Will there be a god who gives you access to necromancy?

[Nihrahk]

Now I know that magic will be very limited and you shouldn't be able to summon an army just like that, but I'm a bit curious. Here are my ideas if it is in fact a thing:

Limit it to two or three minions at most, and the majority of your undead minions would be rather fragile and weak compared to a human. Also, you would need the corpse of a human for them to work in the first place, you won't be able to summon them out of nowhere. Now for the interesting part... Imperfections. Basically, if you chopped off an arm, leg, head or even right in half, the skeletons or whatever undead minion you summon will be missing those parts too. Some imperfections might come in handy though, as a headless skeleton will obviously be immune to headshots. Thoughts?

[Littletinker]

probaly some thing modders might look into later date

[Khan]

here a list of gods we could encounter in the hyborian age : http://www.hyboria.xoth.net/gods/gods.htm

but you don't need to believe in a god to gain necromancy, enchanted objects will help sorcerers ;)

[Alfred Hitchcock]

I actually think that if Necromancy shows up, the summons will be fairly decent. The catch is that it actualyl takes work to summon so no conjuring them mid-fight. Most necromancy in the Conan universe was highly ritualized (as in needing an actualy ritual or an enchanted item) not just a mere incantation or a wave of the hand.

[Nihrahk]

Originally posted by Alfred Hitchcock:

I actually think that if Necromancy shows up, the summons will be fairly decent. The catch is that it actualyl takes work to summon so no conjuring them mid-fight. Most necromancy in the Conan universe was highly ritualized (as in needing an actualy ritual or an enchanted item) not just a mere incantation or a wave of the hand.

I'm cool with that as long as you're at least required to have corpse nearby to summon an undead minion. I don't want it to be where you summon a skeleton out of thin air.

[Littletinker]

sounds fun long organised systems can be inteesting and have draw backs if a player ruins it

[yuzaijin]

It would be cool if they integrate necromancy this with the thrall system. Instead of capturing people and making them slaves, necromancers could kill them and turn them into permanent undead minions.

[Littletinker]

they could tie in demonic same way tho alot more complicated maybe?

[SeriousLie]

For EA there will be forms of magic through objects. But they're saying there will be a sorcery system, it will be revealed with the devroadmap a bit before EA release. For now they're not giving detail about magic possibilities such as necromancy for they said it's still heavy in development, that's why they're not giving any details or special hopes around it.

[theseeman]

Originally posted by yuzaijin:

It would be cool if they integrate necromancy this with the thrall system. Instead of capturing people and making them slaves, necromancers could kill them and turn them into permanent undead minions.

So much this. and instead of a normal settlement you could build a very expensive settlement out of stones and rare gems. basically you would have to invest a lot of time and effort into building the ability to be a necromancer. your thralls would act as a cult for you until a time when you killed them in a ritual and then they go out and carry dead back to your temple tomb abomination station. There could even be sever penatlies to base stats in return for this power.

it could be an expansion pack or what ever. I would love to see necromancy implemented. I mean necromany would surely get you exiled if not worse. or the exiled area would be a good place to practice and grow your strength.