Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht, born on this day in 1871, was a German socialist politician and theorist. Originally associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Liebknecht later became a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of both the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Liebknecht is also known for his outspoken opposition to World War I.
The son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the SPD, Karl Liebknecht trained to be a lawyer and defended many Social Democrats in political trials. He was also a leading figure in the socialist youth movement and thus became a leading figure in the struggle against militarism.
As a deputy in the Reichstag he was one of the first SPD representatives to break party discipline and vote against war credits in December 1914. He became a figurehead for the struggle against the war. His opposition was so successful that his parliamentary immunity was removed and he was improsoned.
Freed by the November revolution he immediately threw himself into the struggle and became with Rosa Luxemburg one of the founders of the new Communist Party (KPD)
In January 1919, the Spartacus League played a leading role in the Spartacist Uprising, a general strike and armed rebellion in Berlin. The uprising was crushed by the SPD government and the Freikorps (paramilitary units composed of World War I veterans). For their role in the uprising, Liebknecht and Luxemburg were both kidnapped, tortured, and murdered on January 15th, 1919.
Their contributions to European socialism are commemorated annually in Germany during the second weekend of January, an event known as the Liebknecht-Luxemburg Demonstration, or "LL-Demo" for short.
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Questions my longtime dnd playing co worker couldn't answer:
Do viruses and bacteria exist or is all disease magic based. If they do, is germ theory known?
Are kobolds or other lizardmen cold blooded?
If a wizard can't take a nap during the day to reset spell slots, is magic based on when it gets dark and if so what about wizards who work the night shift?
In addition, isn't a necromancer just a cleric who didn't git gud? A cleric can make a dead person come all the way back, I'm not really sure how necromancy works biologically because it seems to keep them in the state of decay they were necro'd in, so if someone just died, it seems like they should be immortal and otherwise pretty normal save maybe an axe wound or whatever caused the death. Also apparently possession is also a thing nedeomancers do, which strikes me as a whole different field of study.
A necromancer is a type of magic user who specializes in those spells which are not socially normative. They are a threat to the forces of so-called Good because they are a threat to the clerics' monopoly on the use of resurrection magic.
Necromancy is different than healing/raising. The necromancer taps the latent magic of the dead to fuel unnatural movement. A zombie doesn't have a consciousness but the magic that moves the corpse is fed by the soul that once lived in it. Tapping into the soul and cutting off the consciousness for possession is along the same lines.
This magic is shunned because it drains the souls of the dead who are supposed to have moved on to their life in the astral planes and by denying them their existance in the next life the necromancer is stealing directly from the gods the only thing they care about.
Clerics only power comes from their reputation with their god. They don't really have any magical ability they can only ask favors.
Seems like they could get the soul all the way back if they worked on it.
Why would you want your undead servants to have free will?
Cause maybe you don't want servants and just wanna revive the dead cause it's a nice.thing to do. People were hyped.whem Jesus did it.
Yeah but if they don't repair the body with healing magic (which is supplied by the gods who their magic is affronting) the soul has nowhere to go.
How about normal ass medicine?
Normal medicine doesn't fix a body it only allows it to fix itself. if the body is damaged enough to let the soul out its not gonna fix itself with normal medicine.
Have you heard of surgery? Stitch up a dude and transfuse some blood and in some cases you could pop a soul back
Viruses and bacteria do exist but because magic offers effective treatment without being aware of them germ theory was never developed.
Kobolds are more closely related to dragons than lizards and are warmblooded. More research is needed on other lizardmen.
Wizards must rest for at least 8 uninterrupted hours to reset spell slots, it'd be a very long nap.
Could wizards get some spells back from a nap but not all?
Also, I wanna talk polymorphing. Could someone polymorph a necromance'd body to a normal guy?
No, it's all or nothing. And the perception that necromantically raised people are necessarily more rotten than clerically raised people is nothing but "Good" alignment propaganda.
How about a dog? If I were a necromancer who also knew my way around some polymorphing, could I go around digging up graves, reviving the dead and then turning them into dogs? Cause I'd play the hell out of thst character.
You'd probably need to cross class or have an accomplice to use both raise dead and polymorph
But would it be like a normal dog but with the dead person's soul in it?
No, it would be the dead person but in the shape of a dog
How is thar distinct from what I said?
I imagine a reincarnated person would behave markedly differently than a normal dog
I was told they have dog level intelligence tho
anti-necromancer propaganda
What if say, you were a Buddhist necromancer who learned some polymorphing so you could control reincarnation?
A lich by any other name
Naw, he raises the undead and then polymorphs them into a frog or a parakeet or whatever
No, but you could True Polymorph a dying person into a race/creature that can resurrect after dying.