Poll: Do you agree with the classification of Healing Magic as Necromancy?

Koeryn

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It's something I've been thinking about lately, and I figured it was gaming enough to ask here.

Is healing magic necromantic in nature? Why or why not?

Let the discussions begin!

(I'm taking the impartial position here, I want to see your thoughts without... Bias from my own)
 

Draxonicar

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No, but resurrection (in any form) is


Same thing with creating golems/animating objects

Same thing, different materials

Stone is a lot more resilient then bone, yaknow?
 

El Poncho

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I guess it sort of is, it is healing your cells I guess which are already dead, unless it is speeding up mitosis( I think that's what it's called).
 

FactualSquirrel

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No, because it's all about using you for the direct needs of the necromancer, rather than for the sake of healing.
 

Daniel Cygnus

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No because you're not bringing them back from the dead (unless it's a Revive spell).

Now that I thought of that caveat, I guess that makes every FF White Mage ever a Necromancer.
 

God's Clown

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It is not. Healing is based on Nature or Holy. Necromancy is based on Black or Dark Magic. Healing would be more assisting your body in healing itself at an accelerated speed. Necromancy does not repair. It just brings the dead object back to life.

Like, if you look at most Necromancers in games, if they bring a body back to life and it has a hole or something, they sew a part from another body to fix the first body.
 

Koeryn

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God said:
It is not. Healing is based on Nature or Holy. Necromancy is based on Black or Dark Magic. Healing would be more assisting your body in healing itself at an accelerated speed. Necromancy does not repair. It just brings the dead object back to life.

Like, if you look at most Necromancers in games, if they bring a body back to life and it has a hole or something, they sew a part from another body to fix the first body.
Completely off topic, but what movie is your avatar from? o_O
 

God's Clown

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Koeryn said:
God said:
It is not. Healing is based on Nature or Holy. Necromancy is based on Black or Dark Magic. Healing would be more assisting your body in healing itself at an accelerated speed. Necromancy does not repair. It just brings the dead object back to life.

Like, if you look at most Necromancers in games, if they bring a body back to life and it has a hole or something, they sew a part from another body to fix the first body.
Completely off topic, but what movie is your avatar from? o_O
Not from a movie, from the show A bit of Fry and Laurie.
 

Hurr Durr Derp

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Depends entirely on what necromancy really is in the given setting. Take raising a skeleton for example. If you're breathing (a semblance of) life into the lifeless material of human remains, then healing isn't necromancy. If it's restoring lost 'life energy' to its previous container, then healing could possibly be seen as a form of necromancy (or necromancy a form of healing).

Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura had two schools of necromancy, one devoted to healing and the other to more traditional necromantic tricks. In Dungeons and Dragons, healing (positive) energy and necromantic (negative) energy come from two very different and opposite places.

In the end, it depends entirely on the way magic works in your setting.
 

superbleeder12

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In most versions of D&D, healing magic is considered necromantic in nature.

Necromancy, simply put is toying with life. Raising the dead, and closing possibly fatal wounds are both two sides, on the same coin.
 

zen5887

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If you beilive that Necromancy deals with changing the life force of someone (which I think makes sence) then yes.

However this isn't a very common opinion.

D&D says its Conjuration (healing) so I'm going to go this that.
 

David Bray

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You don't heal anything but you reinstigate life. That's healing in my book. Many doctors aren't even able to do that.
 

Macgyvercas

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Well, from D&D 3.0 onward (I think, don't quote me), they were switched from the Necromancy school to the Conjuration school. Don't really understand how it conjures something, but...Oh, wait. I think I get it.
 

GreyWolf257

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I don't think so. Sure, you may be bringing the dead back to life, but Healing magic restores the dead and returns their consciousness and self-being. Necromancy requires bringing something back from the dead in order to serve the Necromancer and the necromanced (not sure that is a word) creatures do not often have a will of their own (such as zombies). I suppose this subject could be debated back and forth. Nice thread.
 

Koeryn

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GreyWolf257 said:
I don't think so. Sure, you may be bringing the dead back to life, but Healing magic restores the dead and returns their consciousness and self-being. Necromancy requires bringing something back from the dead in order to serve the Necromancer and the necromanced (not sure that is a word) creatures do not often have a will of their own (such as zombies). I suppose this subject could be debated back and forth. Nice thread.
Why thanks, I'm pretty happy with the response so far. =p
 

Johnnyallstar

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"Healing" is the restoration of damaged living flesh. Necromancy uses the dead. Slight difference there.