“Do not worry too much about offending.”

”The word necromancer translates differently across worlds. He is a reputable agent of an underworld, who communicates with the dead. The word often translates to the same as one who commands or even enthralls the dead, but he does not do that. This mistranslation is the most usual cause of offense.”

”He is representing a larger organization, the underworld city and their funerary cult. They handle visitation on approved holy days, sending messages, gifts to relatives in the underworld, and arranging for living individuals to go to the specific underworld city after death.”

"You did specify what they do. As it happens, necromancy of the dead-enslaving sort is also reviled for us, but it's exceptionally rare. This underworld is a place one can actually visit? We're used to the Spirit Realm being... Mmh... More metaphorical than material."

“He will be able to explain the details better, it seems like underworlds are both ethereal and material, and the whole system is somewhat confusing. Usually people only cross one way, but there are exceptions. Hero types who quest to ann underworld and return. Certain spells to return individuals from the dead. Holidays where the dead may cross over to visit the living, but only with a stamped travel pass and only for one day. Physical offerings of food or wealth that are sent down to a specific underworld city.”

"Offerings, hmm? Lots to discuss."

“Whoever runs the way station usually takes a cut…”

"We have fox shrines. It's nothing so systematic but the same spirit."

“Oh, they are very systematic. Very punctual as well. One moment.”

Knocking on the door.

Entering, a man dressed in black, a mix of professional and goth. His face is painted white and decorated with gold jewelry. 

“Greetings, spirit of the boundary, in the name of the alabaster underworld”

"Greetings indeed. There's a lot I'd like to learn, so thank you for taking the time to come meet here. I go by Megi, and shrine-attendant in this context."