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I follow no set religion, But I have a great respect for Mother Nature. But I also love death, and things dealing with spirits and the dead. I have certain abilities that allow me to communicate and perform certain rituals dealing with them. What does that make me?

I was raised by a shaman and a witch.

Theoretically I inherited some sort of shamanic power by being the eldest, my father left before teaching me much though. Indoctrinated me in christianity a little bit and never got into the shamanic side of things other than to tell me I had powers, including visions. I think it must take a great deal of training for this to be of any use though. I'll have visions or write some incomprehensible poem that I find out months or even years later perfectly predicted an event I would rather have avoided, but I hadn't understood the warning.

My mother raised us first on Atheism, then on Wicca and now she has gone back to Atheism, despite her travels to the Astral plane. I believe her to have strong mental powers, including a kind of remote viewing and mild mind-reading abilities probably empathy more than actual mind-reading, which for some reason don't work on me.

Aaaggh. in any case my point originally was, my mother was Wiccan, my father a Shaman, and one of my closest friends is a Necromancer. Some things I am sworn not to reveal, other than that he usually sounds a lot like Iron_Felix, except that he holds a different position in the army.

So...Any questions about Shamanism or Wicca, I'd be happy to answer, and to recommend sources. Don't know as much about Necromancy, but I'll answer what I can. What is available anyway.

I'm not sure how much of what I know is fact, and what is legend or fantasy, I try to be discerning, but I don't know everything.

He is the antichrist. Or part of it, there may be more than one. I don't actually have any way of knowing that he is truly the antichrist, but he is far more powerful than I am. He is also a half-demon. The latter two I know are true, the first I have no way of knowing beyond the fact that he was telling the truth about the other two.

Cool, he has led troops before, I'm afraid I can't say much more than that though. He seems to think he plans things though, has a little leatherbound book of plans concerning dominating the world. Perhaps that was one of the things Torir kept from him, that he doesn't actually do the planning. Based on what he's said to me about plans it's probably a good thing that that's not his job. lol

Well, he thinks he is The Antichrist. He fits a many of the accepted descriptions, but until now I hadn't heard anything specific about the battle from anyone but him.
And he likes me, so it is believable that he would overstate his position.
The role you have described sounds more fitting for him though, he is good at following orders and often gets after me for my lack of ability to do the same.

There are many different ways to invoke the magics, but it all depends on who you learn from, as well as where you learn them. Second-hand knawlage is not always the best to use, but it is good to show greater understanding. Just refrane from crossing lines, boundries that shouldn't be crossed should be left alone... even if it seems they are simple to cross.
Thoughts race through my own mind as I try to find
what I should do, how my restrate is waning...
every part of us is scrambling.

Well, that's good then. He doesn't like working with a unit anymore, it is something he's only just maybe going to be willing to do again. I don't think that he knows anyone else's names, until I introduced him, he hadn't even met his anima, I grew up with my animus. He knows only the name of his demon half, little else. he kinda lives in his own little world, but he has been preparing for the battle for a long time.

It's possible he is going to fight a different battle. I believe your battle involved the minions of Hell, what is the purpose of it?
He thinks he will fight to take over and eventually destroy the world.
He may be fated for a different battle, one which is as inconsequential to you as yours may be to him.
I'm afraid I must profess ignorance of the details.