[Arctic_Slicer]

Thank you for you compliments. I have actually been wanting to write about the dread knight for sometime but never really got around to it. While there hasn't been a whole lot of official information released on this mysterious class I felt that the most important aspect about them has been released the "core" of their class if you will. While it is possible that they might be similar to the necromancer I don't really expect them to be able to call undead servants like a necromancer. The only other thing that has been said by sigil about them is that they are not like the shadow knights of "EverQuest" which really re-enforces the view that they will not be necromancer like. Sigil has made it a point that they don't plan on designing "hybrids" and want each and every class to be unique. Of course that certainally doesn't mean that some classes don't overlap in some areas and flavorwise it would make sense for the dread knight to overlap with the necromancer in some areas.

Necromancers certainally share the same lust for power and will sacrifice everything to obtain it even their health and beauty. By doing so they can gain immorality and have a limitless supply of minions at their command. A necromancer motto could very well be "greatness at any cost". It is also likely that a necromancer will have some debuffing type of abilities but I wouldn't expect those kind of abilities to their classes "core".

While these philosophies are similar to those I applied for the dread knight they are different in some aspects as well. A dread knight has the title "knight" which implies that they have some role in society whether it's a well liked role or not is another matter. It is also possible that they are members of an underground society. It also implies that they may serve some sort of lord. Given their personality however I would expect this service to be more a mercenary contract than a formal knighthood. It might even be a "shadow" knighthood where they exist more or less outside of the ranks of other knights and is a more secretive service. While a dread knight would most certainally prefer to be a lord rather than serving under one. The reality though is that they are not and only by serving existing lords can they increase their fortune and possibly influence that would eventually allow them to seize such power.

I could be wrong of course as all of this is theroy but given what we know it feels right. Necromancy is for all intents and purposes bad for your health. For a necromancer who focuses on summoning the most powerful of minions while sacrificing their own strength it would be a fair trade. For a dread knight however who needs their strength wouldn't risk their good health for their minions especially animated ones. Necromancy really doesn't seem to fit into a dread knights sense of "flavor". It seems natural that a dread knight would be the kind of profession that would need their health and desire their beauty both of which are too valuable to waste on necromancy.