Necromancy

The power to utilize magic involving the dead, life-force and/or souls. 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 death-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
 * Conjuration - deceased souls and/or corpses
 * Soul Summoning
 * Undead Summoning
 * Death Inducement
 * Death Magic
 * 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
 * Self-Resurrection
 * Spell Casting
 * Spirit Magic
 * Soul Absorption
 * Undead Manipulation
 * Phantasm Manipulation
 * Zombie Manipulation

Techniques

 * Cemetery Empowerment
 * Death Empowerment

Associations

 * Curse Inducement
 * Dark Arts
 * Death-Force Manipulation
 * Death Manipulation
 * Death Transcendence
 * Grim Reaper Physiology
 * Lich Physiology
 * Mystical Conversion
 * Necroplasmic Conversion
 * Nether Magic
 * Nether Manipulation
 * Rot Inducement
 * Spirit Physiology
 * Spiritualism
 * Undead Physiology
 * Voodoo
 * Vodou Deity Physiology

Limitations

 * Magic Negation/Magic Destruction
 * May be Weak against Animancy and other Life-Based powers.
 * Filth Manipulation may be used against this power.
 * Robots and Mechanical Beings are immune to necromancy as they have no souls or life force.

Known Users
See Also: Necromancer.

Cartoons/Comics
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 * The Lich (Adventure Time)
 * Marceline the Vampire Queen (Adventure Time)
 * Mozenrath (Aladdin: The Animated Series)
 * Horned King (The Black Cauldron)
 * Bloodwynd (DC Comics)
 * Effron the Sorcerer (DC Comics)
 * Nora Fries (DC Comics)
 * Maya (DC Comics)
 * Nekron (DC Comics)
 * Merlin (DC Comics)
 * Sartana of the Dead (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera)
 * Spawn (Image Comics)
 * Suma-Ket (Marvel Comics)
 * Calypso (Marvel Comics)
 * Dead Girl (Marvel Comics)
 * Morgan le Fay (Marvel Comics)
 * Black Panther (Marvel Comics)
 * Grogar (My Little Pony And Friends)
 * Aku (Samurai Jack)
 * Tom Lucitor (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)
 * Pastmaster (Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron)
 * Raven Hex (Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose)
 * Mumm-Ra (Thundercats)
 * Blood Red Queen of Hearts (Vampirella)
 * Dr. Orpheus (The Venture Bros.)
 * Baphomet/Nergal (The Wicked + The Divine)
 * Nerissa (W.I.T.C.H.)

Manga/Anime

 * Kurome (Akame ga Kill!); via Imperial Arms Yatsufasa
 * Eri Nakamura (Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekaisaikyou)
 * Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto (Bleach)
 * Keith (Fairy Tail)
 * Incognito (Hellsing)
 * Rabbit (Juuni Taisen)
 * Eucliwood Hellscythe (Is This a Zombie?)
 * Ainz Ooal Gown (Overlord)
 * Welveria the Swamp Witch (Queen's Blade)
 * Reiko Himezono (Reiko the Zombie Shop)
 * Melascula (The Seven Deadly Sins)
 * Johann George Faust VIII (Shaman King)
 * Sayoko (UQ Holder)
 * Zombie Master (Yu-Gi-Oh)

Mythology/Folklore

 * Merlin (Arthurian legends)
 * Anubis (Eyptian Mythology)
 * Osiris (Egyptian Mythology)
 * Hades/Pluto (Greco-Roman Mythology)
 * Hecate/Trivia (Greco-Roman Mythology)
 * Hel/Hela (Norse Mythology)}}

Literature
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 * Anita Blake (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter)
 * Turiel (The Book of Deacon)
 * Twyla Valentine (The Caster Chronicles)
 * Arawn Death-Lord (The Chronicles of Prydain)
 * Horned King (The Chronicles of Prydain)
 * Randall Flagg (The Dark Tower)
 * Count Dracula (Dracula)
 * Mara Beznik (Freeks)
 * Bryce Lawrence (Heroes of Olympus)
 * Walt Stone (Kane Chronicles)
 * Julius Kane (Kane Chronicles)
 * Sauron (Lord of the Rings)
 * Hades (Percy Jackson and the Olympians/Heroes of Olympus)
 * Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson and the Olympians/Heroes of Olympus)
 * Bianca di Angelo (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
 * Sabriel (The Old Kingdom Trilogy)
 * Dr. John Dee (Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)
 * Malcolm Fade (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
 * The Other King (Unsong)
 * Gorice XII (The Worm Ouroboros)
 * Peider (King's Dark Tidings)

Live Television/Movies

 * Marie Laveau (American Horror Story: Coven)
 * Misty Day (American Horror Story: Coven)
 * Magnus Hainsley (Angel)
 * Donna Gilchrist (Being Human)
 * Amy Madison (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * The Necromancer (Charmed)
 * Alchemists (Charmed)
 * Doyle (Dark Oracle)
 * Omen (Dark Oracle)
 * Vern (Dark Oracle)
 * Ahmanet (Dark Universe)
 * Ash Williams (Evil Dead)
 * Evil Ash (Evil Dead)
 * Mathias (Fading of the Cries)
 * The Night King (Game of Thrones)
 * White Walkers (Game of Thrones)
 * Morgana (Merlin)
 * Nimueh (Merlin)
 * Morgause (Merlin)
 * Michael Jackson/The Maestro (Michael Jackson's Ghosts)
 * Marek (Mythica)
 * Witches (Salem)
 * Marnie (True Blood)
 * Antonia (True Blood)
 * Necromancers (Wizard 101)
 * Kreon (Spookies)

Tabletop Games

 * Vecna (AD&D)
 * Velsharoon (AD&D)
 * Liliana Vess (Magic: the Gathering)
 * Necromancer class (RPGs)
 * The Necromancer (Small World: Necromancer Island)
 * Necromancers (Warhammer)

Video Games

 * Matereani (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Xbox game)
 * Necromancer (Castle Crashers)
 * Pinwheel (Dark Souls)
 * Necromancer (Dark Souls)
 * Death (Darksiders 2); via Necromancer Tree
 * Nokris, Herald of Xol (Destiny)
 * Necromancers (Diablo)
 * Xul
 * Inquisitors with the 'Necromancer' specialization (Dragon Age)
 * Dorian Pavus (Dragon Age)
 * Sidony (Dragon Age)
 * Necromancers (The Elder Scrolls)
 * Necromancer (Island of Lost Souls)
 * Kratos (God of War); via Army of Hades, Claws of Hades and Soul of Hades
 * Hades (God of War)
 * Yorick (League of Legends)
 * Mordekaiser (League of Legends)
 * Mortanius (Legacy of Kain)
 * Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)
 * Swan (Lollipop Chainsaw)
 * Zarok (MediEvil)
 * Talion (Middle-earth: Shadow of War); via Isildur's Ring of Power
 * Isildur (Middle-earth: Shadow of War)
 * Zog The Eternal (Middle-earth: Shadow of War)
 * Quan Chi (Mortal Kombat)
 * Raiden (Mortal Kombat)
 * Hex (Skylanders)
 * Undead Spell Punks (Skylanders)
 * Wolfgang (Skylanders: Imaginators)
 * Mz. Ruby (Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus)
 * Kairi Sisigou (TYPE-MOON)
 * Necromancer (Valkyrie Crusade)
 * Sania (Valkyrie Crusade)
 * Nekros (Warframe)
 * Arthas Menethil (World of Warcraft)

Other

 * Thriller (Michael Jackson's Thriller)
 * Necromancers (Skulduggery Pleasant)
 * Lord Vile/Skulduggery Pleasant
 * Melancholia St. Clair/ The Death Bringer
 * Valkryie Cain/ Darquesse
 * Solomon Wreath
 * Auron Tenebrae
 * Vandameer Craven
 * Dark Anubis (Summoners War)
 * Amplus Barpo (TF2 Freak)
 * Necromanncer (TF2 Freak)}}

Known Objects

 * Imperial Arms Yatsufasa (Akame Ga Kill!)
 * Book of Shadows (Corpse Party: Book Of Shadows)
 * Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Evil Dead)
 * So'unga (Inuyasha)
 * Isildur's Ring of Power (Middle-earth: Shadow of War)
 * Book of the Dead (The Mummy)
 * Black Volume of the Dead (Shadowhunter Chronicles)