1. Marksaline the Necromorph Queen

Black Marker Necromancer cult and it's unfortunately fortune beginning 3 / 7

The Necromancer population of the City had all they needed.
Shelter from weather, prepared fields to make harvesting produce for food, currency to trade, defensiv armor for personal use. The Spiders would return in about a decade. Until than they had to make this City a success. Trading needed to be established and they would have to over produce or services to others that would pay for it to keep the City alive.

The food in their City would be good until the Harvest time would come around, if they ration it.

Everyone would focus on the fields and it's needs.

The others needed to make something out of themself. Time to apply the knowledge they have study the most, Necromancy.

Necromancy could affect dead biological material of different kinds. Body's of sapient or sentient beings. But also dead plants! One of the Necromancer families focused toward Timberwolf's. If they didn't feed regulary than they would started to decay. Giving the usual Timberwolf smell.

In theory would fruits and other produce be affected by Necromancy since they are in a state of gradual decay. Just like a dying or dead body / structure.

That knowledge open the view of many Necromancer minds, since it showed that something don't need to be dead to be effected by Necromancy. Since Necromancy don't need dead body's, but rather dying material and could effect the overall structure, would it change pretty mutch the fundamental idea of Necromancy and it's use of application. What about other magical path for water for instance. Blood magic is water magic used with Necromancy or dark / healing magic in general.

That just changed perhaps the future of Necromancy overall.

So far everycreature outside their cult knowlege was that Necromancy needed deceased individuals. By simply educating the general mass about that it being incorrect, might the mighty Sun Goddess Celestia herself be forced to listen.

After all, what is a leader without it followers? What is a King without a Kingdom?
What it a Goddess without belivers?
There is strength in the individual, but there is also strength in the group.

One individual can do something.
A group of individuals should be able to do anything within reason.

The magic always in demand are the one benefiting the individual or the group as a hole.
For example would magic that clean food and water from dirt up to poisens always be needed. Than there was medical use of magic. That of body and mind. Healing is basicly manipulation of the living tissue of the body. If Necromancy effected dead or dying tissue, than why not combine them? Perhaps a medical facility made out of healing, water / blood mages and Necromancer's might be the best in delivering results.

Until that target was archived, would Necropolis and it's population keep it head down. The sun goddess Celestia was known for almost gleefully public executing the wealder's of knowlege of the dark arts. No matter if old, adult or underage.

Than again she was also known to be very pragmatic! She used to hate blood mages, but ones they keep soldier on the battlefield alive and help survive the aftermath of violent conflict's, did Celestia stopped chopping unicorns horn off left and right if a affinity for it was found. Before they proved to be worth showing how hypocritic she could be, if it supported her goals enough.

A leader putting the needs of it's population over their own personal beliefe's within reason, was a leader that stayed in power.

After all, as is writen in the 'Holy Scribt of the Harmony' belief:

Only in Harmony can we move forward.
Only with Harmony can our goals be archived.
Only by Harmony's guidance is a future possible.
Only trough the Harmonic magic within us all, can Equus prosperity be secured.
Praise the Creator-s and the Harmony them bring us all!

The first year was focused on assigned the individual to a task. If a task had multible individual, than a group was formed. For example for food production, research of practical and theoretical knowlege and not to forget in finding ways to combine Necromancy with other magical schools.

Than they needed to fix the Spiders oversite. After checking the City building individual, did the population of Necropolis made a shocking discovery. The City was still under construction!

The City so far had only population Shelter! There was not a singel building to support trade or Blacksmith's. No Hospitals or even a Guard tower for observations.

When the City Guard's where ask, did they confirm that this City was to be build in stages.
The Spiders tolerated the current 'not Guard or soldier' presents and in their generous and kind nature helped them as long they had time for it.

Now with them 'sleeping / resting' they would have to bridge the time of the Spiders return. The next stage of Necropolis would bring Hospitals, Blacksmiths workshops and many other structures. But until than it was on the population to decide to abandoned the City and forfit their right to life in it or to prove themself worth to stay.

The City name Necropolis was also incorrect, but if the population would not decrease under 20.000 buildings in intended use, would the Spiders consider 'the original name' as void and let this City be known as 'Necropolis'.

When the Necromancer ask of 'the original name', did they all smiled and left the question unanswered.

Eather they don't know it and played coy to hide it, or it was some kind of inside joke.

Anyway...

After a year did the population of Necropolis made due with what they had. Occational did some hundred individual take some of the Spider made currency and than ask Traveling Merchant if they be willing to travel to the newest founded City.

5 Traveller made the Journey. After they left the city as to spread the glory and riches of Necropolis and it's literally jewelry decrated STREETS, did Merchant of all races come to the richest City in all of Equestria.

When Celestia herself showed up to see what was inside Equestrias borders founded, did she was impressed. She wanted to know how a small population of only a few ten of thousand of mixed races population created a Pyradmid, a Sea and a City in neck breaking speed without anyone noticing, but everycreature refused to tell her the secrets of trade.

Celestia respected it with a smirk and only reminded them that they had build their city on her Nation.

To Celestias misfortune was the City actually Griffon Territory, but not claimed for Centuries. There for by legal law at the time, not hers in any way. Necropolis was questionable free to everycreature if it don't pose a threat to the Griffon Empire.

Celestia left shortly after and returned half a year later with Griffon royalty to ask who Necropolis would swear fealty to. The ~~Necromancer cult~~ population declared themself independent and open to negotiation for trading.

To everypony and non pony surprised did Equestria and Griffonia declared Necropolis as a neutral trading City state, with borders under negotiation to be determinded within the next two centuries.

Everyone know Celestias tactic to outlast her opposition and buy their favor. Yet all factions agreed anyway. In general was it literally a win - win situation for everycreature involved.

By the end of the second year was a tent village of Merchant's camping outside the City.
The most successfully would receive a invitation in two years time to be offical members of the City.

5 years after the big Spiders left, did almost every trader receive a invitation to stay in the City as offical acknowleged citizen with citizenshipment.

They were informed that in 5 years time would a
' magic ritual ' be performed to summon a spider workforce to expand on the city limits. They are to be ignored at worst or treated as royalty at best, that don't talk to anycreature...

The pony sized Spiders in the city where representatives and had a running contract with the City defense force and the population of Necropolis.

8 years are past since the big Spiders left. The City was one of the richest trading hub between Griffonia and Equestria. Yet they don't let it go to their heads. They stayed surprisingly humble, but firm. Success let favour, but also jelousy grow on the surrounding Nations.

Nobility of all Nations tried to buy themself Citizenshipment, but got refused. Only the worthy and hard working or successfully AND humble would find a place in the City.

Half a year before the 9 year did a group of Dragon hear about the City of riches and demanded tribute. They got refused and would have to deal with ritual combat if they wanted the City. No Nation was willing to help them...

Dragon would always be 'not worth the effort'.

To the 50 Dragon surprise, did a huge flying beast was summoned behind the Pyramid by the City's Spider God.

The 50 Dragons got wiped out, no matter how mutch damage they inflicted on the Spider Gods representative.

The Dragon corpses got claimed by the City state and by doing so revealed it's nature as Necromancer City.

Celestia hoovepalmed about not seeing the connection. She double hoovepalmed, when the City now owned their personal 50 Dragon strong undead army she coherced attacking the City for a fortune in Gems and Gold, paying in advance...

She face crashed her desk in two pieces, when the Dragonlord demand compensation for costing him 20 building sized Dragon's and 30 Dragon elders the sized of 5 level building's.

Their weight worth in Gold.

Celestia send Cadance out to get negotiation underway. Cadance come with a scroll that ask them if they posed a threat to Equestria.
There response in a big scroll was:

"Are you?"

Celestia throne room needed new tapestry for her throne room after that message.

Celestia ask them politely to watch their words and chose them carefully.

Also if they would have her coming to the City as ally or enemy.

The City counsel prepared the biggest and longest officaly used scroll's used for completed treatys normaly.

The Blue one was for the first part, the red one about the second part of her scroll.

When Cadance delivered the Scrolls with pride could Celestia not be more proud.

She summon her entire Nobel class to show her success off.

Under the eyes of everypony was both scroll seals be cracked open and their interior revealed.

The blue one wrote:

"Ok..."

The red one wrote:

"Neither!"

Celestia right hoove mare Raven Inkwell needed to regrow her mane, when Celestia burst out in flames that day.

Author's Note

Bloody 'edit button' is right next to the 'publish button'. Guess what happend to a edit button smaller than my pointing finger and a release button without space in between and about five times the size of the edit button.

If you guessed right you get a thumbs up from me.

If wrong... Than take a stiff drink and think about you'r decision looong and hard...

As always -
Stay Snuggly

Last time edited:
14.04.2024