That's what she said! (Your imagine is a saurian ambusher so female) Saurians despite necromancy and for the outsiders it looks like they tend to it.I am creating a saurian campaign that touches on this.
For me, the society formed by a species should be informed by its biological roots. For saurians, we know that:
* they are reptiles
* they live in swamps
* they are nocturnal
It seems safe to assume that saurians are carnivorous, and that they both hunt and scavenge for their food. Being creatures of the swamp, they are familiar with decay; they likely have very powerful digestive and immune systems that permit them to consume rotten things. This gives them a different primordial relationship with death, and the society they build will reflect this alien perspective.
Living in swamps would give saurians ready access to bones. Like certain ancient civilizations in our world, augurs and shamans would make use of these bones; this creates a necessary connection between death and augury without specifically focusing on death. For example, this is a piece of bone used in pyromancy in real life:.
The ritualistic use of these bones is not associated with "death magic" in any way; they just happen to be convenient vehicles for the intended purpose. But from an outsider's perspective, the act of harvesting corpses, carving enigmatic symbols onto their bones and casting them into fire while performing ritualistic dancing would certainly look a lot like "death magic".
Saurians are nocturnal and cold-blooded reptiles; both darkness and coldness are perceived as death-related. This makes it even easier for an uninformed or under-informed outsider to make the association between saurian augury and "death magic".
. Your are totally right fishrose. I am with you.
Anyway, I got another point why saurians are against it.
We just need to look at their society structure. Female warriors lead, saurians augurs, yeah, they are good for breeding, defending the eggs and sometimes for healing and auguring.
They are not leading a tribe, its the females duty.
And what do regular necromancer? Right, building their own society structure with apprentices and willingness soldiers. Who will be such necromancer mostly male.
So what do we have here? A male necromancer with a lot of power and an army. And he dares to negotiate with a Matriach? Don't think so.
I guess it would work, if it was a female necromancer. But still, females are warriors. I would think the female necromancer will be seen as weak, because she can't hunt or whatever.
Besides all of these, how could I have missed a saurian lore conversation here?
Right now I'm planning a saurian undead campaign. And those information are very helpful.
Statistics: Posted by Refumee — Today, 7:08 am
