Thread: Paleonecromancy
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Old 01-19-2015, 07:53 PM   #7
Johnny1A.2
 
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Default Re: Paleonecromancy

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Originally Posted by The Colonel View Post
A lot would depend on how necromancy/thanaturgy works in your setting - in a lot of cases, it relies on binding the soul of the deceased and is harder to work the longer the body you are trying to animate has been dead. No only would the dinosaur lack a soul (being an animal) it has also been dead for an inordinately long time and the fossil contains little or nothing of its original body. Frankly, a fossil (even assuming a complete skeleton ... which is very rare) comprises so little original material, you might as well treat it as an animated object rather than an undead creature.
To make it the more so, a fossil is no longer made of bone, the bone has more-or-less been replaced by mineralization. That might matter.
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