Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-32663439-20150625151152/@comment-25127382-20150710205017

"Heh. So you blame magic as a whole for necromancy, is that it? Everything has a dark side, just like how that hatred for magic descends from the shadows of your mind, and possibly from trauma or bad memories." Elizabeth replied. "Necromancy is questionable, in fact, conjuration as a whole. Summoning souls under your command and puppeting them around, sacrificing them for yourself. But the Black Arts are wielded by all but the fewest."

"Magic is energy, just like stamina, and yet dangerous, just like a blade, and like both, can be used for any cause, regardless of moral alignment. But those firearms you wield are not much purer. Throughout time, men and mer alike have always used everything at their disposal for questionable deeds of selfishness and gain. Bandits, mercenaries, assassins, they all wield blades and firearms for personal gain, just as mages, necromancers and mind-twisters use magic. Faith too; priests and priestesses can be just as cruel and impure as necromancers. Nothing is black and white, nothing is entirely pure and lacking in corruption. That kind of hatred for magic, when you yourself use tools made to cause pain, suffering and death, is called ignorance."

Suddenly, Elizabeth pointed at the stitching on her arm. "Incendiary rounds, for example, serve no tactical advantage in any gunfight. They don't kill the threat any quicker, the burning just causes more pain. Incendiary rounds and nitrogen shells could be considered just as questionable, and just as sick as necromancy, extending pain, extending suffering."

(With the Hero-King as my witness, and a Dark Mage as my avatar, I shall defend the arcane arts!)