Lich for Hire - Chapter 192: On the Habits of Druids

To many, holy light was the polar opposite of dark magic. Natural power, by contrast, seemed more tolerant. After all, death was part of nature, and there shouldn't be any real conflict between the two branches of nature and death.

That idea wasn't entirely wrong, but neither was it entirely right.

The problem was that many assumed the concept of death in undead philosophy to be the same as the death understood by druids.

That wasn't the case. To the undead, death represented eternity; to druids, a cycle.

Undead: "Ah, I've died—but now I am immortal. I shall exist forever."

Druid: "No, absolutely not. You need to become nourishment for that which still lives. Kindly die more thoroughly."

Therein lay the contradiction.

Natural power can accept death so long as the dead are willing to become part of the cycle. But it cannot accept dark magic, which exists to disrupt that cycle.

Of course, this was merely the mainstream druidic view, which was not harbored by all druids unifor...