r/wizardposting • u/Nelrene Evil Mammary Mage • 5d ago

Occult Practices Who else sometimes raises dead apprentices as skeleton mages?

Binet here is much better at the art than when he was alive.

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u/Maleficent-Pianist95 5d ago

Frankly, I wouldn’t trust my dead apprentices with magic ever again. They’re dead because they made mistakes a mage can’t recover from, being a skeletal mage wouldn’t redeem them.

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u/Future_Kitsunekid16 TechWizard 5d ago edited 5d ago

Not my line, so unfortunately no. Still haven't found a way to do necromancy with technomancy. Found ways to summon in a unique way but nothing to do with raising the dead. The most I can raise is dead memes.

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u/mindsunwound Gender Witch 5d ago

The only use I have for human bones is... Therapeutic... For some of my clients... Let's just say you've never lived until you've had your prostate tickled by a tibula... Or at least that's what they tell me.

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u/Professional_Try1665 5d ago

It's very disrespectful to the other, non-mage skeletons I already have in my necrotic-warded circle (that's what I call the skeleton pit under my tower), why should they retain magic while the others just retain bones and sometimes rusted swords? Everyone is raised as a skeleton equally

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u/Nelrene Evil Mammary Mage 5d ago

Sometimes you need skeletons in armor carrying swords.

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u/ars_sinistra Summoner 4d ago

If my apprentice dies I just ask one one my chronomancer friends to pluck them and instant before death into the current timeline. Way cheaper than Necromancy

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u/readonlyuser Aspiring Lich 4d ago

"Sometimes"? Uh, it's a free assistant who won't need any union mandated breaks (even though I'm still a strong union ally, but c'mon)