Soul siphoning is what it sounds like: using one person's soul as an additional power source for the necromancer.
You're welcome. If you ever need your personhood reaffirmed, let me know. I'll applaud, and everything. This is, conversely, not a jest in the slightest.
Once a construct is programmed, it's functionally able to do what it needs to do without intervention, as long as the thanergetic link is maintained. I can manage the one I've got now just fine without needing a break, but a bone adept would be better at handling more. Personal stores are always a factor.
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[...Actually, there's nothing; he clicks the private filter on and then clicks it off again a long moment later. No, the only secure omni in this place besides his own is Viktor's, because Viktor is sitting next to him. And honestly, he is plain not in the mood.]
But a necromancer doesn't--can't?--draw on her own soul for that, I take.
Thank you. I appreciate the spirit of the offer.
Are bone adepts also the ones who can pull bone out of (apparently) nothing? Or can all of you create substrate for your servants as a part of your magic?
[He doesn't push. Silence by itself is evidence of some tension in this web of relationships; though what, exactly, might be causing it is something he'll have to discover at another time.]
Not for very long. I doubt anyone's tried. Spending your own thanergetic reserves is dangerous enough, soul would be even worse.
I could do it if I tried, but it wouldn't leave me in a state to do much else for a while, and I don't mean solely necromantically. A bone adept can reconstruct a skeleton entire out of a fragment of bone as easily as I can read the ghost-within-the-thing, but not vice versa. Ironically, the best of us are highly specialized.
Can a soul be completely destroyed through siphoning? Do injured ones restore themselves over time?
That's more comfortingly familiar than ironic from where I stand. The magic of effort comes entirely from specialization and expertise. A necromancy that encompasses a dozen different disciplines, where even the experts have half-a-dozen other tools in their repertoire from other specialties, is still a wonder to me.
An injured soul? I've never heard of anything like it. I've seen a body have its soul removed and filled with something else; I assumed the soul was destroyed elsewhere, that time.
I think it can be both. I doubt every facet of necromancy has been uncovered, either; the fluidity makes more sense to me than something more rigid, like the delineation of blood magic in this place.
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You're welcome. If you ever need your personhood reaffirmed, let me know. I'll applaud, and everything. This is, conversely, not a jest in the slightest.
Once a construct is programmed, it's functionally able to do what it needs to do without intervention, as long as the thanergetic link is maintained. I can manage the one I've got now just fine without needing a break, but a bone adept would be better at handling more. Personal stores are always a factor.
private
[...Actually, there's nothing; he clicks the private filter on and then clicks it off again a long moment later. No, the only secure omni in this place besides his own is Viktor's, because Viktor is sitting next to him. And honestly, he is plain not in the mood.]
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Thank you. I appreciate the spirit of the offer.
Are bone adepts also the ones who can pull bone out of (apparently) nothing? Or can all of you create substrate for your servants as a part of your magic?
[He doesn't push. Silence by itself is evidence of some tension in this web of relationships; though what, exactly, might be causing it is something he'll have to discover at another time.]
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I could do it if I tried, but it wouldn't leave me in a state to do much else for a while, and I don't mean solely necromantically. A bone adept can reconstruct a skeleton entire out of a fragment of bone as easily as I can read the ghost-within-the-thing, but not vice versa. Ironically, the best of us are highly specialized.
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That's more comfortingly familiar than ironic from where I stand. The magic of effort comes entirely from specialization and expertise. A necromancy that encompasses a dozen different disciplines, where even the experts have half-a-dozen other tools in their repertoire from other specialties, is still a wonder to me.
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I think it can be both. I doubt every facet of necromancy has been uncovered, either; the fluidity makes more sense to me than something more rigid, like the delineation of blood magic in this place.