Answering Filth Pig's Questions

 

Answering the setting questions found over at The Slopyard. Answering these questions for Aclas. 

1. Is there Blood Magic? Necromancy? Can I start off with these powers or do I have to get them d-d-d-diegetically? Will these things get me hanged/drawn, quartered and burned over water/tortured/burned at the stake? Is your Necromancer working off the "divination from the dead" definition or is it cool?

There's absolutely both Blood Magic and Necromancy! You can definitely start with them, yeah. They're considered 'Red Magic', so the reaction varies. 

On the one hand, performing necromantic acts in the former Union or the great old states of Etra will see you in front of a firing squad (should they catch you) - but in Cantos, necromancy is accepted, and all of the government leaders are necromancers.

So called 'Blue Necromancy' is the divination from the dead/speak with dead kind, you can learn it at acceptable wizard institutions across the world. 

'Red Necromancy' is the kind everyone thinks of. The other 90% of the school is that. 

All of it's just fragments of the greater lost art of Biomancy, but don't tell anyone. 

2. Will my limbs get hacked off? Can I get new limbs? Do they have to be human or can I have monster parts? Is there a class that does all this or is it just an NPC?

Yes, Yes, Yes and There Isn't a Class Yet. 

3. When was the last plague in the setting and how soon can we expect the next one? Can we swindle people by selling fake plague cures? 

Disease outbreaks happen all the time, but the last Really Big Plague was Constellar Fever, about 47 years ago. The infected ended up with magic-charged rashes with little glowing points of burning magic in them that looked like constellations. Some say the rashes were heretic spell-diagrams, if read correctly. 

You can swindle people in all manner of ways, this is no exception.  

4. Cannibalism gives you: A) Kuru, B) Magical Powers, C) Full stomach, D) Yet Another Unexpected Twist ?

In order: C, A, B, D. 

It's a matter of commitment. 

You get full, then sick, then you die and become a ghoul, then you become a ghast, then you become a devourer, then you eventually bloat like a drowned pig and metamorphose into something really, really horrible. 

5. What's can't I do that isn't super obvious?

Huh. Good question. There's no flying or resurrection spells in the setting, does that count?