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What the necromancers of the Grand Necropolis fail to understand, again and again, is how atrophied death magic is outside Nevarra. Ferelden's mages? Blindly following the old elemental primers! Orlais' mages? Too caught up in politics to risk looking "unseemly." Tevinter's mages? Some decent death magic, hobbled by their obsession with blood. (The Free Marches aren't even worth considering after the disaster in Kirkwall.)
We, Nevarra, have the only mages to specialize in the very art of life and death itself! Yet none of the doddering rulers of our little kingdom has the slightest interest in what we could accomplish.