Sort-of both! Detailed information is available in the setting section of his app, but in a nutshell Necromancy in his canon is a religion as well as a magic, and their ultimate goal is to 'rescue' humanity from death by making everyone immortal ... by using a method which requires the sacrificial murder of half the planet. Most Necromancers claim it's 'saving' humanity, but in reality most of them are just selfish bastards too scared of death to face it.
Solomon is eccentric because he actually does believe it would save humanity, and he's more self-sacrificing than most Necromancers are. He's basically a jerk with a heart of gold--he means well, but he's been brainwashed. He's smart enough to snap out of it if he wants to, but he doesn't want to, because that means facing the truth about what he's been doing wrong his whole life. So he keeps compounding the issue by shoving aside pesky morality feelings.
That being said he's reached a point in Tushan where he's realised he doesn't have the stones to go through with the whole mass-murder thing, but he's flatly denying it in the interim.
... It's a long nutshell, but I swear it's the nutshell. <.< >.>
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Sort-of both! Detailed information is available in the setting section of his app, but in a nutshell Necromancy in his canon is a religion as well as a magic, and their ultimate goal is to 'rescue' humanity from death by making everyone immortal ... by using a method which requires the sacrificial murder of half the planet. Most Necromancers claim it's 'saving' humanity, but in reality most of them are just selfish bastards too scared of death to face it.
Solomon is eccentric because he actually does believe it would save humanity, and he's more self-sacrificing than most Necromancers are. He's basically a jerk with a heart of gold--he means well, but he's been brainwashed. He's smart enough to snap out of it if he wants to, but he doesn't want to, because that means facing the truth about what he's been doing wrong his whole life. So he keeps compounding the issue by shoving aside pesky morality feelings.
That being said he's reached a point in Tushan where he's realised he doesn't have the stones to go through with the whole mass-murder thing, but he's flatly denying it in the interim.
... It's a long nutshell, but I swear it's the nutshell. <.< >.>