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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/38477
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I have an interesting plot ready, although there are a few missing blocks which I cannot develop.

Story:

A girl is a daughter of a druid. Druids are humans who live in the forest protecting animals and nature. They sometimes help humans but try to stay away from them, because humans destroy nature and animals. There is another class of exceptional humans - necromancers. There are two essences in this world built-in into ours - the essence of life and the essence of death.

The idea is that the girl druid starts to understand and love the essence of death as well as the essence of life, she is unique, but no one among the druids understands her. She find a few scrolls of necromancy and starts searching for the book of necromancy to learn the arts.

Meanwhile necromancers and druids are at war with each other, and only she can return balance to the world and stop this war.

**The thing that I can't develop is, how to explain her raising love for the dead while loving the living. Why this certain child is connected with both life and death and why she is to bring peace to the conflict.**

I mean, I have a scene where she ventures into the forest one day and sees a dead rabbit 50% fleshless. There's no way to help it, but she is studying necromancy from some scrolls she found and learns to raise the dead. So she raises this dead rabbit. It's corpse, entirely fleshless, returns to life and she plays with it, strokes it's bones and speaks to it like to a living rabbit, the fleshless body doesn't scare her, nor does she dislike the idea. The dead rabbit joins the living ones, and they play, it then becomes her pet and she takes it with her onward.

This girl doesn't support necromancy in the way necromancers do, but she honors the dead as much as the living and in the end learns both about the essence of life and the essence of death.

If something else is important to get a good answer, feel free to ask.

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