> The Brithini feel even less qualms about Tapping POW then
"Less than none? Chaos!" The Brithini are amoral, and have never had the slightest qualms about Tapping (POW or otherwise).
> How do Brithini feel about summoning spirits of the dead, then?
Happy enough. The Zzaburi doubtless include necromancy among their arts. They're gathering in a fragment of what was once a person and putting it to good use. (Even if they just render it down into Magic Points, ignoring the "screams" of the non-sentient fragment of vital essence).
> BTW does this mean spirits of dead Malkioni do exist?
We know Malkioni can have ghosts, else why would the main funerary rite be "Blessing and Banishment"? But the latter fact presumably means that a dead Malkioni buried with normal rites can't be summoned back by evil necromancers or concerned relatives -- and, presumably, that orthodox Malkioni wizards don't go meddling with such spirits on moral grounds. (Also, that exorcism is one of their specialities, practiced at the Ancient Pagan Burial Grounds or on unsanctified battlefields or murder sites, frex).
So: Properly buried Malkioni don't have ghosts, and their souls are said to go to Solace after the ritual of Blessing and Banishment. But the Brithini who originated Blessing and Banishment say it's just "spring cleaning" the corpse, brushing away the troublesome psychic fragments created by death. Souls that go to Solace can't be summoned back into the world.
Necromancy is evil in the West (meaning that Brithini, Vadeli and Sorcerers would practice it). All wizards are exorcists, and some presumably specialise in this branch of church ritual. Ghosts are *not* considered to be people, and spirits of the dead are a pagan, heretical or sorcerous thing to be meddling with: "Call the Inquisition! Call the Exorcists!"
All sound good?
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