Why would a Necromancer even bother with choosing the Way of Rotting Flesh over the Way of Darkness?
Because some Necromancers prefer the gradual but inevitable decay of their mortal shells as they race hellbound unto immortality. The bittersweet perfume of decay is to some more welcome than the sickening putridity of their noisome mortal forms. Some scholars believe that the Way of Darkness is far more powerful than the Way of Rotting Flesh; that becoming a demon is far more advantageous than becoming undead. One could argue, however, that the Way of Rotting Flesh is the easier of the two, and that immortality is far easier to reach within its framework than within the more aggressive Way of Darkness. The progression unto final damnation may well indeed more rapid within the Way of Rotting Flesh, though we must remember that it takes a most demented soul to make the choice of one path over another in the first place. Since demons have the summoning and binding powers of Necromancy, can’t they simply just sit back and summon/bind tons of demons, even demons more powerful than themselv
