This reason rapidly declines the more long lived the species in question is.
Edit: it also basically has to be puppetry otherwise many dead will just choose to do labor if they can. Also that elf prince that just got snuck in the middle of the street is not letting 1000 years just slide.
every fantasy setting with necromancy needs to give me a really good reason why skeletons aren’t being used to automate all labor
Wow so even when I’m dead I can’t escape capitalism
Because of woke. Nobody wants to work anymore, not even skeletons.
Fantasy liberalism. It is. Cheaper to poorly pay a worker than to automate a process with a trained mechanical necromancer
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look at this bourgeois pos over here. slaver. seize the means of ressurection!
probably because their loved ones corpses being puppeted around to make doo-dads and harvest wheat would upset people
that’s why they said skeletons, you flay off all the flesh and give the bones a good bleach and nobody’s recognizing anybody
This reason rapidly declines the more long lived the species in question is.
Edit: it also basically has to be puppetry otherwise many dead will just choose to do labor if they can. Also that elf prince that just got snuck in the middle of the street is not letting 1000 years just slide.
i think Overlord works like this