Check your kingdom's laws. Necromancy checkpoints are unconstitutional unless the king has declared a state of undeath.

the real error was letting him near your pocket dimension without a warrant from the high elven magistrate

Let me introduce all of you to hexcore:

Won't get me to stop, I got a Potion of Resist Arrest

Every pally in the kingdom on my tail
They be questin' for me like the Holy Grail
I'm a wizza with a warrant on my head
In this county there's a bounty for me dead

They see me comin' but they can't stop this disaster
They be runnin' but I fly a little faster
I dim the sun, enchant my gun, a trigger caster
They got it comin' son, all paladins are bastards

Sounds like they had too many mana potions at the necropolis.

They'll put you in Prism for a few centuries for that, if they can catch you.

This is fire lmfao

A trick many necromancers seem to miss completely: everyone has a skeleton. You can animate them. It is very difficult to oppose anyone when your skeleton isn't cooperating with you.

Though it isn't for the faint of heart (think about what happens when someone's muscles and tendons want bones to go one way but the skeleton uses bone magic to go a different way. Obviously bone magic wins), and I would not suggest casting this in front of a druid, paladin, barbarian, ranger, or cleric. It's also risky in front of a lot of warriors, rogues, monks, and even sorcerers and wizards. And while it has never made a bard turn on me, every single one of them has disappeared by the next morning.

It's more fun adventuring with a group of fleshies but awkward situations like that are why I generally just make my own party when I feel like adventuring or taking control of a region.

And indeed your actions did you credit, sir - such affrontery from the hired help is intolerable!

Remember, when the guardsmen are protecting a brutal ruler you don't need many people to ambush their convoys and share their loot with the poor.