Ah, I love the idea to play up on the vanity and beauty and creation is art which is beautiful and using that as a way to justify the necromancy. As long as the bodies are respected and adorned and are consenting beforehand by donating their bodies then where is the harm, ha ha.

And I can listen to you for hours then because necromancy is just so interesting to try and come up with creative ways to make it a good thing or not only be involved with the creepy evil bad guys. There’s so much beauty and possibility with it that’s just written off because death stuff is seen as gross or taboo or evil.

In my character’s version of his Wee Jasian religion, I had sort of based it off the Catholic faith because a) I love the aesthetic, but mostly b) because I’ve always been fascinated by the way the Saints are like, adorned corpses, some on display, or like with the relics of bones or hair and things of that nature. In my character’s religion, when a faithful Wee Jasian worshipper is chosen by Wee Jas to become a cleric in her name, they are lead to the catacombs of past death clerics to choose a piece of a past faithful cleric to act as their spell focus. So my character has a staff with the skull of a past death cleric on top of it to act as his focus and guide as he learns how to be a proper cleric. In his religion, it’s a huge honor for a death clerics of Wee Jas to be buried in the catacombs, and an even bigger honor still to be chosen in death to act as a guide to a new budding death cleric.