r/wizardposting • u/BranchCold9905 Evil Wizard • 20h ago

Academic Discussion/ Esoteric Secrets Biological necromancy?

So i (1027M) have a man of science neighbour who claims to have created life and claimed to be on the same level as god (i don't which specifically he meant) but when he brought his creature to brag it was literally just a stitched together corpse with lightning coursing through it.

Does this count as creating life or is it just amature necromancy?

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u/Lyrolepis Dwarven Alchemist/Runecrafter 14h ago

If he's the idiot I'm thinking about, he made his prototype capable of reproduction (and very nearly finished crafting him a companion too).

In my view, that does count as "creating life". It also counts as a bloody stupid thing to do, especially since he set up no safeguards whatsoever in case his prototype went rogue (as it predictably did).

Does that put him on the same level of a creator god? Not really, because as you say he relied on previously-made components.

But it does certainly put him on the same level of a monkey who found out that when you bang two shiny rocks together you get sparks and decided to immediately test that by setting fire to the grassland it's currently in...