Lytcher
A lytcher is a person often in the employ of a necromancer who digs up recently buried bodies for the purposes of the same necromancer's dark magic and studies. The practice of a lytcher is known as lytchery or sometimes as lytching. It is a felony in most jurisdictions and typically subject to the death penalty. Some social activists claim lytchery is quietly condoned in some countries due to corrupt officials, with the bodies of mendicants or criminals who are executed or die in prison without any family to claim their bodies.
Lytchlooter
A more specific kind of lytcher, a lytchlooter is one, sometimes employed as part of a commercial enterprise, who recovers the bodies of the slain after a battle or disaster for the purpose of necromancy either for himself or more often for a necromancer who may reward him. The practice is forbidden in numerous treaties, but has been documented even in the present century. Historically, criminal organizations or certain shadier priestly orders would recover the bodies of the slain in battle under cover of darkness, especially if the battle took place in the evening or at night. The matter is further complicated by the recovery of bodies for conventional medical uses, specifically dissection for anatomical instruction.
There are several types of magic and prayers purported to protect the deceased from reanimation. Some deities offer their devotees and supplicants protection to the dead against reanimation, such as Isfalath and Nebhnera.
Necrochus
A necrochus, a special kind of undead under the control of a necromancer, retrieves the bodies of the dead for his master.
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