Necromancer
Necromancers are mystics that have the ability to communicate with or manipulate the spirits of the dead.
Overview[]
Necromancer are powerful sorcerers that are capable of summoning the spirits of the dead, bending flesh and bone into grotesque servants or asking the dead to aid them in divination. They may have the ability to raise corpses or even body parts to life, employing them into a morbid enslavement.
Necromancy is shunned by most civilizations, and for good reason. Even necromancers with good intent (such as restoring life to those who lost it too soon) will soon find themselves driven mad with either the power granted to them or the revelations such abilities over life and death bring.
Description[]
Necrotic Magic[]
Necromancers are known to Necrotic Magic to draw strength, vitality and/or any power from other living creatures. The death of living things is said to empower this skill, as do things associated with death like bones and skulls which can serve as helpful instruments in channeling this magic.
Necromancers who master necrotic magic can induce necrosis, or premature cell death, in others, causing the rapid decay of the victim's flesh. As the target deteriorates, the Necromancer absorbes their life force, rejuvenating themselves and replenishing their energy.
Zombi[]
Some necromancers, particularly practitioners of Voodoo possess the ability to raise the bodies of the dead and force them into serve as undead thralls. In this manner, powerful necromancers could amass armies of the undead that would enact their will and spread terror among their enemies. These zombies possess no will of their own, unlike the more common Zombie which are known for their insatiable hunger.
Gashadokuro[]
Japanese necromancers were also known to possess the ability to create Gashadokuro, giant skeletons of varying sizes, some up to fifteen times taller than an average person. These beings were composed of amassed bones of people who died of starvation or in battle, without being buried, or those who died from plague and were put into a mass grave. It is known that Takiyasha Hime summoned a Gashadokuro to attack the Japanese city of Kyoto at some point in the past.
Lich[]
Some necromancers advance to a "greater" state of being, a state of quasi-godhood known as Lichdom. Becoming a Lich involves a long and complicated process known only to a few. Liches are created when a necromancer learns how to place his soul into an object known as a Phylactery. As this forbidden knowledge is closely guarded, the only known way to learn how to do this is to literally seek out the aid of an already existent Lich and compel the knowledge from them.