#i would like to clarify that all necrids are born 'living' but they will die within like an hour so they're bodies can work on reanimating

[battlevann]

In the comic near the beginning he gets staked for offering "eternal life" and I'm thinking he's probably not talking about the "do you want to hear about Jesus" kind but then what? Did he actually intend to fuck with human genetics or something? And when that plan went to shit he just dumped the project? Into a pile of other failed or abandoned projects somewhere in the dark depths of the spire?

I have two ideas for this

1.he actually meant enteral life via genetic fuckery, likely splicing the necrids own undead-yet-still-living dna into humans and seeing how it'd affect them.

this was abandoned because after having to drag an unconscious person onto the spire (because no one trusts him enough to go willingly) several times, he decided that it was too much work and dumped the project (and the people LMAO)

2. he meant reanimation but was packaging it as eternal life to sound more appealing to humans. If you consider the fact that he is a necrid himself, it would be fair to assume he knows how the necrid are reanimated, and could potentially apply that same process to humans.

This was abandoned because he couldn't keep them from deteriorating, or it just wouldnt work, the biology between the necrids and humans was too different for it to work

these experiments were just incinerated, it was the easiest way to get rid of them