I like that Hlin and Emma seem to have such different perspectives when it comes to the dead.<br/><br/>Since the game has some Lovecraft undertones, I'm going with a Herbert West approach to necromancy. I see Emma as the opposite of Herbert West, in a sense. In the Reanimator stories Herbert West's humanity and attachment to his own body erode with each act of necromancy, such are the horrors he glimpses through the reanimated. I think it might have served as a parable for atheism, viewed through the same harsh lens Lovecraft seemed to view everything. If so, then Emma is a parable for Buddhism, having accepted an eternity void of paradise and chosen to invest herself in the living as a result of it.