Sounds good, I can do a lot with those ideas if you let me run with them. Like for the Necrolyte have him be a quest where he askes the player to kill 5 footman so he can raise them into undeath and everytime a player kills one a invulnerable skeleton comes and and brings the corpse back to the necrolyte.
Or alternatly the players grunts cound be given the ability to carry one corpse, so the player can gather them that way.
Once there are five corpses he preforms a ritutal to raise them as skeletal footman to join the player in battle. Maybe the necrolyte joining the player too.