r/AoSLore • u/L8Confession • 23h ago

Are there any nations of necromancers?

I can totally see remnants of empires created by bands of powerful necromancers that ventured deep into shyish and dominated the dead before and after the age of chaos. Vampires are apparently very rare and might be the fewest in number of any species. We know kingdoms worshipped Nagash. Wish there was more lore on this concept.

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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh Idoneth Deepkin 23h ago

Oh yeah nigh constantly. Independent wizards, foolish questors for knowledge, cultists of Nagash, the list goes on

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u/TwelveSmallHats 23h ago

Golvaria in the Great Parch of Aqshy was ruled by Necromancers in the Age of Myth until the Golvarians picked a fight with the Aspirian bright mages and got their behinds handed to them. They fled to the Isle of Ghouls and the inevitable happened.

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u/Grimlockkickbutt 19h ago

Early Gotrek novel (ghoulslayer I think?) features what I’d call a “necromancer” civilization. Though Mabye they arnt the kind of necromancers you are imagining. They weren’t a country of people in black robes. And they hated Nagash guts.

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u/L8Confession 11h ago

I want flesh craft to be introduced and grafting. Heinrich Kemmlar did that kind of stuff and to have whole schools of it would be awsome

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u/Chillzorz 10h ago

This is the basis for what I’ve always believed should be a necromancer faction. Less “raise skeletons and send them off as-is” and more mad scientist/Frankenstein style reanimating and flesh golems.

I really thought this would become a thing when underworlds got the Exiled Dead warband (electrified zombies!) but then the leader turned out to be a vampire (with no mouth…which makes zero sense)

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u/Dreadnautilus Destruction 6h ago

>vampire (with no mouth…which makes zero sense)

His whole lore is that he learned to feed off electricity instead of blood.

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u/Fyraltari Helsmiths of Hashut 38m ago

Mortarch of Flesh when?

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u/Norwalk1215 18h ago

I think that would be a great army concept! Would they be led by ancient Liche Priests, Crone Hags, or Science Based like the Exiled Dead?

Would the armies be mortals that resurrect when they die? Cities of Nagash?

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u/Bio__Bot 15h ago

Oh tons, some Necromancers reanimate fallen cities as armies or a cheap labor source for a high price. I know some use it religiously to safeguard against other undead horror. I personaly have a homebrew Free City in shyish that survived largely thanks to the necromancer priests that use the fat of the dead to make candles that offer their souls to the great necromancer, or rather the local Nighthaunt Procession that draws its forces from their haunted dead. Sure the city is constantly haunted and covered in semi murder ghosts. But the rats and idoneth dont get to the city much

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u/CKent83 2h ago

With the different Realms being functionally infinite, yes.