ANYWAY. I wanted to make my statement disagreeing that clerics were the "right sort of people" to perform necromancy. Frankly, I disagree with this statement. In our book by Kieckhefer on page 152, it states necromancy was explicitly demonic magic. It also say that all other forms of magic were taken as implicitly demonic. A necromancer comes in direct contact with demons or the Devil. Clearly, necromancy was the WORST type of magic to dabble in, regardless who you were. Even though clerics were trained and taught to deal with this dark magic, this magic is so evil, no one is safe from it.
The best solution to this problem is not to use this magic. No one. No clerics, no necromancers, not even the old lady baking down the street. If no one messes with the darkness of this magic, the world would have been such a better place.
Lets say we have this great cleric that has mastered the skills of dominating necromancy. He has performed many exorcisms and is on the top of his game. This guy is good. However, in his training he learned of these mysterious "evil" books that supposedly give a necromancer even more "power". This well trained man of course gets curious and decides to read these magical books. This man has now doomed himself. On page 155 of Kieckhefer, he says that it is this curiosity that kills these "good" clerical men. Just reading and performing the rituals in these books would gain these men a one way ticket to the clerical underworld.
Clearly we know the lesson to be learned here. Don't perform necromancy.
(Insert Mean Girls quote: "You will get pregnant and die").
This is totally the old woman who bakes down the street!
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