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Ars Falcis is unique among necromancy and occultism sites not as much for its content as for its presentation and philosophy. Many people will come to the site expecting to receive a hand-guided tour of the art of necromancy and step-by-step instruction on how to begin in the art as well as suggestions and compendiums to lead them along the way. This may be what one gleans from the text but it can be said most certainly that this is not the intention of the site or its information. It can not even be said that this is an improper assumption for the aspiring necrolyte but it is fallacious to believe that this will be the design that was in mind during the creation of the Ars Falcis. Ars Falcis is a presentation of information regarding or pertaining to the necromantic arts in many of its varied forms throughout time (including modern practice). Less effort will be devoted to directly describing to the reader what is and is not true about the art of necromancy, with some obvious exceptions like the Necromantic Fallacies page, and more effort will be devoted to giving a solid overview of the art and to grounding the disciple in the conventions and history of necromancy. Spellcrafting is the ultimate aim of this site and educating those that wish to delve into the secrets of necromancy but some of the knowledge that is taken away from these pages will not be applicable to every practitioner. It is still, now and forever, the needs of the individual that will define their practice. The Ars Falcis is a compilation of techniques and historical tidbits that may prove valuable to the practitioner but will never completely suffice as a replacement for discernment on the part of the individual. Necromancy itself draws a sparse crowd to begin with and to further compound the problem there is very little information available on the internet, or indeed even in print, about the use of the traditional or modern use of real necromancy. Due to the being introduced to an art awash in information extracted from such sources as Vampire: The Masquerade, Warcraft, Hexen II, Diablo II, and Dungeons and Dragons, the true necromancer is often reduced to becoming a proselyte of voodoo or Egyptian mysticism to grasp for any kind of real knowledge. The goal of Ars Falcis is to create an informational system for necromancers to hearken unto and advance their knowledge and skill in the necromantic arts. Ars Falcis is not designed as a set of dictums. It is a compilation of information about the art of necromancy that tends to be true or has been seen to be true by ancient and modern necromancers that may help the seeker. This site is by no means exhaustive nor should it be construed as an attempt to create an exhaustive compendium of necromantic information. Any variety of techniques and information can be extracted and modified as necessary for use by the individual, which is much of the beauty of necromancy. It still essentially deals with humans and human nature, albeit with dead humans. Ars Falcis is merely an orderly structure to help the reader grasp the mechanics, theories, and operations of necromancy both past and present. Together with a bit of discernment and experimentation on behalf of the practitioner it may construe a definitive system but is not explicitly designed to be the complete codex of necromancy at this stage. New information is very likely to continue appearing as time, public interest, and desire for more information becomes apparent. Feel free to request more information on a specific aspect of necromancy if you wish to see it become part of the page series and it certainly will be given consideration. Many things are admittedly lost in translations, and moreover there is a limited amount of information available to any one person who attempts to write such a compilation. Varying experiences of necromancers will come into play at some level and perhaps what one practitioner sees as vital and integral to the art another will see as ephemeral chicanery. The site attempts to not make such judgement calls though there is never any given source of information that is perfectly unbiased given the nature of human thought processing and the mechanics of written language. About the layout and design of the site itself: Ars Falcis was written from scratch using notepad.exe in Windows XP Pro and was designed for display using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. It has also been tested using the Opera and Mozilla browser and showed no significant changes aside from the divider bars appearing silver rather than maroon. The site is currently hosted by Brinkster, which is not as ideal as it once was but remains functional for the moment. The formatting is simple HTML and the style has been fine-tuned using CSS. Tables are used frequently on this site, against my better judgement, because they are easy to centre on the display. The drawback is that tables must completely load before displaying their data so larger pages such as the Spellbook page may take a moment to load if you are using a slower connection. Please be patient as these load. To the best of my knowledge, all links are functional. The language used is Canadian English. Hopefully this site is informative as well as enjoyable for those that have found it. Once again, please note that many pages -- and specifically the spellbook page -- may take a moment to load given the formatting that has been used to make the site display in its current manner. If you like this site, please consider adding it to a links page on your own site (linking is not the same as copying however; if information is copied it becomes unmanageable where it can no longer be properly updated or improved and integrated to become a greater thing; please do not copy). If you do not like the site, I would like to know why. Well-mannered critique, comment, and suggestions are welcomed in equal measure. Thank you to those that made this site possible, as well. Special mentions go to Tempestarii for supporting my endeavour to present this information, to Pythia for rendering the sigils beautifully based on my squiggly mouse-drawn jpeg, to Ross Shannon for creating YourHTMLSource.com, to Leilah Wendell for appreciating the beauty of death, to Pharaon for insightful critique and suggestions, to Daniel Ogden for writing his most excellent and much needed book on this subject, and to you for reading this. Best wishes for the necromantic community.
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