Is Necromancy in-universe?

[KageTokage]

People do seem pretty wiling to let the WoL do whatever considering how quick they are to dismiss the unnatural event that occurred because of them at the end of the 1-50 DRK quests.

That's about the worse we've put anyone through because of our job-related shenanigans, though.

[Enkidoh]

People do seem pretty wiling to let the WoL do whatever considering how quick they are to dismiss the unnatural event that occurred because of them at the end of the 1-50 DRK quests.

That's about the worse we've put anyone through because of our job-related shenanigans, though.

There is a difference between the fomerly forbidden/illegal Jobs the WoL is granted like WHM and BLM to necromancy though: WHM is only illegal because the elementals dictated it so after the Sixth Calamity due to the Amdapori using it to create life itself (which they used to animate their statues used as guardians in Amdapor), that the elementals regarded as an affront to nature (while entrusting the knowledge of the art to the padjal for safe keeping). Needless to say, the White Magic the WoL uses is merely to enhance their healing and they're not delving into the 'forbidden' aspects of it.

And BLM is one step up from THM anyway (as ironically THM evolved from simple spells the Order of Nald'thal used in their funeral rites), only really differing by how the spells are generated (THM uses the caster's own aether, BLM is like CNJ/WHM in using the aether from the surrounding environment). Even DRKs are semi-legal being effectively the secretive 'watchers of the watchmen' who administer justice to those in authority considered above the reach of normal means of law enforcement (read: Ishgardian nobility), but because of their clandistine nature, 'normal' law and order regards them as vigilantes at best and dark-worshipping murderers at worst.

Necromancy on the other hand, is an abomination because it involves using the powers of the Void, that alone proscribes the art completely, let alone the whole 'reviving the dead' thing which, as previously mentioned, it actually not what Necromancy ends up doing, instead summoning a Voidsent to inhabit the body of the deceased turning it into a monster like an ahriman or mindflayer - an entire Calamity came about because of a nation using Void spells against their enemies and given we spend a lot of time cleaning up the mess of others who foolishly mess with summoning Voidsent (under direction from authority), it's pretty clear-cut that Necromancer will never be a class available to players. That's just being realistic.

[KageTokage]

Necromancy on the other hand, is an abomination because it involves using the powers of the Void, that alone proscribes the art completely, let alone the whole 'reviving the dead' thing which, as previously mentioned, it actually not what Necromancy ends up doing, instead summoning a Voidsent to inhabit the body of the deceased turning it into a monster like an ahriman or mindflayer - an entire Calamity came about because of a nation using Void spells against their enemies and given we spend a lot of time cleaning up the mess of others who foolishly mess with summoning Voidsent (under direction from authority), it's pretty clear-cut that Necromancer will never be a class available to players. That's just being realistic.

It didn't seem like there was any void shenanigans involved in HW WHM quests (Aside from the voidsent that were drawn to the tainted aether that you were cleansing), so it seems like there's multiple ways of going about the matter though it was a still huge no-no to the Seedseers due to it affecting the aether in a way the elementals abhorred.

*Details for more recent WHM stuff*

I'm mildly curious if that plot point might come up again in the 6.0 WHM quests in any case, since they mentioned that Alaqa's knowledge of the forbidden art could serve to benefit them and she had to have learned the basic principles from someone/somewhere. With the ShB WHM quest bringing her back into the picture I'd be surprised if she didn't end up being a focus in the next series of quests; moreso with the mild implication that the Garleans may have been the ones she was trying to get revenge on (I can't think of any other people as painfully racist as she implied her tribe's tormentors were).