Necromancy

A while ago i saw a comment on YouTube where a person wondered about what the view on necromancy was in Skyrim. It interested me so i thought i would check out the history of the necromancers and suddenly I remembered the connection between the Mages Guild and Mannimarco, who is the leader of the largest necromancer cult known as the Order of the Black Worm.

In the book "Mannimarco, King of Worms" it states that there were two students with great talent living and studying at the isle of Artaeum, which is the largest island of Summerset Isle, under the Psijic Order. One of the students where kind and warm, but the other was dark and cold (I wonder which one is Mannimarco). It was at Artaeum that Mannimarco began to rise the dead and trapping souls for his own use. However the other student was known as Galerion, whom is the founder of the Mages Guild. Galerion had confronted Mannimarco about his necromancy and commanded him to stop his black art. To no surprise Mannimarco did not cease his hobby and moved to the mainland, to Tamriel.

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"You have found a wolf, and sent the beast to flocks of sheep,'
Galerion told his Masters, 'A terror on Tamriel has set."

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The leaders of the Summerset Isle cared little for the young necromancer, and when Galerion asked for the right to pursue the beast he was told to forget about it. It was now that Galerion decided to create a mages guild, where magic would help others. He too left Artaeum.

In Tamriel, Mannimarco had become the first of the undying liches by consuming the power of other wizards and relics. He practiced his dark arts and left trails all over the land. He had become a moving corpse and there was little left of him that was human (which is strange since he seems quite normal in The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion).

Galerion gathered mages and knights to fight against the necromancers. He swore to kill every undead walking on Tamriel. He led his troops to a mountain pass where a great battle against mages and necromancers took place. The battle was a chaos of magic and weapons. The necromancers summoned the dead from the ground and the battlemages slew countless of lives with their fire and swords. Suddenly Mannimarco had joined the battle and true horror was inflicted to his enemies. He sucked their lives right out of them. What happened next is uncertain but it seems as if most died, including Galerion and Mannimarco. The relics that had given the King of Worms his power was recovered by the mages guild. It really seemed as the King was gone, but you can't kill an undead.

So what is the view on necromancy in Skyrim? If there is going to be a mages guild with roots from Galerion, necromancy is probably not going to be that popular. If not, maybe it is not illegal but not that common. To be honest i am guessing that it is not that popular since the other regions of Tamriel seems to have similar opinions about raising the dead.

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