what title would you give my npc's position?

**Tetrasodium** · 2013-11-05, 08:13 PM (ISO 8601)

Take the following hypotheticals about my npc & help me come up with a good name for his position's title please?

criminals who would normally be sentenced to death are more likely to be sentenced to undeath as a mindless ghoul under a necromancer type's control
terminally ill & others with no hope might occasionally sign up for a screening process that results in promising candadites being selected to become a ghoul in exchange for a large amount of money to leave behind for whatever reason.
this npc is employed by the government (standard medieval king/duke/earl/etc type things) with a prestigious position tasked with performing the screening, conversion of selected living into to undead creatures like mindless ghouls, & ensuring that the crown/military owned ghouls & tending to their needs through legal means (i.e. necromantically treated pig/cow meat/blood)

What would you call this guy's position title? stable-master, or whatever the rookery equivalent is feels similar to the position, but this feels different than any old stablemaster & should probably allude to some sort of semi-nobility title feeling

**Macrovore** · 2013-11-05, 08:17 PM (ISO 8601)

I would go with something bureaucratic and noble, like the Minister of Undeath, or the Minister of Necromancy.

**Ravens_cry** · 2013-11-05, 08:18 PM (ISO 8601)

Overseer.
Seneschal.
Steward.
Judge.

**GoblinArchmage** · 2013-11-05, 08:21 PM (ISO 8601)

Public Necromancer, perhaps.

**Ravens_cry** · 2013-11-05, 08:29 PM (ISO 8601)

Minister for the Reverently Returned*
*As opposed to the dearly departed; the dead-dead.

**Anxe** · 2013-11-05, 08:32 PM (ISO 8601)

Undertaker? Coroner? Mortician?

I liked the Minister titles. Minister of Death? Minister of Ghouls?

**Kaveman26** · 2013-11-05, 08:39 PM (ISO 8601)

Keeper of the eternal peace?

After-Life Coach?

**Rama** · 2013-11-05, 08:47 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Ravens_cry

Minister for the Reverently Returned*
*As opposed to the dearly departed; the dead-dead.

I love this one and may have to steal it for my campaign.

**TuggyNE** · 2013-11-05, 09:25 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Kaveman26

Keeper of the eternal peace?

Extremely disturbing, but probably a very good title for that bit of cognitive dissonance.

**Kane0** · 2013-11-05, 10:01 PM (ISO 8601)

Keeper acolyte?
Renewer?
Reckoner?

Edit: Seneschal sounds good.

**Tetrasodium** · 2013-11-05, 10:17 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Kane0

Keeper acolyte?
Renewer?
Reckoner?

Edit: Seneschal sounds good.

Hmm, I'm thinking "Lord Keeper so & so" might work well.

**KillianHawkeye** · 2013-11-05, 11:07 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by GoblinArchmage

Public Necromancer, perhaps.

I'm thinking Royal Necromancer myself.

**dps** · 2013-11-05, 11:14 PM (ISO 8601)

Minister of Reckoning.

**ryu** · 2013-11-06, 12:39 AM (ISO 8601)

Necromantic Recruiter? You did say he was basically in charge of offering the deals or otherwise picking who was to be raised.

**WeLoveFireballs** · 2013-11-06, 12:53 AM (ISO 8601)

Pontiff of Blight
Blood Scrivener
Last Confessor
Envoy of Ghosts
Patriarch of Bones
Autarch of Unlife
Deathpact Seneshal
Minister of Exhumation

The Orzhov guild in M:TG does exactly this. I mixed and matched a few good keywords.

**Slipperychicken** · 2013-11-06, 01:00 AM (ISO 8601)

Death Warden?

**Berenger** · 2013-11-06, 04:32 AM (ISO 8601)

Conservator.

**SassyQuatch** · 2013-11-06, 04:58 AM (ISO 8601)

You call him the (Evil) Ash and the ghouls are referred to as Deadites.

**Brookshw** · 2013-11-06, 05:50 AM (ISO 8601)

Director - Department of Necromantic Affairs

**mig el pig** · 2013-11-06, 08:17 AM (ISO 8601)

- Mortiärch
- Teuts-Diaken
- Cadavrinal
- Counter of the Corpsecrop

**Tylorious** · 2013-11-06, 08:23 AM (ISO 8601)

Eternal Sentancer
Hell's Liason
Afterlife Liason
Silent Plague

**SethoMarkus** · 2013-11-06, 08:56 AM (ISO 8601)

Royal Re-animator

**lytokk** · 2013-11-06, 09:28 AM (ISO 8601)

Director and Advocate of Necromantic Groups (or DANG for short)

**Jay R** · 2013-11-06, 10:22 AM (ISO 8601)

The job involves putting prisoners to death, making judgments for the ruler, and using unnatural and evil powers to defile corpses in ways that are an abomination to men and gods.

The traditional title is "Vizier".

**TheStranger** · 2013-11-06, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)

Hmm... responsible for turning people into soulless drudges, and the people go along with it because it's marginally better than the alternative?

Director of Human Resources?

Edit: While I meant that as a joke, it has a disturbingly literal quality that I kind of like. I think I would actually use it if it were my game.

**lytokk** · 2013-11-06, 11:56 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by TheStranger

Hmm... responsible for turning people into soulless drudges, and the people go along with it because it's marginally better than the alternative?

Director of Human Resources?

Edit: While I meant that as a joke, it has a disturbingly literal quality that I kind of like. I think I would actually use it if it were my game.

I can't like this enough. It fits the whole idea.

**nedz** · 2013-11-06, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)

Guardian of the Royal Ghoul

Keeper of the Royal Cadavers

Companion of the Grave

**TheStranger** · 2013-11-06, 12:41 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by lytokk

I can't like this enough. It fits the whole idea.

Glad somebody likes it. As an added bonus, trials would be hilarious:

Judge: "I hereby find you guilty of arson, murder, and jaywalking. The law allows only one penalty for these crimes. The defendant is sentenced to report to the Director of Human Resources at noon tomorrow."

**Ravens_cry** · 2013-11-06, 12:54 PM (ISO 8601)

One trouble is it feels a little too Dilbert, which doesn't fit with the mediaeval-esque aspect.
The Warden of the Returned, Returned being a euphemism for the undead.

**Slipperychicken** · 2013-11-06, 01:01 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Ravens_cry

One trouble is it feels a little too Dilbert, which doesn't fit with the mediaeval-esque aspect.
The Warden of the Returned, Returned being a euphemism for the undead.

It can work as a gag. Like you search for the evil reanimator and find some tired-looking nerd in a black robe sittjng behind a desk in an office labeled "Director of Once-Human Resources", who tries to direct your complaints to customer service.

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