4.20 Building a Necromantic Magic System

Join us for a hands-on worldbuilding exercise as we create a necromantic magic system—inspired by Tamsyn Muir’s novel  Gideon the Ninth—by answering these six questions:

1. Does the necromantic magic deal with the body or the spirit?
2. What can necromancy do?
3. How do necromancers learn to use and improve their powers?
4. What are the costs of performing necromancy?
5. What are the benefits of necromancy?
6. How are necromancers viewed by society?

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