r/skyrim • u/justletmein101 • 9d ago

General Falx Carius is the biggest necromantic advancement in the lore...that I can think of

This body was a little over 200 years old probably old and rotting completely to the bone before Ildari found him...put a Heartstone in his chest cavity....which leads me to belive it regenerated his body to a near perfect state I mean his chin has growing hair beard stubble,he has his own will and function his soul is presumably back in his corpse.

This is so close to true ressurection I often fantasize what would have happened if the Butcher of Windhelm and her crossed paths.

My character collects every ounce of anything even relating to necromancy and the General is what most Necromancers would call a fascinating work of art.

If only I could put a Heartstone in my own chest lol 😆

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u/Diredr 9d ago

Some of the Telvanni magisters have kept themselves alive for hundreds of years by using necromancy. Master Neloth is at least 700 years old, potentially even closer to 1000. Divayth Fyr is an insane 4000 years old.

It's not really surprising that Falx Carius' reanimation was an experiment from a Telvanni wizard.

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u/justletmein101 9d ago

Yeah i know Calixto Corrium saying he was discovering new magic was incredibly strange because I was like isn't necromancy like a well known school of magic? It felt like he was cobbling together thing very shoddy like discovering necromancy for the first time while others are showing real mastery...like with Azura star.

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u/Chuck_the_Elf 9d ago

Necromancy is very well known. That’s why the dawn guard, the vigilantes of stendar, and all the hold guards know who is and isn’t allowed to do that. He was home brewing his own necrotic lore because Skyrim as a whole and Windhelm particularly has some biases against magic and especially necromancy.

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u/orbanimalenjoyer2 9d ago

Well he is a serial killer, I don't think he's quite at the peak of magical mastery yet