#necromancer morty

[puer-mortifer]

The ritual is almost complete! I'm already feeling so excited! I can hardly wait...

Soon we'll be together, my love, and nothing will be able to keep us apart this time.

[mizaruwu]

In your necromancer Rulie Au Legend just kinda seems to follow around with a blank stare in every pic besides how surprised he looked right when he was revived.

How there is Legend, like..... mentally? Does he know who he is? Does he remember his life? Is his mind as sharp as it used to be or is it muddled and hard to think straight?

If remnants of the decay in his limbs stick around the logical continuation is that his brain decayed from the lack of oxygenated blood from. Ya know. Being dead. And that resulted in brain damage like when people aren't brought back with CPR fast enough

Legend knows who he is and generally remembers his life but has trouble retrieving memories. He has constant brain fog. Sometimes the fog clears up and Hyrule is happier on days like that since Legend responds more and talks longer than a few words

But its the days when is mind is clear when Legend feels horrified with the situation he's in. He used to do something about it, like putting himself back to 'sleep' but Hyrule wakes him up and heals any injury his body has– so Legend is just resigned now. 

Him following Rulie around with a dead (pun intended) expression is Legend going "this might as well be happening" Or has brain fog <-(the usual reason)

Thanks for the interesting tidbit about brain decay/damage! It explains leg's constant brainfog quite nicely! :D

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Not to keep beating dead horses like I so much love to do but I am still completely Flabbergasted and Astonished at how you (Merle Ambrose) could discover the most terrifying fact that a child that is essentially under your care has been indoctrinated into a cult (which, by the way, a process that has taken over the course of years) ((by an agent that has been stationed in a direct position to make it easier to access and manipulate children, that has easily escaped your notice for such a long time)) that worships a nihilistic entity whose ultimate goal is the absolute and total destruction of Everything and Everyone around you, and your one, single, simple-sentenced response to that is to say "Oh, that's a shame. He (Duncan) always was pretty terrible. Hope he gets better someday." And then to move on from those extremely worrying and dangerous bundle of issues permanently without taking any sort of action to protect the vulnerable and make sure nothing like this ever happens again

[c0rpsedemon]

my naming scheme for the resurrectionists causes me undue stress a lot of the time but when it works it Works

[doomedandstoned]

THE DOOMED & STONED SHOW

~Season 8, Episode 24~

This episode, Billy Goate (Editor, Doomed & Stoned), John Gist (Vegas Rock Revolution), and Bucky Brown (The Ripple Effect) play their favorite tracks from the September edition of the Doom Charts. Upcoming episodes will look at the October and November rankings, as well.

Support the show by becoming a monthly patron and get access to seven seasons of past shows and more! Visit: patreon.com/doomedandstoned.

PLAYLIST

INTRO (00:0) 1. Spiritus Mortis (no. 12) - "Martyrdom Operation" (00:31)

HOST SEGMENT I (05:30) 2. High Tone Son of a Bitch (no. 31) - "Ten Mountain High" (17:41) 3. Umbilicus (no. 25) - "I, Human" (24:36) 4. Sonic Flower (no. 37) - "Swineherd" (28:49)

HOST SEGMENT II (35:47) 5. Gone Cosmic (no. 13) - "Crimson Hand" (41:26) 6. Trippelgänger (no. 35) - "Ride" (45:03) 7. The Necromancers (no. 11) - "The Needle (47:37)

HOST SEGMENT III (53:01) 8. Abrams (no. 10) - "Like Hell" (59:53) 9. Tornet (no. 9) - "Förlorad" (1:03:52) 10. Colour Haze (no. 8) - "Goldmine" (1:08:23)

HOST SEGMENT IV (1:12:59) 11. Spellbook (no. 7) - "Night of the Doppelgänger" (1:22:20) 12. Clutch (no. 6) - "Slaughter Beach" (1:29:33) 13. Frayle (no. 5) - "All The Things I Was" (1:33:14)

HOST SEGMENT V (1:38:42) 14. Robot God (no. 4) - "Ready To Launch" (1:57:23) 15. Mutautu (no. 3) - "Lost Shoes Blues" (2:04:27) 16. Freedom Hawk (no. 2) - "Comin' Home" (2:10:50) 17. King Buffalo (no. 1) - "Mammoth" (2:16:34)

OUTRO (2:22:47) 18. Witchsnake (no. 14) - "Full Moon Wizardry" (2:23:48)

CREDITS:

Theme Song: Dylan Tucker

Incidental Music: Hellvetika

Thumbnail Art: Gone Cosmic

[asterroses]

shes level 80 now YAYYYYY

[plainandgeneric]

Tis the season of the spooky! I recently delved into a rabbit hole about the 僵尸 (Jiangshi) and 湘西赶尸人 (Xiangxi necromancer), both Chinese folklores regarding the undead. These are very underrated topics so I’ve found some fun info to share under the cut!

僵尸 (Jiangshi) directly translates to ‘rigid corpse’ (corpse with rigor mortis), but it’s better known as the Chinese vampire in pop culture. 

Jiangshi is an undead that sustains itself by consuming the energy of the living, and moves about by hopping (cause rigor mortis).

湘西赶尸人 translates directly to the corpse herder of Xiangxi. It is considered as a traditional witchcraft practice of the Xiangxi area, and thought of as ‘good magic’. According to traditional lore, families hire these necromancers so that their loved ones (usually people who died in war) could be returned and buried in their homeland, so to encourage the spirit to pass on properly. 

The stereotype of the undead in Qing dynasty officials garb was made popular by horror films and pop culture of the 80s. In traditional folklore, the dead are often clothed in black death shrouds or otherwise have their face covered by large hats. The yellow talisman in movies are depicted to render the undead docile. Here, it is said to be used to keep the spirit within the vessel of the body during transport (I read cinnabar is also used for this purpose).

The necromancer guides the dead with a bell. They would rest during daylight in lodgings specifically made to accommodate this, and only travel at night. This is to avoid frightening the living during day time. 

Of course, there is no verifiable proof for this profession, though it is speculated that some sort of performative corpse transportation existed in history that helped to generate this fascinating legend. The usual portrayal of raising the dead in pop culture is often seen as evil and malicious, so it’s a lovely change of pace to see necromancy depicted in a positive manner. 

[y-rhywbeth2]

do you have any reading recs for necromancy/undead/vampire lore?

When mining for things to build with I usually skim these. Obviously some of these are older editions and I skim rather than read in-depth so 'recommend' might be a loosely used term:

Lords of Darkness (the 1e version, which specifically deals with Torilian undead) -

Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead, which deals with undead as PCs. -

The Complete Book of Necromancers is probably the most detailed supplement on the specialisation in question (going into the long forgotten divisions of white, grey and black necromancy). -

Magic of Faerûn talks about the Shadow Weave, which has necromantic properties. -

Velsharoon is patron god of necromancers on Toril, so Powers and Pantheons, Faiths and Pantheons, and Magic of Faerûn again if you want to look into him. -

Van Richten's Guide to Vampires -

The Monster Manuals (except 4e's) -

Vampire of the Mists was interesting for little titbits like 'vampires cry blood' and 'yes, elven vampires still reverie.' -

Since it's related, I guess maybe the Manual of the Planes in its various editions regarding the energy planes? -

Volo's Guide to all Things Magical has some undead-related stuff in amongst there. Like a brief mention of a vampire's grave dirt being used as spell components for necromancy, wards against necromancy and/or undead, preserving decaying flesh, folklore (and what does and doesn't work), and item descriptions having 'living,' 'dead' and 'undead' bio matter actually being distinct categories from each other for magical purposes.

[lemon-natalia]

Gideon the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 13

Harrow really needs to accept this isn't something she's going to be able to do alone, and keeping information from the one person who's properly on her side here is not exactly the best idea

Rigor mortis, Gideon you hack

Teacher can give permission to enter the laboratory, but not the X-22 door hmmm. makes me wonder who can give permission for that one ... potentially the emperor, given this palace technically belongs to him? another priest?

see i had been assuming that the testing facility, especially with how old it was, was something to do with creating or developing necromancy, but seems like it was actually set up for necromancers already

i had to go back to the chapter where Gideon finds the secret passage and see if there actually was the animal skull mentioned, and yep there it is

Gideon Nav Talking Time sounds like a terrible children's television show. also good for Gideon for setting boundaries

back to the (now, apparently) haunted lab again, yay! surely nothing could go wrong with this plan

glad Harrow and Gideon are finally gonna at least try to work as a team from now on, they'll have a better chance of figuring stuff out this way

i wish i could say i had a more concrete theory for whats going on with the labs and the doors and all but honestly i have nothing for now, just here for the ride

[phi8]

Calcium

Plasmoid Phantom Rogue

At the gamestore I frequent, they're starting a new season of organised play, and Calcium is my new D&D character! They were the runt of a group of gelatinous cubes, but got Awakened by an adventuring party. Calcium then became the assistant of the wizard of the group, a necromancer. Clacium lacked a real spark for magic, but picked up a few tricks. With that adventuring party Calcium learned they also really liked killing stuff, like all their cousins in the old dungeon. At some point Calcium went solo, persueing a carreer as bounty hunter, but they still do some adventuring every now and then. Their personality is based on Krombopulos Micheal from Rick and Morty. Calcium keeps bones from their targets in their body as trophies (and to draw a little magic from, as a treat)!

[puer-mortifer]

I'm going to a funeral! I almost can't believe I got invited, this is just too perfect! I won't have to do all the searching around to find her corpse because they already wanted me there!

Aah, it's almost like the universe wants me to succeed, and I'm not saying no to such an opportunity! I gotta go get my black suit, I prefer purple, but I look stunning in black too.

[vgilantee]

Minotaur!Simon's mate is officially a necromancer! their name is currently Bone, but im thinking maybe Mortis? but im open to suggestions as well! (they're not a very good necromancer just yet hehe)

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Okay all of you are geniuses because a lot of you who see my necromancer posts brought up a super interesting concept that even u hadn't thought about in length, which is the possible discrimination that ALL necromancers in Wizard City probably faces due to past events, not just Malorn

Like ofc this isn't seen in canon but it's super likely that Death students in particular face certain hardships that other Schools may not. And the questions that I asked myself about this topic is super interesting:

Do Death students deal with a certain stigma surrounding their choice of study, or even their character? Are Death students in particular the only group that goes through a different type of treatment that others don't? Do Death students suffer from rumors or beliefs that are harmful to them in any way? Are Death students unwelcome in other groups of students, do they suffer from double takes or ostracization when they do or say things that typically aren't an issue if other students do them?

And another interesting part about this is the source, the fact that a majority of the essential or impactful villains to the plot are all Necromancers that come from Ravenwood. Like of course everyone in Wizard City has to know about Malistaire, but do they know about Morganthe years back, or Duncan when he drops out and is recruited in a cult?

Like I can imagine people back then have heard of Morganthe being expelled; I wonder if there had been any rumors or speculations surrounding her following her expulsion. Nobody was there except for Morganthe, Malistaire, and Ambrose; maybe there were whispers and twists to the story of what actually happened. It's unfortunately very easy to spin an exaggerated tale that maybe Morganthe was purposely violent and unreasonable, and following that, "Maybe it's because she's a Necromancer."

And Duncan, who was never really popular in the first place, after spewing all of that hot air about being Malistaire's best student, suddenly Malistaire becomes a criminal and Duncan is left with what? Was Duncan ever treated differently after that? Were people then possibly AFRAID of him? Perhaps maybe, that he'd soon end up like Malistaire in the future? And imagine how much worse it would get, if it somehow came out that Duncan took up with some bad people and attacked Wizard City's own hero. It wouldn't be about, "Duncan was manipulated during a dark time in his life and did bad things because of that", it would be about, "Duncan, who revered the former evil Death Professor, turned to a life of crime and followed in his mentor's footsteps". By the way, notice how they were both Necromancers?

And then it really puts it into perspective when you realize, why hasn't the Death School been repaired by now? How come no one has looked for Dworgyn or Mortis, despite him having been MIA for a while?

This would have been a cool topic to explore within the game if handled correctly imo, it opens up so much more into the characters and their perspective, the trauma they might be facing. It's sad and definitely unfair and unwarranted but it's realistic and a very blatant thing that just happens. TL;DR, more trauma to Malorn, Duncan, Morganthe, and every single Death student ever from me because I have brainrot

[angrygonk]

What's your rpg?

Due to my inability to finish one thing there are many answers:

-The rpg i run for a group of friends online would be the main answer, it's a late 17th century style story with them in general trying to get to a state now rules by a "blue necromancer". There is a shitton of lore but i think it's pretty fun one. And there is so much lore after the events of my game because there is a second game I'm a player in set 600 years later during the industrial revolution era. If you want i may autism about the lore a bit more.

-The wargame/rpg system i started making, named PMC - private military cat. Humans exterminated themselves extremely slowly, no big bang, no great war, they just stopped reproducing. Mother nature doesn't like an empty chain link so she elected a new dominant species, and it was the worst choice she could've made. Now earth is ruled by dozens of cat kingdoms, republics and tribes, all armed with reverse engineered human technology. I even started 3d modeling minis for this one and after i rework it a tad (it was too complicated for no reason) i will maybe even release it on itch.io

-Mortis Veni, an idea for a card based rpg that never got anywhere (but i transplanted sparkers from it to my main rpg)

-There is another system i started conceptualizing, the annoying retiree rpg, your stats are: bones aches, dementia, irrationality, god-fear, loss of senses and hand shakiness. Along the way of the story your stats would become worse and worse as you level up, the game would basically be set in the modern world but with fantasy elements because that would be funny.

[moodymisty]

The Emperor in your new Mortarion fic really said “Wow you’ve got nothing going for you huh? not even an army or royal title or anything. But what can I say, you are the one dating my cringefail toolson after all. Didn’t expect much more from him. Anyways try not to irreparable break him/yourself byeee” and just up and left. Hilarious

Fulgrim canonically had/has multiple partners, Roboute has something going on with Yvraine and a coparenting situation with Cawl, not to mention whatever the fuck happened with Sanguinius and the Silent King. But Morty decided he’s gonna have a completely normal spouse whose hobbies are like, running a noosphere tumblr blog.

An hour later the Emperor probably barges into Malcador’s room and vents (haha amogus joke) to him about what an absolutely basic partner Mortarion has. “They probably don’t even know basic martial combat!!” He whines, “And I’m supposed to invite them to important events now?? This is disgraceful honestly. XIV lived on a planet filled with mutants and xenos and necromancer wizards and he chose what? Some mortal who ‘loves and cherishes’ him?? Ugh. I would cry but it would mess up my pure gold makeup.” (The entire time he’s saying this he’s lying down on Malcador’s lap. Practically crushing him with the weight of his armour)

Corvus and Vulkan meeting Mortarion's mortal and seeing that not only are they not fucking insane, but are actually respectable and normal:

Where the fuck did you find them what planet what region of space please Brother we need to know wherethefuckdidyou-