[Vicious Love]

Hey, necromancy was fine before Ermor's ineptitude gave it a bad name. No sauromancer would dream of actually casting Burden of Time, just as no Abysian would consider casting Resist Fire, despite access to the respective spells in question.
As for assassins and haunted forests, both seem like pretty legitimate defensive measures to me. You're just jealous because C'tis was building cities back when Eldergate was a nook in a mountainside and Pangaea was still struggling to figure out that whole mating thing.
Also, C'tis' god is better than yours. I have proof.

Edit: Oh, and the miasma qualifies as no more or less than a sound defensive strategy, as well.