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Because only then can they survive with a partial soul.

Life is either 100% alive or 100% dead. ItsIt's boolean. When normal people become not 100% alive. They, they die.

By performing the ritual and becoming a lich, they are able to travel the grey area in between-between and survive non 100% life force.

They are able to then loanlend part of their life force to the those they animate. This also helps explain some useful limitations:

  • why they can animate an army of low inteligenceintelligence beings for a big fight, or one high intelligence human that passes for alive. But cantcan't get quality and quantity.
  • if they animate too many beings, they're weakened.
  • if they keep animating so much they die, their soul lives on distributed in their spawn. Another necromancer can reunite part of their soul with the body to bring them back.

Because only then can they survive with a partial soul.

Life is either 100% alive or 100% dead. Its boolean. When normal people become not 100% alive. They die.

By performing the ritual and becoming a lich, they are able to travel the grey area in between and survive non 100% life force.

They are able to then loan part of their life force to the those they animate. This also helps explain some useful limitations:

  • why they can animate an army of low inteligence beings for a big fight, or one high intelligence human that passes for alive. But cant get quality and quantity.
  • if they animate too many beings, they're weakened.
  • if they keep animating so much they die, their soul lives on distributed in their spawn. Another necromancer can reunite part of their soul with the body to bring them back.

Because only then can they survive with a partial soul.

Life is either 100% alive or 100% dead. It's boolean. When normal people become not 100% alive, they die.

By performing the ritual and becoming a lich, they are able to travel the grey area in-between and survive non 100% life force.

They are able to then lend part of their life force to those they animate. This also helps explain some useful limitations:

  • why they can animate an army of low intelligence beings for a big fight, or one high intelligence human that passes for alive. But can't get quality and quantity.
  • if they animate too many beings, they're weakened.
  • if they keep animating so much they die, their soul lives on distributed in their spawn. Another necromancer can reunite part of their soul with the body to bring them back.
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Because only then can they survive with a partial soul.

Life is either 100% alive or 100% dead. Its boolean. When normal people become not 100% alive. They die.

By performing the ritual and becoming a lich, they are able to travel the grey area in between and survive non 100% life force.

They are able to then loan part of their life force to the those they animate. This also helps explain some useful limitations:

  • why they can animate an army of low inteligence beings for a big fight, or one high intelligence human that passes for alive. But cant get quality and quantity.
  • if they animate too many beings, they're weakened.
  • if they keep animating so much they die, their soul lives on distributed in their spawn. Another necromancer can reunite part of their soul with the body to bring them back.