when they’re sleeping or awake and can deliver all of their presents in one day and night.
It was a legend that he brought back to life children who were slaughtered by a cannibal butcher.
jesus, too, would qualify as a necromancer. he did raise lazarus, after all. then too, would not jesus' father -- who is also jesus him self, according to the stories -- be a necromancer? for, come the end of times, jesus' father would raise the dead before bringing them to "judgment". so.. that would make the abrahamic god its very self a necromancer. so..
Bruh how you gonna gloss over the fact that Black Panther HIMSELF is literally the KING OF THE DEAD in marvel... He led a zombie army to fight Thanos and God King Doom, and he talks with his ancestors ALL THE TIME.
The Jotten Goddess Hel would have been interesting for you to talk about. Also Odin used Necromancy as well.
Freya also has some associations with the dead. Leader of the valkyries, cannot recall other associations at the moment.
I love your video’s man! And your voice is very soothing, it chills me out just to listen to your video’s.
I do however feel like I need to point out that the difference between light and dark magic isn’t exactly the same as the difference between good and evil in most universes. Dark magic is usually magic meant to hurt or control others while light magic is used to heal and protect or otherwise do selfless things. So a good person can still use dark magic to do good things.
"I must protect you from yourself."
"You slaughtered my village and are trying to slaughter this one. How does boiling blood feel?"
@@bluesbest1 Why do you use quotation marks? Who are you quoting?
@@fredflintstone2958 My imagination. I visualized a "hero" using "good" in a bad way and a "villain" using "evil" in a good way and this was a concise way of projecting the result. The "hero" is removing their victim's choice and ability to learn from their mistakes, at best putting them in a gilded cage, while the "villain" is keeping a village safe from a murderer with a reasonable portion of revenge on the side.
@@fredflintstone2958 I wasn't thinking about necromancy. My reply pertained to OP's comment about Light and Dark, essentially giving an example of using Light for bad things and Dark for good things.
And yeah, the fact that that kind of example comes so readily to mind seems to prove the point OP and I were trying to make.
@@bluesbest1 Yes, it does....just clarifying. Peace and blessings to you
I personally like the Necromancers from Diablo the most. They fight to preserve the balance between Light and Darkness and they're among the only mortals to have never fallen to corruption.
I'll leave a quote here :
"Although their art is considered "dark," and the people of the outside world shun the priests who practice these arts, these mysterious cultists never suffered the epidemic of corruption that plagued the ancient mages.
They will accept any spellwork provided it does not cause its user to become corrupted. Pragmatists in the truest sense, they are above temptation. They see death merely as a natural part of life and do not seek to deny its arrival.
These ideals, coupled with an understanding of the natural balance between Order and Chaos, explain why they have not fallen prey to the influences of evil.
However, their serious demeanor and the powers of life and death they manipulate often lead others to suspect them of having more sinister motives."
Or, a similar example :
"The Priests of Rathma live and die by a simple philosophy: that the eternal struggle between light and darkness is never-ending, and that Sanctuary is threatened by both sides of that war. Only by preserving the Balance and keeping those opposing forces at bay, one can hope to make the world a better place."
PrinceVega well done sir
Where are your quotes from? They're useless without a reference.
However in the book the moon of the spider you see that balance is from ones perspective as a necromancer helps bring a powerful demon into sanctuary in the name of balance as the the three prime evils had been banished in Diablo 2 so he felt it tipped the scales of balance to far in the direction of good.
I don't view Necromancy as good or evil. It's neutral as all magic is. It's the person who uses the magic that is good or evil, not the magic itself.
Indeed intent controls results.
Garth Nix's Old Kingdom books does a good job showing the positive side of necromancy. The power to put restless spirits to rest and to keep the dead from rising again. The more they use their powers the greater the toil and strain placed on the user.
My favorite of magic.
*Laughs manically*
I thought you were an alchemist.
Mind the law of equivalent exchange!
Mannimarco The Worm King and patron god of necromancers ( from the elder Scrolls) is definitely my favorite
Great video! I would add the Biblical story of King Saul, the first king of Israel, secretly visiting the witch of Endor, and hiring her summon up the spirit of the prophet Samuel. In the story, necromancy is illegal at the time, but it's shown as clearly working. The spirit of Samuel does show up, but condemns Saul! I've always assumed they this story also has a lot to do with why necromancy is seen as bad in the West.
I've noticed in your videos that you tend to avoid Biblical examples - if that's because you just don't know much about those stories, I'd love to be of service! Im a Bible college graduate who went on to become an athiest story teller. If you avoid those stories to just not cause yourself problems with fanatics, well, I can understand that too!
Keep up the awesome work, I'm loving your style!
I very much agree!
Plus, I'm positive that that's where George Lucas got the name for the Ewok's home planet of Endor.
We are not jews so fuck off with your Jewish cult example.
If we are talking about the core aspect of Necromancy "Communicating with the dead" then every aspect of Shamanism seen in fiction, or even in historic tribal areas, can also be seen as Necromancy such as with the Scandinavian Druids or the Native American Medicine women or Augur.
I just see Necromancy as another form of Magic but with how often it is used in fiction, and the manner upon which it is used which often changes based on the story, makes it a discipline that is very difficult not to abuse.
As they say "Power corrupts but Absolute Power corrupts Absolutely" and what power could be considered greater than having access to the unlimited resource of the souls of the departed, willingly or not?
Scandinavian Druids? I've never heard that we had Druids here.
Necromancy gives me chills, but if merely communicating with the dead makes one too.
A very powerful but natural form of necromancy is the ancestral spirit. The bloodline of your mother and father. Your ancestors reach out toward you; assist you, and protect you. But you have forgotten them
Necromancy is raising the dead. Not talking to the dead
OK for one druidry and shamanism are opposite to necromancy they do have some similarity. druidry and shamanism are earth based while druidry is on the side of life and decay. Honouring the ancestors and the earth it self.
Necromancy is based on decay and death energy they focus on communing with the dead and preparing the recently deceased for the afterlife they can't raise skeleton but they can call the spirits of the dead to defend or protect a person or earth. The man purpose of necromancer is communing with the dead and preparing the deceased for the after life. Now shamanism can commune with the dead as well prepare the descased for the after life.
One must-watch (or must-read, for those so inclined) for a nuanced portrayal of necromancy is The Untamed (or The Grandmaster Of Demonic Cultivation for the book, which has a lot more necromancy and moral greyness)-where the main character is a necromancer.
Wei Wuxian is the fallen hero/villain of his world, who died in a horrific and tragic way 13/16 years before he is brought back as a way to get revenge for somebody, and gets wrapped up in a murder mystery/epic romance with an upright and moral old enemy of his. Wei Wuxian is a DELIGHT of a character-he's fun, outrageous, flawed and even if a lot of what he's done was VERY wrong and messed up in comparison to the correct and conventional ways of magic (like raising up an entire army of the dead to go home and murder their families, communicating with the dead through living their experiences, using the resentment of dead people as energy for magic, etc.), it's understandable _why_ he does it-and he's by no means an evil character.
The Untamed is a 50 episode, 1 season long series, available for free (with ads, but good quality subtitles) on Rakuten Viki. It's a bit confusing at first, but I'd say it's well worth it if you love good depictions of necromancy (especially past the 20 episode mark).
Using a ouija board to communicate with the dead never seems to end well
i was taught never to use that, never did dont use it.
I like anime but not that much, although my favourite necromancer is the undertaker from black butler he took ciel phantomhives brother after he died from a sacrifice and brought him back
Diablo game franchise
Anime - "Overlord", Ains Ooal Gown.
All hail bonii-chan!
Love overlord
Faust the VIII from Shaman King!!!
Trash
Orochimaru and Kabuto.
Yet I’d be over the moon if I could simply create a flame when I click why fingers 🙄 no more lighter for me.
I miss my lvl 99 necromancer in Diablo.
is necromancer a race?
In the bible King Saul really fell out of favor with God after using a medium
You should do a video on immortality next.
Don’t forget sylvanas.
If he does, I'd say don't forget Tithonus. Immortality can come with a price.
Like when he forget to mention the iconic necromancer Arthas
Death stops the time loop of life.
The Burning Crusade maybe life stops the time loop of death (:
I see death more of a final rest kinda thing.
Actually we should fear life more than death as it is the reason death and fear exists.
Good video.
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Necromance if you want to We can bring your friends to life
But your friends aren't dead and if they aren't dead Well, they're no friends of mine
Say, we can kill who we want to, With Undead of any kind
And we can rule like we we own all of this world, Leave the Living far behind
And Necromance be kings!
We can go when we want to, The night is young and they will die
And we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
And separeate their skulls right from their eyes
Say, Necromance if you want to, If we don't, nobody will
And you Necromance real cool and totally removed
taking the soul right from the kill
And say, Necromance, Necromance, Everything's out of control
Necromance, Necromance, They're all running from the horde
Necromance, Necromance, Magic flying from your hands
Necromance, Necromance, Nobody's taking the chance
Necromance, Oh well, let's Necromance
Ah yes, let's Necromance
Necromance if you want to, All your lives belong to mine
As long as we abuse it, never gonna lose it, Free from the hands of time
Necromance if you want to, We can bring your friends to life
But your friends aren't dead and if they aren't dead, Well, they're no friends of mine
And say, Necromance, Necromance, Everything's out of control
Necromance, Necromance, They're all running from the horde
Necromance, Necromance, Magic flying from your hands
Necromance, Necromance, Nobody's taking the chance
Necromance
Oh well, let's Necromance
Ah yes, let's Necromance
Oh well, let's Necromance
Ah yes, let's Necromance
Oh well, let's Necromance
Oh well, let's Necromance
Oh yes, let's Necromance
Oh, let's Necromance, yeah
Well, let's Necromance
let's Necromance
Well, let's Necromance
Oh, let's Necromance
Better than the original lyrics...brilliant
I think necromancy is depicted as evil in most stories bc of the human fear of death and the instinctive response to separate ourselves from our future fates.
Koff
Wasn't.....eeeerm....wasn't Jesus a necromancer?
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He raised the dead, didn't he? And, his followers ingest his blood in a ritual of symbolic vampirism, as well!
@@adinocc2042 only till he became a Lich and transcended death.
Quote the verse please
His followers also ate his flesh, did they not?
Necromancy was always interesting to humans as it defy the mortality. However I always found the necromancers character interesting, from someone who uses it for good intentions yet preforms henious actions, or the ones who seek immortality deciding the best way to find it is to study death, thus unlocking the magic
All I could think about was the Deathly Hallows from Harry Potter, mainly the resurrection stone and elder wand,while listening to your explanation of what necromancy is. Harry spoke to the spirits of his fallen family before he went off to face Voldemort and even revived himself afterwards. Harry wasn't evil like Voldemort. So I agree that not all necromancers are evil.
Harry didn't exactly die though. He was thrown down by the spell but it was the fragment of Voldy's soul that was released.
Flynn Crump, Hades, Faust, Smanatha, HK, Chernabog, Wraith, Asura, Marceline, Marshall Lee, Queen Chrysalis, Missi.😅
Nagash is number 1 necromancer
I love the Skyrim music, so peaceful, so many memories of being OP and wrecking everything 😋
Can you do a video on witchcraft and sorcery in the bible?
Anita Blake from Laurel K. Hamilton books, best necromancer ever!!!!
Let the dead be dead.. Don't communicate with them..
Could you please do Lich's? I bet they have an interesting history. Also great Video! Thanks for doing this.
Very well made, thank you very much
Bard: My brother brother was murdered.
Fighter: You have my sword!
Barbarian: You have my axe!
Ranger: You have my bow!
Necromancer: You have your brother!
Bard: What?
M&FE uses Skyrim Soundtrack doesn't mention Mannimarco when talking about necromancers.
My knowledge of ES lore is bad, never really played through the games other than a bit of Skyrim.
@@MythologyFictionExplained it's fine it was just a joke.
Hail the king of worms!