Quote Originally Posted by Archwizard View Post
Off the top of my head? Ethical Necromancy 101: "It is the natural order for all things to die so that others may live; it is only a matter of when, and how."

A class of death-revering priests who travel around serving last/funerary rites to put the minds of the living at ease, performing seances and Sendings for lingering spirits, consecrating lichyards, slaying Ashkin and grave-defilers, and occasionally performing feats of miraculous healing for those on the very brink ("No, it is not yet your time.") via acts of sacrifice that Conjurers revere all life far too much to dare tread. Specialists in aether transference; those who draw power not from death, but from the entire cycle of life and its natural culmination, draining from the fell living to give life unto the dying just.
The kinds of people who would look at exactly everything that happened in the PotD storyline and go, "This is what not to do. Nybeth Obdilord wanted to pervert the cycle to extend life beyond its natural conclusion, which is a selfish abuse of the power. If we ever catch you doing that, we'll put you to the scythe just like anyone else."

As I said, there's already a lore opening for death priests in Ul'dah with the worshippers of Nald'thal. A god of bartering.
The same city-state descended from the creators of the Trader's Spurn.
So. There's that.
So basically it would be the Diablo style necromancer, which is all about maintaining the balance between life and death and go about doing much of the things you mentioned. They are seen as much as protectors of the realm/world as they are creepy.