Necromancy

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

Also Called

 * Death Magic
 * Necrokinesis

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 simply 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 other, whether by becoming some form of Undead creature or by bypassing their own ability to die.

Applications

 * Aura Absorption
 * Death Empowerment
 * Death Inducement
 * Death Sense
 * Divination
 * 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 (deceased souls and/or corpses)
 * Undead Manipulation

Associations

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