Necromancy in Arcanum

[Crnobog]

I'm currently replaying Arcanum as a pure magic character and I have a quick question - is there any point to the necromantic spell Conjure Spirit? I probably asked this already some time ago but can't remember if it does anything significant... Are there any dead that have something meaningful to say? I know there's some ghost quest at the beginning of the game, but it doesn't require casting that spell.

 

[Section8]

I never explored it in depth, but yes I believe there are quite a few dead people about that can be chatted with. If I remember, you can talk to any corpse, but most are incoherent. If the body is properly prepared, or still somehow aligned to the mortal world, then they have more to say. For instance, I think you could probably kill the Schuylers and use the spell to converse with their grandfather.

 

[Jora]

If you don't want to do the Stillwater Giant quest for the elf who knows the location of Quintarra, you can kill him and get the information from his spirit.

 

[Moggs]

I killed the Schuylers, but conjure spirit does nothing with the Father/Grandfather, you just get the stock "errrgh, this hurts, release me, etc". It seems a pretty much pointless spell. The Qintarra location is the only use I've heard for it.