She is probably trying to keep her tone polite and inoffensive. He gamely pretends that she succeeds in it. He's heard worse, albeit not with any frequency for a long time now, and typically only from people who don't live long after.

"Where I'm from," he echoes, "there is no magic but necromancy. There are those who work more with thalergy— that is the energy of life— than with thanergy, the energy of death. There are still others who work directly with the spirit. All these areas of focus still fall under the umbrella of necromancy.

"Very little is outlawed," he muses. "I've always taken the hands-off approach when it comes to ruling. But some forms of necromancy are plainly more dangerous than others, to the adept or to their subject."