They mostly are. Bones are excellent containers of magical energies, and generally interact well with things related to the soul.
Skeletons are able to move thanks to magic, when they are raised the curse makes them a spiritual body that possesses the bones, it ties them together in the right way and makes them able to move according to the commands of the soul that possesses the skeleton. Though skeletons can move in ways a normal body couldn’t, like turning their head at 180° or making their arm make a full 360. Though even these magic links have limits, so if they overextend they are severed and need to be reattached.
That’s why skeletons are actually harder to raise than husks.
That is the other possibility, the less expensive one, which makes a skeleton/husk hybrid that doesn’t have exactly the same properties as other skeletons.
order of buisness
1.) Find those eligible
2.) Round up highwayman, brigands, the least liked Robber Barons, prisoners from dungeons volunteered by local leaders, paladins who don’t listen when i give them their only warning “walk away or suffer the consequences”.
3.) Put the above in a circle and use them as a energy reservoir for the task at hand.
4.) $$$
the standards of practicality in the face of something potentially significantly more dangerous than we are. at least this way we might be able to control the conditions of our fate. There is a form of survival instinct based logic in this. its hope that you can survive this longer, vs i dont help and its knowledge i woln’t survive this, and it will happen sooner.
your here to exterminate the human race one person at a time you say? As long as im last.
a fine example of conditioned self preservation and protection instinct.
Honestly, you guys are just answering a complex problem with an overly simple answer. If Sauron himself comes banging at the gates of Minas Tirith saying “Hey so, can we be allies… for real? Definitely not lying.” Of course the humans are not just going to say “okay, as long as you screw us over last.”
It doesn’t work like that, you can’t cooperate with this kind of pure evil, they’re not like a greyer factions like vampires, dark elves or such. There is no way in Hell pure evil will ever be genuine in cooperation, there’s no way in Hell all of mankind will just agree to that either.
Perhaps as an individual you can make this kind of decisions, in fact, I’d say it’s the smart decision, you pretend to cooperate but keep your options open for what benefits you the most. But on a larger scale, this just won’t work.
in a individual scale it works well.
on the large scale its slightly different. help him now, shift his focus off your people, plan for tomorrow and unite against him when you have had time to prepare and maybe just maybe they might not see it coming if you are viewed as a willing minion.
but you have a decent point it is a bit different on a grand scale you have to thin about it from a different view. can i win right now? If not without staggering losses can i win later on with less losses if the answer is no to both then its a matter of can i survive just a bit longer by sacrificing my own and am i willing to do that for the act of self preservation? fear is a powerful thing that makes us do the unimaginable in different circumstances. it is a good thing to thoink about, how frighting is the entity and in that moment are we more afraid of it to even think about it, can we even weight the pros and cons enough without fear bias. a good view is.
if they can even pull off the begining of this scene the race in question may fear to much especially with rumor mill at work on past actions.
but this is just my thoughts wich dont matter in the grand sceme of the story. just the food for ones thoughts.
oooooo tributes again…hmmm not looking like its edible…i got it ill feed it and make it Checks Madam Midnight summers The maleficent gives it a steak and puts a skull cap on the cat you and i shall rule…and who ever donated you i shall find them and promise them safety from our wight kingdoms wrath for 2.15 decades as a token of appreciation
Not just that but the fact you’re willing to cooperate with truly evil beings, out of self-preservation, indicates you’re not entirely trustworthy yourself - you know their “good intentions” won’t last forever and you know that they are harmful, but you still turn a blind eye to them because you don’t want to get swept up in any of it until it comes knocking at your door.
There’s an old poem about this and even though the original pertains politics, I think the meaning still stands (and applies) here as well. “First they came…” by Martin Niemöller. It basically tells how your cowardice can be your downfall for you did not stand by anyone when they they needed you, and thus no one will be by your side when you need it the most.
Even though selfishness and self-preservation have their own merits, long-term it may be wiser to surround yourself by friends you can rely upon when the time comes. Turning a blind eye to evil is just delaying the inevitable you invited upon yourself.
(Look at us, getting all this philosophical about our pseudo evil MCs! :P)
This conversation reminds me of ww2 and the fear causing people to turn a blind eye. It’s a regular staple, on a individual or grand staple it just matters how big of a stand you can make.
And with humanity as a whole the big evil often only needs to obliterate those who take a stand early on. Not defeat that causes maryters I mean absolute obliteration of them and everything around them to make a point of not standing for resistance. It’s a matter of holding out a silk glove while letting them know you have a iron fist. Ghenghus khan was a effective user of this tactic. You don’t need the power to use it all the time just occasionally. It does show the dark side of humanity that we are willing to bend our morals for survival even in mass becuase you start small at the individual level and grow from there then it becomes a view of “ its fine everyone else is bowing down it’s not that bad right?” Evil reigns supreme when you grow the opinion starting with those who are easier to bend in mass.
And it’s common in fiction…and nonfiction.
I think genocide could be considered pretty evil tbh; there are of course things that can be subjective towards the matter of good and evil but any society in our world or in any has their own standard of “Nope, that’s outright evil/good”.
yep
thanos believed he was making the universe a better place.
Lex Luther was beloved by the masses even enough to win the presidency. (despite he was the direct cause of the fall of the supermen)
i would agree with you there whole heartedly…but then the devils advocate in my head is screaming at me to say from whose perspective.
and that my friedn is where the concept of blue orange morality hits ( i think i said its name right)
Exterminatus immaright, I guess Tyranids don’t like it but the Empire see it as something good, yeah I see what you say; nothing is totally just evil and or good, but in most of the times there’s gonna be a high percentage of a population with a view over a matter, and what that majority will say is what will matter, or a King if the king says jump you do it or you’ll get your head rolling for sure.
even a single ork on a planet can cause billions to potentially pop up the only solution is obvios…oh crud the tyranid are here!
here you go its a concept involving the stark differences a alien culture can have on morals and concepts like absolute evil acts being seen as normal because their understanding of things.
we most commonly see it in more wide details like in tv and movies depicting meeting people and other culture from other worlds. its more subtle in real life…most times.
