The origin of necromancer's summons

Dellarie

So where do those undead minions actually come from? According to tooltip you literally pull them from the ground and the animations suggest the same but I don't think it makes much sense that there is always a skeleton conveniently burried underground no matter where you are. Is it may be explained in more detail in the Elsweyr storyline?

Ghanima_Atreides

The same pocket of Oblivion where you pull your horse out from.

It's basically a gameplay mechanic, because it's not feasible to rely on actual corpses being around when you need them.

Dellarie

Ghanima_Atreides wrote: »

The same pocket of Oblivion where you pull your horse out from.

It's basically a gameplay mechanic, because it's not feasible to rely on actual corpses being around when you need them.

I wish it was implemented better tbh. So it would actually feel like I'm playing a necromancer than ressurects corpses rather then pulls them out of thin air.

Beffagorn

You pull them out from the Soul Cairn or Coldharbour. That's my explanation when there's no body i can resurrect nearby.

adriant1978

Beffagorn wrote: »

You pull them out from the Soul Cairn or Coldharbour. That's my explanation when there's no body i can resurrect nearby.

I like this explanation!

The Soul Cairn, now there's a place we need to revisit sometime ...

Eporem

Dellarie wrote: »

So where do those undead minions actually come from? According to tooltip you literally pull them from the ground and the animations suggest the same but I don't think it makes much sense that there is always a skeleton conveniently burried underground no matter where you are. Is it may be explained in more detail in the Elsweyr storyline?

I like how this might explain it too

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Conjuration

mann9753b16_ESO

I mean, we are at war, so in most areas, people died, and not al of them would have been recovered, so most areas should have some dead bodies lying around.