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A killer snuffs out the [[life]] of another being.  
'''Killers''' are not whole species. Although [[Marikith|marikith]] are known in [[Paridon]] as the ''shadow killers'', they and all fellow generic creatures fail to meet the requirements. Killers are either named individuals or are categories of such individuals, who take one or more lives of at least some note. The swatting of house flies by [[Bryonna]] or the destruction of nests of cockroaches by [[Vermin Killer|vermin killers]] fails to meet the requirements. Lives of at least some note are those of NPCs. The [[God-Brain|Darklord of Bluetspur]] devouring the [[brain]] of [[Marcu Vasilis (Gambler)|Marcu Vasilis]] or [[executioner|executioners]] [[beheading]] individuals condemned to [[:category:Death|death]] for their [[crime|crimes]] meets the requirements. Equally, lives of some note are those of generic creatures which in the circumstances of their deaths pose at least some danger to their killers. [[Old Singe]] poisoning to death the generic crewmen of the [[Sunset Empires]] meets the requirements. [[Assassins]], [[mercenaries]], [[soldiers]], and [[Big Game Hunter|big game hunters]] are likewise killers. Such are the difficulties of an adventurous life that it is all to easy become a killer. Still, adventurers are well advised to avoid becoming [[murderer|murderers]]. Every murderer is a killer, but not every killer is a murderer. It is in fact possible to become a killer yet retain one's [[innocence]].


Depending upon the identity of the killer, of the killed, and of the witnesses, the act of killing may, or may not, constitute a [[crime]]. For example, a [[lumberjack]] might think nothing of killing a tree; the [[state]] would agree with him so long as the tree was his to kill and as long as any consequent taxes were paid; a [[druid]] would agree with neither opinion and would, at a minimum, see any gratuitousness on the part of the lumberjack as a crime.
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Nevertheless, most individuals do not even conceive of those working in forestry or agriculture as being killers. Indeed many individuals fail to conceive of themselves as killers when dealing with [[vermin]]. And what about medical researchers experimenting on [[animals]]? To say nothing of [[mad scientists]] obsessed with stealing the fire of the [[gods]] and creating life . . . .  Did [[Dr. Victor Mordenheim]] think of himself as a killer when he decided to shut off the [[laboratory pump]] that was keeping the [[brain]] of [[Rudolph von Aubrecker]] alive? The threshold beyond which one  becomes a killer in one's own eyes can be elastic in the extreme.
 
And what of those confronting the undead? A creature that has returned from the [[grave]] is not exactly dead and is not exactly alive. It is trapped somewhere in between. One robs precious little from a skeleton in destroying. The same cannot be said of the destruction of vampire. The soul has perhaps long fled the rotted shell of the zombie. But is it gone from the ceribral lich?
 
 
 
 
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not further from life than it is from death. 
 
Is it too convenient to say that life has not returned a creature that has risen from its grave to rejoining the living.
 
One does not snuff out the life of the undead. The individual who has risen from the grave is not alive, the life that fled before he was put in the grave has not returned. 
 
 
 
It is ingenuous to deal the ethical question raised by that decision by of that decision by ma
 
The destruction of the undead is not killinPerhaps only in [[Necropolois]] would it be seriously suggested that the destruction of the [[undead]] is killing. For to survive the grave is not to come back to life and it presupposes that life has been  snuffed out already.

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Killers are not whole species. Although marikith are known in Paridon as the shadow killers, they and all fellow generic creatures fail to meet the requirements. Killers are either named individuals or are categories of such individuals, who take one or more lives of at least some note. The swatting of house flies by Bryonna or the destruction of nests of cockroaches by vermin killers fails to meet the requirements. Lives of at least some note are those of NPCs. The Darklord of Bluetspur devouring the brain of Marcu Vasilis or executioners beheading individuals condemned to death for their crimes meets the requirements. Equally, lives of some note are those of generic creatures which in the circumstances of their deaths pose at least some danger to their killers. Old Singe poisoning to death the generic crewmen of the Sunset Empires meets the requirements. Assassins, mercenaries, soldiers, and big game hunters are likewise killers. Such are the difficulties of an adventurous life that it is all to easy become a killer. Still, adventurers are well advised to avoid becoming murderers. Every murderer is a killer, but not every killer is a murderer. It is in fact possible to become a killer yet retain one's innocence.

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