Animancy

Animancy
Xerneas (Pokémon) is a legendary Pokémon that can harness the powers of life itself.
Power/Ability To:	Utilize magic revolving around the life-force.

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."

― Audrey Hepburn

The power to utilize magic involving the living, life-force and/or souls. Form of Magic. Opposite to Necromancy. Practitioners of this trade are known as Animancers.

Also Called

• Birth/Life Magic
• Necromantic White Magic
• White Necromancy
• Sciomancy (Occultism)

Capabilities

The user's magical abilities revolve around manipulating the living, life, the life-force, and life forms. Users can create new forms of life, grant life to the lifeless, animate things, manipulate the life force of the universe and those connected to it.

Many practitioners find a way to make peace with idea that death is everywhere and that life and death are both inevitable forces and can't exist with out the other. Practitioners also have the potential to create or find new ways to bring new life in existence, either by animation, evolution, any way possible.

Applications

• Abjuration
• Animation Manipulation
• Anthropomorphism
• Biological Magic
• Conjuration
• Death Negation
• Death Prevention
• Evolutionary Magic
• Fertility Magic
• Healing
• Inanimation
• Life Magic
• Life Perception
• Medical Magic
• Mediumship/Spiritualism
• Mystical Healing
• Pain Suppression
• Psychic Operation
• Reanimation
• Reincarnation Inducement
• Resurrection
• Spell Casting
• Spirit Magic

Techniques

• Life-Force Empowerment
• Life Empowerment

Associations

• Absolute Life-Force
• Aether Magic
• Aether Manipulation
• Blessing Inducement
• Entity Creation
• Genesis Creation
• Life-Force Manipulation
• Life Creation
• Life Inducement
• Life Manipulation
• Life Wellspring
• Life Transcendence
• Magic
  • Druidic Magic
  • Nature Magic
  • Voodoo
  • White Arts
• Resurrection Manipulation
• Reincarnation Manipulation
• Samsara Manipulation
• Soul Creation

Limitations

• Anti-Magic/Magic Destruction/Magic Negation/Magic Sealing/Magical Energy Absorption
• Necromancy/death-based powers may be especially effective against this power.

Known Users

Anime/Manga

• Zeref Dragneel (Fairy Tail)
• Users of Yang Release (Naruto)
• Xerneas (Pokémon)

Comics/Cartoons

• Wilhelmina "Will" Vandom (W.I.T.C.H.)
• Rose Quartz (Steven Universe)
• Steven Universe (Steven Universe)

Movies

• Elsa (Frozen)

Television

• Witches (American Horror Story: Coven); Vitalum Vitalis
  • Zoe Benson

Video Games

• Necromantic White Spell College (Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura)
• Theurges (Wizard 101)
• Daphne (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Okina Matara (Touhou Project)
• Ghyran Users (Warhammer)
  • Alarielle
  • Jade Order

Known Objects

• Longinus Sephiroth Grail (Highschool DxD)

Gallery

The Power To Give Life.

Zoe Benson (American Horror Story: Coven) using Vitalum Vitalis to resurrect a homeless man.

Zeref Drageel (Fairy Tail) has done immense magic research on Animancy, allowing him to create tens of thousands of Demons and even resurrect his dead brother Natsu as his strongest Demon.

Valerie Tepes (Highschool DxD) is the wielder of the Longinus Sephiroth Grail which has the power to control the principle of life.

After receiving power from the Sage of the Six Paths, Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) gained the ability to use Six Path Yang Release to stabilize life-force and restore missing organs through physical contact.

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Daphne (Valkyrie Crusade) the goddess of life.

Wilhelmina "Will" Vandom (W.I.T.C.H.)

Theurges (Wizard 101) are wizards and witches from the School of Life, their specialties versed around life magic.

The Holy Grail of the Secluded World: Sephiroth Grail (Highschool DxD) is a Longinus that can control the principle of life, capable of life giving miracles, such as limitation transcendence, resurrection, regeneration bestowal, and life renewal.