Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-11344160-20130802031609/@comment-218.186.253.136-20140119041948

Lol, this discussion seems to be becoming weirder...

I doubt you will summon the souls of the fallen back into their bodies, because you can resurrect the soul trapped and you can't soul trap the resurrected. So its pretty much using pure magic to awaken and control the body by force. Its pretty much the consciousness of the person staying on (as the brain is not degenerated yet) that makes them thank you for freeing them, rather than souls.

Also, since the whole body is resurrected purely based upon the power of magic, it is doubtful that restoration has to repair nerves and muscle, as skeletons can be reanimated easily, so can draugr and stuff. Necromancy is therefore possibly utilizing magic to augment and replace lost/damaged parts, which might also be why the reanimated will disintegrate, as their physical bodies are destroyed by the magic forces that control their bodies, or the magical alteration to them is over, so their molecular form is disrupted.

Necromancy should never be part of conjuration, as it never involves summoning anything from realms beyond. It also can't be restoration as it does not involve control or usage of life energies, whether to repair or revive. I know this sounds weird, but I wouldn't mind it as its own school or alteration

P.s. Destruction as part of alteration? If you go by that principle, all magic might as well be alteration, as they involve using magicka to alter the physical world in any way. In fact, alteration in its most powerful form would be space time manipulation, so its basically godly powers in this case. In fact, the school of Alteration should not exist at all and have a different name - alteration is too generic a name for a school of magic, as everything is alteration to an extent.