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Radiating Gnome 10-20-04, 08:22 PM	A question came up on the Rat Bastard Dungeon Master's web site about legal necromancy -- what would the legal and financial systems in a community that allowed for legal necromancy look like. The discussion is here: http://65.18.220.64/aquerra.com/rbdmc/viewtopic.php?t=83&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= In throwing in my two cents, I mentioned Karrnath, but I didn't have any concrete answers. Perhaps my reading isn't as careful as it should be, or maybe this is an area that needs to be fleshed out a bit. Either way, it would be fun to hear what the rest of you think of the fate of a corpse in Karrnath. 1. Who does a dead body belong to? If it's family, what if there is no family? What if the deceased was a foreigner? 2. Are people able to sign contracts, pre-death, to deed their bodies over to necromancers? 3. A wealthy merchant might employ some zombie laborers and guards -- does he purchase them from the state? Are there private necromancers? Does a zombie laborer come with any sort of warrantee? That's a start, anyway. What are your thoughts? -rg
ChronosCrow 10-20-04, 09:35 PM	I'm sure there are many different ways one might find ways for a governmetn to try and do such things. I'm sure that Karnnath has multiple programs going that get them bodies to their undead armies. 1. Dead bodies from their Karnnathi soldiers in their alive and normal military. They've already got training and what better way to serve your country other than in life AND death. 2. Body donation. It's just like our own system of organ donation except that it's bodies instead, heck you could even donate organs first and then raise the body after that since they don't need those organs. 3. Coperal punishment. It's a fantasy world and therefore actions against criminals is bound to be more harsh and less tolerant of their humane rights. So, after your sent off to be shot by the squad with everlasint magic missle rods your body is then given to the necromancers to better serve your 'country' more than you ever have before. 4. A really dirty thing to do would be to raise the dead from the defeated enemies from the battle field, ya know it definetly happened in the war due to hasten pass during battle. This however is on the fringe of doing something in an exceptable way so it's probably frowned on or kept under wraps.
Belabras 10-21-04, 10:49 AM	I can't help but be reminded of the Dust Men and thier death contracts from Planescape. So many similarities...