I don't understand. The whole point of Magnagora is to try and spread the taint, correct? Undeath is considered the height of the Taint's touch to an extent, right? So..why, ICly, would people be upset that they had discovered a way to raise their entire civilization to higher heights within the taint, beyond anything that anyone outside of Magnagora can imagine?

Since the Black Crypt is up now here's a list of my thoughts:

Pluses:
- finally a resurrection ability
- Archlich - no penalties and a nice ability (I wonder if it stacks when few people use it?) No it does not stack

Minuses:
- liching novices
- giving away the ability that crowns Necromantic service for power upkeep (it hurts but people will shrug it off)

Ideas:
- show a difference between Archliches and Liches under race as well (give us more love!) Agreed.. I stated the same above
- no liching novices! (somehow)
- please do not force Archliches to run to the Black Crypt to snatch the arch-lich seed - as it is, it forces us to run from wherever we died to the Crypt to put it up again (say mid-raid), which we won't do and thus later get someone to kill us/heartstop just to get the arch-lich seed back (-20 power!). One in a lifetime exposure to the Black Crypt should be enough to re-gain it since we are so damn good and study Necromancy in comparision with the common folk I'm pretty sure that trans necro people can just put it up again as normal
- Instead of a Lich change say... Demi-lich anyone? Resurrect, but since they did not sacrifice their life to the study of Undeath they cannot harness the Contagion and Chilling Touch powers.

Problems:
- Bugged it already but in case it is noticed here faster: the construction did not take the money or the spectres it was supposed to take.
Overall IC:
Overall OOC:

I may be wholly wrong, but I thought tainted undeath was an entirely different thing to undeath through necromancy.

Nope. There was no Necromancy post-Urlach pre-Taint. When the Taint swept through the Basin, it turned people into undead, both way back in the day and more recently when Kethuru started breaking free. That is how Necromancy developed, through the first Ur'Guard in Magnagora. Before that, the Ur'Guard didn't practice necromancy, and the name was more just passed down from the original group that served with Urlach.

At least that's my understanding of it.

Edit: Though yes, i'm not saying Rowena is a Lich. There is a difference in the level of undeath that comes naturally with the Taint and that which can be developed. But they're still both derived from the Taint as far as I know.

Rezzing souls would be lovely.

FYI-

Glomdoring doesn't boast the resurgem spell.

Yes yes yes. I know these things.

But I would argue that necromancy is no more tainted than the Wyrd. It's not derived directly from the Taint, it is derived from Nil.. which happens to be tainted. It's not the same thing as the animation that took place when Ladantine loosed Kethuru. And yes, it's not the same thing as Urlach's undeath.

in the case of the Wyrd, the taint was sucked out

That's what you think.

That's what you think.

Whatever. It doesn't change the fact that Nil is 100% tainted. The Demon Lords are 100% tainted. The source of their powers are 100% tainted. So why would they bestow untainted powers when they support the taint and want to spread it?

That's what you think.

Expanding your crow rez skill to the whole commune has the same problems expanding our moon rez skill does, your crow skill needs other crow specific skills to work (the nest) our moon skill needs other moon specific skills to work (the coven).

There is always that possibility of having a by-product of evoking Glomdoring's specific power to have a communal crow nest descend somewhere.

*Shrug* I just hope Celest gets trueheal for every citizen and something decent for those who have already have it.

Trueheal > Lich