Characters of my currently unnamed setting

[Malagigi]

This is a list of up to six great necromancers. These characters are colleagues of Professor Jonathan Ellington. They act as professors and teach the younger generation the necromantic sciences. This does not include their names, which I'll need help coming up with.

1.   He is a large awakened brown bear wearing armor made out of deer bone. At a young age he was apprenticed to his tribe's medicine man so he could learn the healing arts (curative necromancy). Unfortunately, while an older cub, his village came under attack from a human necromancer named Aceline. The warriors of the clan all fought to defend their village, and many of them lost their lives in the battle. During this battle the clan's magician strode out from his tent, and using his great knowledge and cunning destroyed many scores of these undead monstrosities while providing healing and comfort through his arcane powers. Seeing this display of power as a young cub, our esteemed ursine necromancer resolved not to become an anatomist like his former mentor but to become a more focused slayer of the undead. After this invasion was repelled he went off to rescue his fellow bearfolk (I can't think of a better name yet) and to receive training as a deathslayer. During his travels he became a great and thoughtful warrior and studied tactics, philosophy, history (outside his tribe), the social graces, and religion. His studies in theology lead the ursine necromancer to veneration of the 14 Defenders of Freedom. These 14 angels bestowed upon him great, but limited powers, making him into a marshal of liberty. He currently teaches a class on combating the undead and offensive necromancy. He's around 7'2" and weighs around 534 pounds with thick light brown fur and black beady eyes.

2.   You see a short (5'4" tall) but shapely East Asian (Japanese to be more specific) woman in her mid 30's dressed in a medium-green kimono tied off with a pale blue obi or sash. Her hands are slender, having long and graceful fingers with well-manicured nails. Her beautiful and well-formed face and amber-colored eyes are framed with long straight black hair. She uses her talents in the necromantic sciences to contact the dead and in her work as an obstetrician and gynecologist. The courses she teaches cover obstetrics, gynecology, and classical necromancy. This said, except for classical necromancy she prefers to teach only female students including her daughters (the oldest of whom is 16), because as she says, "Only women could hope to understand exactly how the bodies other women function". The necromancer herself is a widow and a mother of three daughters. She's been a citizen of the country of Talamh Saoirse for 5 years after fleeing her homeland out of fear of religious persecution, after the public execution of her husband.

3.   Sitting before you is a bald-headed dark skinned elderly man of average height and the type of build associated with that of an ancient warrior king. Heâ,¬,,¢s developed thin and barely noticeable wrinkles and a short gray beard, and you can tell that heâ,¬,,¢s aged more gracefully than other men his age. He, his family, and follows were sold into slavery by his own brother. His robes are a deep orange with blue and green symbols of birth, death (peaceful and calm death of course), family, community, protection, and public order and natural order. If one has sufficient knowledge of religion one would realize that his robes were those of a tribal priest not those of wizard (which he still is). As a priest it is his duty to perform all of the religious rites his followers observe. He prefers to remain silent about the arrival of himself and his congregants. His patron is one of Seven Virtues of Celestia (the Seven Heavens). His primary work is in toxicology and oncology.

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[Velox]

Necromantic gynecology; I love it. How does that work, exactly? I didn't see a "detect cervical cancer" spell in any necromancy supplement.

[Darkxarth]

Necromantic gynecology; I love it. How does that work, exactly? I didn't see a "detect cervical cancer" spell in any necromancy supplement.

Clearly your not shopping at the right kinds of stores.  I find that I have to remove such spells from my games or my players do nothing but learn them and attempt to use them on each other, even if there is no female character in the group.

[Tybalt]

Figures. The Brown bear in a way is typical of what I imagined--total non sequiteur people encounters now and then. Good start.

[Epic Meepo]

I didn't see a "detect cervical cancer" spell in any necromancy supplement.

detect disease[/i] spell, though. And in the 2nd edition Complete Guide to Necromancers, an Anatomist option for necromancers.

Come to think of it, Necro #2 would have quite a lot of stuff to do in a campaign. There's a template in Heroes of Horror that can be applied to evil children, and nothing says they have to be born yet to use all their nasty abilities. Not to mention child ghosts and dragon eggs that need hatching. And someone has to contemplate the age-old question about what the offspring of a dwarf and an elf would be like.

[Malagigi]

I've corrected all spelling mistakes and edited the the two character entries that are already up. Also, if you're interested in where the term Defenders of Freedom comes from, it's from from Dicefreaks.

[Malagigi]

There is a detect disease spell, though. And in the 2nd edition Complete Guide to Necromancers, an Anatomist option for necromancers.

Those both are what I was thinking of.

Come to think of it, Necro #2 would have quite a lot of stuff to do in a campaign. There's a template in Heroes of Horror that can be applied to evil children, and nothing says they have to be born yet to use all their nasty abilities. Not to mention child ghosts and dragon eggs that need hatching. And someone has to contemplate the age-old question about what the offspring of a dwarf and an elf would be like.

Those are also good ideas. Thank you.

[Malagigi]

The Umbrasa Gravelands member Nemui made a conversion of the anatomist kit into a class variant in their thread about necromancer variants.

[Malagigi]

I've add a new character to the mix. He's an ex-slave and chief priest of a Lawful Good tribe based off of the tribes of Northwest Africa.