Necromancy

The power to utilize magic involving the dead, life-force and/or souls. Sub-power of Dark Arts. Form of Magic. Opposite to Animancy. Practitioners of this trade are known as Necromancers.

Also Called

 * Black/Dark Animancy
 * Necrokinesis
 * Necro Magic
 * Undeath Magic

Capabilities
The user's magical abilities revolve around manipulating the dead, death, the life-force and/or souls for good (i.e., resurrecting the dead), evil (in various ways) or neither. Users can also use communicate with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge.

Many practitioners find a way to cheat death one way or another, whether by becoming some form of undead creature or by bypassing their own ability to die.

Applications

 * Aura Absorption
 * Death Inducement
 * Death Sense
 * Divination - by contacting dead/undead beings
 * Ectoplasm Manipulation
 * Immortality
 * Life-Force Absorption
 * Mediumship
 * Mold Manipulation - dead matter
 * Motor-Skill Manipulation - dead/undead beings
 * Pain Inducement
 * Pain Suppression
 * Reanimation
 * Resurrection
 * Soul Manipulation
 * Soul Absorption
 * Summoning/Banishment - deceased souls and/or corpses
 * Soul Summoning
 * Undead Summoning
 * Undead Manipulation
 * Phantasm Manipulation
 * Zombie Manipulation

Techniques

 * Cemetery Empowerment
 * Death Empowerment
 * Necroplasmic Conversion

Associations

 * Cemetery Empowerment
 * Curse Inducement
 * Dark Arts
 * Death-Force Manipulation
 * Death Transcendency
 * Grim Reaper Physiology
 * Necroplasmic Conversion
 * Nether Manipulation
 * Rot Inducement
 * Spirit Physiology
 * Spiritualism
 * Undead Physiology
 * Vodou Deity Physiology

Limitations

 * Magic Negation/Magic Destruction.
 * May be Weak against Animancy and other Life-Based powers.

Known Users
See Also: Necromancer.

Known Objects

 * Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Evil Dead)
 * Book of Shadows (Corpse Party: Book Of Shadows)
 * Book of the Dead (The Mummy)
 * Imperial Arms Yatsufasa (Akame Ga Kill!)
 * Black Volume of the Dead (Shadowhunter Chronicles)