User blog comment:Jimeee/Elder Scrolls Online: Introduction to the Lore/@comment-4975504-20120827144533/@comment-3138441-20120828105329

To start with, necromancy was never illegal in Cyrrodil. In the fourth era the arcane university banned it from the mage's guild but that's it. Up until the fourth era necromancers could be in the Mage's Guild and university.