Thus Spake Zaranephilpal/NonAbyssalNecromancy

Who currently knows Necromancy

Nephilpal - 02/16/2004 10:15:35

More importantly, the Abyssals book also points out that the only non-Abyssal / Deathlord necromancers in the Age of Sorrows of any note are a few of the Chosen of Endings.

Any Lunar who had it would have probably learned it from a Solar in the First Age, and would thus be very, very old and powerful. Raksi almost certainly knows her share of the dark arts. Solars don't canonically have it yet... but they will very soon through the seducing tutelage of Deathlords and Abyssals or prying into the relics of their own tombs.

--Neph

Mantle of Brigid, Bo3C

Nephilpal - 02/16/2004 10:50:20

I'm going to emphatically say no to the Mantle helping with it. The Mantle is a sorcerous artifact and that's very different. That's just my opinion, though...

As for the Book of Three Circles, I'm more inclined to believe that there was no central record of necromancy. It was still a lot rarer, so Solars jealously guarded their trade secrets and wallowed in empowering madness. You might have one with a tomb inked in blood and quicksilver upon the black-dyed pages of vellum from flayed children. Each page was a life, a prayer, a sacrifice. It was filled with traps and mind-shattering revelations designed to destroy interlopers. That kind of thing.

--Neph

Solar use of Void

Nephilpal - 02/16/2004 11:28:26

If anything existed to let Solars do Void, they assuredly would have. I think you really have to connect with the Malfeans personally to get that, so an Artifact is extremely unlikely.

Not impossible, mind you, because that's a dirty word in Exalted... just really unlikely.

--Neph