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Anonymous /tg/95950815#95955626
6/26/2025, 10:26:52 AM
If we’re talking about why animating corpses to work as cheap labor is a bad thing, then The Death Gate Cycle had a decent explanation.
>be Sartans (a magical race of human offshoots awakened by a nuclear war)
>decide that Earth (planet) kinda fucking sucks and split the world into several new ones
>Earth (classical element), Fire, Water, Air, a prison for their enemies, and a central hub to control it all
>shit goes wrong and the new worlds end up isolated and only barely functional
>in the Earth world, the Sartans turn to necromancy to provide manual labor after the regular humans, elves, and dwarves (elves and dwarves also re-emerged after the nuclear war for some reason) they brought with them die because they couldn’t handle the toxic fumes
>this works fine for generations
>except not really
>you see, the Sartan method of necromancy involves chaining the deceased’s soul to their corpse
>which requires an equivalent exchange of sorts; for every soul that is kept from passing on properly, another one is taken in its stead
>so the Earth-world Sartans, without knowing, have been killing Sartans from the Air, Water, and Fire worlds every time they reanimated a corpse
>also, the corpse must be allowed to rest for a couple of days before being reanimated,otherwise, you end up with a sapient, almost indestructible super-zombie who can use magic and has been driven omnicidally insane by their tortured existence
The third book ends with a magical zombie outbreak, as the book’s deuteragonist, a sympathetic young necromancer driven mad by grief, reanimates his fiancée only minutes after she dies. She then kills him and reanimates him (he is now, for some reason, the only super-zombie who isn't hostile toward the living), and then she rampages across the Earth-world’s last remaining major city, killing and reanimating Sartans. This triggers a chain reaction of super-zombies killing people and reanimating them as more super-zombies, until almost everyone in the city is dead.