Who is your necromantic role model? Who is your favourite modern necromancer?
I’d like to think that I’m a good role model for myself. 17th century me in particular has been one of my biggest influences. However, if you’d like for me to select from a list of “modern” necromancers, I’d say my role model is Professor Egon Spengler.
His ability to delve into the hard science of the supernatural and mix it with his understanding of arcane sorcery is impressive enough, but his ability to function as the head of a small business and pillar of the local community is what sets him above the rest.
While he wears a flesh mask to pass for human, the shape of his skull is often visible just beneath the thin veil of mortality. The frames of his glasses help disguise the outline of his pitted eye sockets, but his glamour is the least convincing of his sorceries. He augments this by posing as a professional exorcist, allowing him and his so-called “ghostbusters” access to the undead and keeping them above suspicion at all times.
Wears a white robe cleverly disguised as a lab coat.
Admirable traits about the Dread Lord Spengler:
Uses strange artefacts (the so-called PKE meter) to gaze into spirit world
Demonstrated dominion over shades, spectres, poltergeists, etc. which he keeps in stockpiles in his lair for future experimentation
Befriends creatures of the netherplane, not least of which Slimer, but also noted daemon Bill Murray
Dabbles in fields of science and metaphysics beyond mortal ken, without fear of harming broad swathes of the local mortal population
Maintains an impressive fortress, fortified in the centre of a city gripped by constant supernatural panic
Drives a dread conveyance fuelled by the shrieking the souls of the damned
Followed into supernatural confrontation by loyal army of human thralls, risking their lives at his smallest request
