[If I hadn't died once already-- it's a sentence that snags at her insides for reasons, and she quietly files it away to ask more about it later. For now though, it would be kiiinda rude to skip over the other woman's questions. Even if she wants to hear it, and wants the promised tales of battles won even more.
She rolls one muscular shoulder in a shrug.]
Okay. So it's not magic exactly...you're either born with the talent for it or not at all - like me for example, I don't have a necromantic bone in my beautiful body, thank fuck - but it also takes a shit ton of study. Learning boring theorems, reading dusty old tomes...
[And here she exaggerates a yawn.]
Not for me. But basically there was some kinda extinction event a long-ass time ago, and then The Emperor Undying instigated the resurrection, and replenished our system, and when he did that necromancy awoke within his resurrected population. He's the only one who can really bring people back to life though...most necros manipulate the dead, like, with skeletons. Or there's flesh adepts, and spirit adepts, but none of them can really bring anything back from the grave besides hollow constructs. You'd want to ask my necro about that though if you wanted to know more. I'm no expert, and I'm sure as shit not a scholar. But I think the reason we gave up on guns like, thousands of years ago must be to do with necromancy. Maybe they blow the bones into too many bits? Maybe swords create a bigger thanargy bloom? I honestly don't know.
[She casts a glance at Shepard, and there's something eager in it.]
But do you know what's more interesting than unwholesomely messing around with dead things? The battles that cause people to be dead in the first place
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She rolls one muscular shoulder in a shrug.]
Okay. So it's not magic exactly...you're either born with the talent for it or not at all - like me for example, I don't have a necromantic bone in my beautiful body, thank fuck - but it also takes a shit ton of study. Learning boring theorems, reading dusty old tomes...
[And here she exaggerates a yawn.]
Not for me. But basically there was some kinda extinction event a long-ass time ago, and then The Emperor Undying instigated the resurrection, and replenished our system, and when he did that necromancy awoke within his resurrected population. He's the only one who can really bring people back to life though...most necros manipulate the dead, like, with skeletons. Or there's flesh adepts, and spirit adepts, but none of them can really bring anything back from the grave besides hollow constructs. You'd want to ask my necro about that though if you wanted to know more. I'm no expert, and I'm sure as shit not a scholar. But I think the reason we gave up on guns like, thousands of years ago must be to do with necromancy. Maybe they blow the bones into too many bits? Maybe swords create a bigger thanargy bloom? I honestly don't know.
[She casts a glance at Shepard, and there's something eager in it.]
But do you know what's more interesting than unwholesomely messing around with dead things? The battles that cause people to be dead in the first place