Talk:Devil Forgemaster/@comment-348642-20181026214108/@comment-1255618-20181106052451

Actually, when Dracula goes to see Hector he explains that Devil Forgemasters can not only revive creatures but put the spirits of "night creatures" (presumably demons) into corpses, turning them into various forms of "night creatures"; Hector even mentions that night creatures were naturally occurring at some point in history due to acts of "wild magic" or reproducing themselves. The Devil Forgemasters also seem to be able to create various forms of zombies like the zombie pets and zombie priest, but they still seem to plenty of biological components and to be created from mostly intact corpses. Necromancers in the games seem to be able to do things like raise skeletons from the earth which don't have any flesh left, whereas we haven't seen any of the Devil Forgemasters manage that sort of feat. As Hector says to Godbrand "You really don't understand the act of forging.  He's not dead.  We make life from death here." This implies that Devil Forging is about creating life from death rather than puppeteering dead, mindless things like a necromancer would; in contrast to a plain ol' skeleton, night creatures seem very much alive.