Idea for Necromancy?

[Nalarax]

I really like the idea of playing as the evil wizard, but the most evil thing that there is is a necromancer (in terms of evil wizardry) in my opinion. I enjoy all the beings filled with malice but I just love the idea of being an elder lich or ancient necromancer in command of an entire undead legion.

My idea of the basic unit would, of course, be the skeleton. Classic, and you can't go wrong with a skeleton army that requires basically no maintenance. Zombies are well and good but wouldn't you rather embrace the inner skeleton?

Anyways, I haven't put much thought into this, as it just rolled off my tongue, but I would love to see the idea of Necromancy worked with and possibly incorperated into the game.

Thank you for reading.

[Voelkar]

Just banish every non-undead and have a big graveyard. That'll do for it

[nullzero]

Bumping up an old necromancy thread instead of creating a new one based on the same theme.

What about learning paths related to necromancy, advanced necromancy and superior necromancy.

With the base one you could construct the cemetery, and have small animal / humanoid skeletons and zombies. With the advanced one you could get beast skeletons / high level skeleton heroes and vampires. With the superior one you could raise dragon bones into a bone dragon, and turn a prisoner into a mummy or Frankenstein beast.

[BadlyAwry]

Nalarax の投稿を引用：

Zombies are well and good but wouldn't you rather embrace the inner skeleton?

...of the zombie? because that feels like a bad idea.

[Yes, I have a Mic.]

I want to craft the bodies of fallen heroes and kings into abominations, bind their souls to my service and send them to meet their horrified comrades.
Is that so much to ask?

[Michal Brzozowski]

No, it's coming.

[Adversary]

Michal Brzozowski の投稿を引用：

No, it's coming.

Oh, I do love spoilers. And unironically at that. I look forward to seeing the end result.

[Yes, I have a Mic.]

Michal Brzozowski の投稿を引用：

No, it's coming.

... you are now my favourite developer.

[Yes, I have a Mic.]

Sorry to raise this thread from the dead (pun fully intended) but where are we on necromancy?

[nomadicbrain]

using the current mechanics for automatons in the gnome faction, i could see that being used for a necromancy feature where you get parts from bodies to make your new creature

[Michal Brzozowski]

From a recent news post:

On the topic of factions, another one coming up is the Necromancer, but it requires more work, so not wanting to postpone Alpha 32 for too long I’ll leave it for the next update. There are some nice ideas in there, including an Abomination minion that’s assembled from body parts of fallen enemies, and a phylactery mechanic that makes a creature semi-invincible. So I’m still very optimistic about what should come out of it once the Necromancer is fully fleshed-out.