Forgotten Realms - Necromancy: Skeletons, Zombies, Ghouls, Mummies, and other Lesser Undead

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[@itzybitzyspyder]

I'm picturing an arena where necromancers fight their battlebats against each other.

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[@ArclinusCastoral]

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[@samschalt]

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[@Lorepaedia]

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[@Lorepaedia]

Not sure how I wound up ending this with a love story, but Death Knights have feelings too. 🥰

[@skippy-the-destroyer]

Neck romance see?

[@Lorepaedia]

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[@popeadam25000]

Read the book from Raven loft about the Death Knight that battles a Dracula wanabe and you will get it. I think it's called Knight of the Black Rose.

[@Lorepaedia]

@@popeadam25000 Thanks, I'll check it out!

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[@DEricTodd]

Noooo, thank you good sir! This stuff is just such a spark for my ever wandering imagination

[@Michael-dv4io]

Clawing claws being described: harp music begins playing.

[@Lorepaedia]

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Terrific content 👏

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Really great content. Thanks for sharing great videos man.

[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@demonic_myst4503]

The way ghis strictures feels so themagic without the usual high production stuff most uoutubers feel a need for this comes off like a grewt old sage giving new adventuerers a lession on the undead

[@Lorepaedia]

Stay safe out there! Some of those skeletons sound crazy. 👴

[@89st7]

Drunk dwarves vs undead is a win

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[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks so much!

[@weiswolf]

Love the comprehensive videos

[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks so much! More undead stuff soon. ^^

[@dimetime35c]

All i can think of when someone says necromancy is that runescape clip when the dude misspelled it and wrote negromancy.

[@atheos5748]

Uncle Ruckus knows all about these dark arts.

[@BartdeJong85]

Actually, black magic is also called nigromancy, so.. almost?

[@InhabitantOfOddworld]

You could learn to brew purple grape drank, or even summon fried chicken. Negromancy is a powerful school of magic indeed...

[@TheUryll]

@@atheos5748is it a sub specialty of negradry ?

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​@@InhabitantOfOddworldArise chicken! Chicken arise!

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This is great!

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I could listen to this shit all day.

[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks so much. ^^ I recommend my 9 hells playlist if you literally want to listen all day. New video out soon!

[@amberrountree269]

Ty loved I’m all about niches and undead and the place they call home plz more lore it was great

[@Lorepaedia]

Coming up, lich niches.

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[@docop8926]

​@@Lorepaediathe shadowfell was around before the spellplauge, it was in the ervis cale books....

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[@fleetcenturion]

21:17 - "Klaatu! Barada! Ni... [cough! cough!]. There, I said it... "

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[@Wintermute909]

Necromancy doesn't bother me because they deal in death, it's more that they deal with dead bodies without their permission. Also that they deal with putrefaction! I've often wondered if d&d zombies really have the original soul trapped in them, because many descriptions seem to imply that they don't but I wonder if that's just a form of misinfo used as a retroactive justification.

[@Lorepaedia]

From what I can tell in the lore animated dead in DnD generally don't have the souls inside still. It's a sort of soul-shaped echo made of negative energy. Their real soul has moved on to whatever plane it's going to. There are a few exceptions to this (in the video I mentioned a skeleton where the soul is trapped in a gem).

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Great video!! More pictures pls!! Or just switch between pictures more often

[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks, I make all the pictures so making more than 60-80 per video would be difficult without more help. ^^

[@jayisbored]

Necromancer the natural enemy of the necrophile

[@Lorepaedia]

... or best friend depending on the necromancer's attitude. :x

[@L0rdm3phiston]

I think its funny that the art if the crawling claw is a right hand. Even though he just said they are made from left hands always. Lol

[@Lorepaedia]

😅

[@sharondornhoff7563]

5:17 - Er... why does the skeleton in the image have too many forearm and lumbar bones, not to mention a seriously messed-up tangle of ribs where its sternum should be? 🤨 I was honestly expecting its skull to reveal it's a dragonborn or whatever.

[@Lorepaedia]

The necromancer who put that guy together failed anatomy class. ^^

[@BrankoSkrobica-fk2fs]

Maybe its a bone golem

[@ThrustIssues7]

Awesome Video.

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Thanks!

[@docop8926]

the shadowfell was around before the spellplauge ...at least in the cale books it was

[@Lorepaedia]

The cosmologies are kind of weird in all the wiki entries. Generally I try to avoid the "in the world tree/world axis cosmology" stuff.

[@docop8926]

@@Lorepaedia i hear ya, i dont play the game but i like the books so i thought there' mighta been a pieces i was missing.... keep up the good work bro bro

[@Lorepaedia]

@@docop8926 Thanks, I appreciate the feedback!

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What is Zin-carla in your lore? I've never played DND, but I read Drizzt books. Zin-carla is risen from dead drow which is send to kill Drizzt, but it swordsman skills are limited by operators control forced on risen drow. It's great blessing of Lloth, and failing Zin-carla is very offensive to spider queen.

[@Lorepaedia]

The elves have some unique necromancy stuff I need to look at in more detail, but generally speaking, if a god raises you fully sentient from the dead to be a champion, you're a death knight. This seems to be a catch-all term for a few unique phenomena that differ between patron gods. Maybe some others will have some more specific answers though. ^^

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[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks for the feedback, I was doing shorter videos for a while and it seems like the algo liked the longer stuff, but I will probably try some shorter form videos in the future. I appreciate you checking out the channel and letting me know what you think!

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@@FirstLast-gk6lg Some of my older videos are about 30 minutes, I think the one on baldur's gate is the least bad. ^^ Thanks for your support!

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I personally prefer these longer ones

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Is this edition 6 some of this is new to me

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Most of my information comes from the Forgotten Realms wiki, so this is all stuff from official sources. ^^

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[@j3fr0uk]

Who is one of ya fav necromancers?

[@Lorepaedia]

Shoon VII was an interesting one I remember when doing the chapter on Calimshan. Going around lighting sewers on fire and murdering unicorns.

[@vibeworldmeta]

If Liches actually existed oh man

[@Lorepaedia]

I think about this too much lol

[@anypercentdeathless]

So…?…The Ways. It’s taken from Robert Jordan.

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Soon(tm)

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Taven Winch with an adventurer in the adventurer's room: "Psssst..... Your floating flaming skull is in the room, and he is watching. Can't you like... Get him to leave?" Adevntuerer to the winch: "Yeaaaaaah..... He won't do that. But watch this. Flame skull... Summon Bass music and I call upon you to speak Berry White." Flaming skull: Begins the bass music as he begins to sing, "We got it together, didn't we We've definitely got our thing together don't we baby Isn't that nice I mean really, when really sit and think about it Isn't it really, really nice I can easily feel myself slipping In more and more ways That super world of my own Nobody but you and me We've got it together baby My first, my last, my everything And the answer to all my dreams You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star My kind of wonderful, that's what you are Tavern Winch: "Ohh....OOOohhhhh my......."

[@Lorepaedia]

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bone magicians rise up 😎

[@Lorepaedia]

bone magic is best magic.

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that is 1 sexy er, well illustrated zombie 🧟

[@Lorepaedia]

Livin' his best unlife.

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@destonlee2838 We all.know that one flame skull who rides a motorcycle.... :,(

[@Lorepaedia]

bad to the bone.

[@User-r5g5f]

I would to see lore laying out how common necromancy is among magic wielders and how they effect the political economy of these fantasy realms. I could see a necromancer getting rich by enslaving the dead and working them until they fall apart.

[@KS-PNW]

Not sure if its still cannon (haven't played since 3.5) but Thay used undead for everything from farm labor to mining and construction. I doubt many regions would tolerate it openly but there's lots of room for a story there 👍

[@Lorepaedia]

Thanks, I will try to work this into a video. As KS said Thay is good for this type of stuff, but there are a few other examples of civilizations that use undead in various ways. My Thay video sucks, I will remake it one day.

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testing new config

[@89st7]

So there are no LGB undead?

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

Undead: *exist* D&D writers: they hate all life and aim to destroy all living beings

[@Lorepaedia]

Yeah, there's definitely some contradictions in the source material about this.

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*Mentions Shadow fell* *closes video*

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One day a Shadowfell video ^^

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He said raisins….

[@Shanny_The_Random]

I originally came here to find out what a white is because ive been listening to my vampire system.....😅 can someone explain to me in detail what a white really is? *EDIT* because I didn't fully watch this to the end I don't know if they said what a white is or not.😢 *RE-EDIT* i know what a white is now. I watched the rest of it.

[@Lorepaedia]

According to the Wiki, they are undead creatures that are created through a manifestation of evil deeds and desires they had in life, which is harnessed by an evil divine force to animate them. They drain the life force of living creatures and can make new wights this way. They hate sunlight and are usually found underground. They are distinguished from other similar undead like ghouls by how they are made and the fact that they don't consume the living physically, rather they drain life energy.

[@Shanny_The_Random]

@Lorepaedia ty for explaining.... I was so confused 😕🤔

[@Lorepaedia]

@@Shanny_The_Random Yeah the typology of undead in DnD is kind of a hot mess lol, it can be confusing.

[@Shanny_The_Random]

@Lorepaedia i see lol. My vampire system is the first time ive heard of them

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I’d be a necromancer within minutes if I couls

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[@skippy-the-destroyer]

In the end we all become bone bois or goils.

[@Lorepaedia]

So true.

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Coral.

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i got more belief in this old religious stuff then the book of fiction the Bible

[@cloudld]

Ai art is gross but great video!

[@Matthew-lp6st]

Is this the background music from villages and heros? Lol

[@Lorepaedia]

This is all commercial free music so I wouldn't be surprised if you hear it in many projects. Thanks Kevin Mcleod :D

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