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Necromancy is usually portrayed as a taboo or black art. But Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy imagined a world where the undead are a constant hazard due to a thin boundary between our world and the afterlife, and thus necromancy became a common, and even culturally important cultural magic in order to keep them in check.
If you were writing a story that subverted the norm of "necromancy as a taboo", what would you do? Would you make the world itself function so that necromancy became a naturalised part of it, as with the Abhorsen series? Or would you change the way necromancy functions, so that there is less cultural taboo about descration of the dead? Maybe something else?
Prompt: write a day in the life of a necromancer who is a normal part of their world.
If you were writing a story that subverted the norm of "necromancy as a taboo", what would you do? Would you make the world itself function so that necromancy became a naturalised part of it, as with the Abhorsen series? Or would you change the way necromancy functions, so that there is less cultural taboo about descration of the dead? Maybe something else?
Prompt: write a day in the life of a necromancer who is a normal part of their world.