Hello everyone, here is the second phase of the new program Big Fat Cat Pond
Today's protagonist is the second shift of the Night's Messenger, the Necromancer
【Pale Fortune Teller】
Necromancer is one of the companions of the seventh character, The Night's Messenger, introduced on August 6, 2009, and is the name of the magician who lives in the underworld as a magician who drives the dead into battle through magic
In dnf's worldview setting, the dark elves, like the elves, have a long tradition of ancestor worship, believing that after death, the soul will return to nature and become an element after countless years, and then the elements will form a new cycle of life
Later Aradites discovered that the soul of a creature after death, that is, the "ghost god", has a powerful power far beyond the natural elements, and the ancient Arad people explored the technology that directly drives the use of the power of the soul, that is, the core combat technique of the ghost cry, "séance".
After the death of Barak, who had caused a bloody storm in all parts of Arad, his descendants had been persecuted by their compatriots who had suffered from war, and Bererian, a descendant of Barak, wandered around the continent of Arad in order to avoid the eyes of his people, and under the inspiration of a certain ghost cry, learned how to drive the ghost god through magic, and he was the origin of the future dark elf necromancy
Beretrian used the power of the necromancer to take revenge on his compatriots, but he eventually died because he broke the taboo, exactly the same fate as the first generation of Ghost Cry, although Beretlian proved with his own experience that learning necromancy was the beginning of tragedy, but some dark elves saw the potential of necromancy, and the Dark Elf Elders even began to systematically cultivate necromancers, and necromancers formed a new core force within the dark elves, and even competed with the traditional assassin spy force
Learning Necromancy is called "the beginning of the Road of No Return" by mentor Minette, and compared to other dark elves, it can be found that the skin color of the necromancer takes on an unhealthy purple-white color, which is quite outlier than other dark-skinned dark elves
The name Ofantos, which means "death" in Greek, is borrowed in English, giving the meaning of "death-seeking impulse", which also shows the contradiction that necromancers must suppress their self-destructive impulses at all times, and that the pursuit of power requires an unimaginable price
The three-awakened necromancer completely ignored the fear of life brought about by the "terror of the primordial beginning" and successfully established a contractual relationship with it, the word Moros, the god of death, which itself means "fatal death", and the necromancer has fully embraced death after three awakenings, becoming a living corpse completely immersed in the joy of death
The standing painting of the Three Awakenings depicts a large number of moths wrapped around the crown of the necromancer's crown of thorns, because in ancient Greek philosophy, the butterfly was considered the embodiment of the soul, while the ugly moth was considered to be the opposite of the butterfly, symbolizing the desecration of the soul
【Reality Inspiration】
Night's Messenger was actually one of the playable characters that had been established when the game was established in 2003, but her actual costume would not be until 6 years later, and unlike the original five characters who showed a strong neophle style, the four classes of Night's Messenger had a stronger Dungeons & Dragons style
The four basic settings of the Night's Messenger are directly derived from Dungeons & Dragons, for example, the setting of necromancers wearing light armor is directly derived from Dungeons & Dragons, and even the setting of the Dark Elves itself has a lot to do with the original setting of Dungeons & Dragons
It is worth mentioning that although the project was established early, but the determination of the specific image has undergone a series of twists and turns, the earliest is intended to fit the dnf relative to the Oriental style of the world view, set to the Arab style, and later the official want to replace the female ghost swordsman with the necromancer warlock, so the necromancer's transfer style directly uses the first version of the female ghost swordsman's shape, which was mentioned in the previous fat cat pond, at the same time, the current way of fighting actually belongs to the initial setting of the Avenger, so the necromancer can be said to be a mixture of the avenger and the female ghost swordsman
The historical necromancer is very similar to the witch mentioned in the first issue, the word Necromancer comes from the Greek language, is a combination of the prefix νεκρο- and the oracle μαντε α, in traditional culture necromancer and evil are not equal, they are an important part of primitive ancestor worship
They were even sacred professions in history, the Greek necromancers awakened the souls of ancestors or ghosts through necromancer (psychicism), obtained mysteries and prophecies through the mouth of the soul, and in Homer's Odyssey, the necromancer culture in Greece around the eighth century BC is mentioned: the hero Odysseus learned necromancy from the witch Carthena, and in the underworld Odysseus used necromancy to awaken the soul of the prophet Teresias, and learned from his mouth of the coming future
In modern popular culture, necromancers remove the attributes related to prophecy and the divine, but appear more as [beep] wizards related to corpses, deaths, taboos, etc. The popularity of Christian culture in the Middle Ages is the direct cause of this stigmatization, they believe that resurrection and prophecy are the power of God, so necromancy is also considered to be part of witchcraft, and necromancers in the Middle Ages were considered to be colleagues of demons
This stereotype is also perpetuated in modern pop culture works, with necromancers described as [beep] wizards with the power to manipulate corpses, believed to be able to drive a large number of dead to form an army of the undead to fight, and necromancers in DNF also have similar skills to drive a large number of dead people to fight, and because of this, early players even thought that necromancers were the second "summoners" in the game.
In modern occultism, necromancy is almost synonymous with mediumship, spiritualism, etc., and the medium plays the earliest function of necromancy, asking the souls of the dead to attach to the body of the medium, so that the medium can briefly become the spokesman of the deceased in the yang
dnf's necromancers have the signature act of summoning the souls of their ancestors to cling to their bodies, although from the history and setting of the game this is a kind of imitation of the Dark Elves' predecessors, and the similar technology used by Devil May Cry is called (Séancering) in the game.
The necromancer's use of the power of the ancestor Barak is achieved through the way of séance, it may be that Barak's power is too strong, allowing Barak to move on the battlefield will cause the inevitable rampage, and the second awakened necromancer can temporarily liberate Barak's true power to crush the enemy
In his normal state, the Necromancer has Barak attached to his body like a stand-in, gaining a portion of Barak's power, while driving Barak's soul to active combat through necromancy magic
Another iconic symbol of the Necromancer is the spider
Spiders are not directly related to death, spiders are harmless creatures to humans, but because of their terrible appearance, and the deadly venom of many spiders, as well as the profound means of predation, they are synonymous with [beep], ferocity and death
The reason why the Dark Elves and spiders in dnf are related to each other is probably from the above-mentioned Dungeons and Dragons, in this board game, the dark elves, also known as drow, believe in the god of the spider goddess Lolth.
dnf's Dark Elf setting can find a lot of shadows from the Drow Elf setting of Dungeons & Dragons: for example, the Drow Elf was originally a member of the Elves, and for some reason was banished to the Dark Underground World Dark Region (Underdark, the dnf version is the Dark City Underfoot), which is an underground world full of stalactite holes and tunnels, and the Drow Elf also changed from white to black similar to coke due to the influence of underground radiation. At the same time, the average age of the Drow elves is about 700 years old, which is also very similar to the average lifespan of the dark elves in the dnf, and the belligerent nature of the dark elves in the pursuit of powerful power is also very similar to the Drow elf setting in Dungeons & Dragons
One of the adventurer characters, which is different from the common Drow Elf, is also reminiscent of Krent
Dark elves are considered proficient in magic, which is also related to spiders, spiders are considered to be symbols of creation and wisdom in the West because they weave exquisite spider webs, in the occult spiders are associated with magic arrays, construction techniques, etc. Shadow dancers who use shadow magic, ninjas who fuse chakra power to transform dark elf magic, etc. Classes have not yet been introduced, necromancers are set to compete with physical assassins. Therefore, the spider that is closely related to the dark elf is also strongly bound to the necromancer, before the dnf, the spider is clearly used as an element of the necromancy is very rare, which is also a common phenomenon of return in modern creation, some elements that do not have much relationship have become new inherent impressions after re-creation and reinterpretation, and the mutual influence between different settings to give birth to a new setting is also one of the most fascinating places in the creation
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