First of all, I very much doubt this is up in arms territory here. This is a pretty calm discussion over all, and I am completely okay with the "splash of color" you mentioned. However, magic using death and spirits is still completely different from magic using blood. Both are pretty cool and I am fine with using either, but either way, it currently doesn't really have anything to do death, except from blood loss. Renaming the current class to some form of blood or black magic would fit a bit better.
After all, even in Twilight the vampires still had the strength, immortality and etc. (At least, I'm assuming since I never made it through the first one)
In D:OS2 it's called necromancy even though it has a smaller link to death than from when it was just witchcraft.
The moral of my story is: Changing something, even significantly, is fine. But change it too far and it makes more sense to rename it to remove confusion. (Also this is the suggestions area and I personally would love to see some of these ideas make it to the game in some form or other)
EDIT: It isn't just fantasy that has a huge amount of stereotypes it typically conforms to, everything does. If you bought a phone that never got reception or internet access, you would likely be annoyed if they responded by saying that they were trying to make the phone more unique and asked you to calm down.
Last edited by Atrum Chalybs; 04/04/17 12:27 AM. Reason: Everything follows stereotypes
