Necromancy?

[Lauront]

You can't even eat mochi without it talking back to you these days...

I think he meant the Dapper Zombies themselves.

Anyways, I do agree that it's just an issue of framing. They can make up a dozen of reasons we can use necromancy for some reason (it seems likely we'll be interacting with the 13th shard in the near future), or create an art that is functionally necromancy, but justified differently by lore. It's not necromancy! Its placing small mindless aetherial constructs into bodies?

Still, I find it unlikely. The usage of corpses just seems ghastly for the WoLs tone. Not to mention that China might find the theme unsavory. Something with ghosts might work I guess?

They had cut a Japanese shaman type job from SB, so that may give some inspiration for a ghost theme if they were to take it in the onmyoji direction.

[Lersayil]

You can't even eat mochi without it talking back to you these days...



They had cut a Japanese shaman type job from SB, so that may give some inspiration for a ghost theme if they were to take it in the onmyoji direction.

If we go with the actual manipulation of the souls of the dead, they would probably want to go in a direction where the lore and aesthetics are handeled very... reverently? Not sure it would be what the necromancy people are looking for.

Or now that I think about it, there is a job mechanically close to what a necromancer would be: puppeteer. Tonally and lore-wise completely different, but a lot more family friendly. Which SE might care about I guess.