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Juste · 01-02-05, 09:07 AM

All of the undead animating spells (Animate Dead, Create Undead and Create Greater Undead) have the evil descriptor, this means they are evil aligned spells, and using them is an evil action.

Also, no matter how you slice it, animating someones corpse is downright insulting to the person it's done to. Animate Dead doesn't restore heroes of old to fight for you, it animates bones or corpses in a manner much like a golem, there is no soul in it. So no, you don't bring back the spirit of a fallen Paladin to fight for you, but you might animate the bones once into some 4 intelligence creature that obeys your every whim, is that not insulting to his memory? To have a once great leader and speaker become a skeleton with no intelligence to speak of. The bones are also destroyed after the spell ends, meaning you can't keep animating the same bones over and over.
The Create Undead line create an evil, sentient, undead creature, there is no way using such a spell can be a good act. (The creature created is evil by nature)

01-02-05, 09:07 AM	#5
Juste Orc of the Black Hand Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Denmark Posts: 70 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	RE: necromancy and the law All of the undead animating spells (Animate Dead, Create Undead and Create Greater Undead) have the evil descriptor, this means they are evil aligned spells, and using them is an evil action. Also, no matter how you slice it, animating someones corpse is downright insulting to the person it's done to. Animate Dead doesn't restore heroes of old to fight for you, it animates bones or corpses in a manner much like a golem, there is no soul in it. So no, you don't bring back the spirit of a fallen Paladin to fight for you, but you might animate the bones once into some 4 intelligence creature that obeys your every whim, is that not insulting to his memory? To have a once great leader and speaker become a skeleton with no intelligence to speak of. The bones are also destroyed after the spell ends, meaning you can't keep animating the same bones over and over. The Create Undead line create an evil, sentient, undead creature, there is no way using such a spell can be a good act. (The creature created is evil by nature)