Scarification skill
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The Necromancer Guild is under development and not currently available in the game. All information posted here is based on previously announced features, and as with any unreleased system, these are all subject to change.
The proposed central skill for Necromancers. Unreleased at present.
Scarification is a guild-specific Magic skill, which they will learn at a secondary rate. It will not be a primary rate skill for Necromancers.
Why?
Part of it is consistency. Even though Astrology is important to the identity of a Moon Mage, they are magicians first and foremost. The bread and butter of the Moon Mage lifestyle is being a magic user, everything else takes a back seat to that.
Scarification is important to the identity of Necromancers, but in modern times their first and foremost concern is to survive. The Great Work / your own private undead army / redemption isn't going to matter much if they strip your soul naked and hang you first.
Part of it is lore-based. Astrology and Scarification both represent manipulation of forces that even their practitioners do not fully understand. If there is such thing as a Astrology Prime Moon Mage, he is a seer without modern peer, perhaps like Jares Braun and Master G'nar Peth of old. If there is a Scarification Prime Necromancer, the dread lich is well and truly buried in history.
