Ooh, I think you'd be surprised... Gnomish Tinkerers invented the Iconograph a good while ago (see your loading screens - you see something like it on one of them) and have been refining the design ever since re-discovering long lost blueprints in KlackAnon. Of course, being *Gnomish* tinkerers, they first redesigned it as part of a weapon system then converted it to domestic use when it failed to fulfil its intended purpose... or is it the other way round? Hmm... I wonder if Iconographs *do* steal part of your soul...
Essay Title : The Use of Iconographs in Necromancy. Discuss.