Necromancy

Necromancy
As King of the Dead, T'Challa/Black Panther (Marvel Comics) became a necromancer with the ability to take command of the dead themselves.
Power/Ability to:	Utilize magic revolving around the dead and undead.

"Though some might say there is not much point to turning the earth into one gigantic graveyard, these people are fools and will never understand anyway."

― Neil Zawacki, How to be a Villain

"The dead make good soldiers. They can't disobey orders, never surrender, and don't stop fighting when a random body part falls off."

― Nevinyrral, "Necromancer's Handbook", Magic: The Gathering

"I'll show you the true powers of a Necromancer. ARISE."

― Sung Jinwoo (Solo Leveling)

The power to utilize magic involving the dead, death-force and/or souls. Form of Magic and Dark Arts. Utilized by Necromancers. Magical variation of Death-Force Manipulation. Opposite to Animancy. Not to be confused with Death-Force Arts.

Also Called

• Black-Animancy/Dark-Animancy
• Death/Death-Related Commands/Spells
• Necro/Undeath Magic

Capabilities

The users either have magical abilities or have powers that 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. They can also 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. This is most frequently depicted as being able to resurrect the dead to varying to degrees, from shambling corpses to conscious zombies to even complete Resurrection. More powerful users and directly convert the living into the undead, allowing them to bypass conventional durability by turning an opponent into a mindless zombie at the user's control.

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
• Blood Magic
• Blood Manipulation
• Bone Manipulation
  • Soul Summoning
  • Undead Summoning
• Damage Inducement/Unhealing/Anti-Regeneration (As it Harms The Living, it could Heal/Regenerate the undead.)
• Death Inducement
• Death Magic
• Death Sense
• Divination - by contacting dead/undead beings
• Ectoplasm Manipulation
• Experience Manipulation - utilizing the tactics, skills and learning of the departed.
• Immortality
• Lazarus Wave Manipulation
  • Mass Resurrection
• Life-Force Absorption
• Mediumship
• Mold Manipulation - dead matter
• Motor-Skill Manipulation - dead/undead beings
• Osteomancy
• Pain Inducement
• Pain Suppression
• Power Sharing/Borrowing
  • Power Sharing Link
• Preservation Manipulation
  • Living State Manipulation
  • Object State Manipulation
• Restoration Augmentation
• Spell Casting
• Spiritualist
  • Spirit Magic
  • Soul Absorption
• Undead Manipulation
  • Phantasm Manipulation
  • Undead Magic
  • Vampire Manipulation
  • Zombie Manipulation
• Voodoo

Techniques

• Cemetery Empowerment
• Death Empowerment
• Death-Force Empowerment
• Reanimation
  • Reanimation Empowerment

Associations

• Archetype:Necromancer
• Curse Inducement
• Dark Arts
• Death-Force Manipulation
• Death Manipulation
• Death Transcendence
• Grim Reaper Physiology
• Hand of Glory Proficiency
• Lich Physiology
• Mystical Conversion
• Necroplasmic Conversion
• Nether Magic
• Nether Manipulation
• Rot Inducement
• Spirit Physiology
• Spiritualism
• Undead Physiology
• Vodou Deity Physiology

Limitations

• Anti-Magic/Magic Destruction/Magic Negation/Magic Sealing/Magical Energy Absorption
• 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.
• May have no effect on those who found eternal rest.

Known Users

See Also: Necromancer.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Eri Nakamura (Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekaisaikyou)
• Rades Spirito (Black Clover)
• Jack (Buster Keel)
• Mikoto (Dead Rock)
• Sakuyamon X (Digimon)
• Keyes (Fairy Tail)
• Ritsu (Fire Force); via Necro pyro
• Vandalieu (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time)
• 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)
• Chihiro Furuya (Sankarea)
• Melascula (The Seven Deadly Sins)
• Johann George Faust VIII (Shaman King)
• Rita (Shingeki no Bahamut)
• Yuka Sasaki (Talentless Nana)
• Sung Jinwoo (Solo Leveling)
• Kim Woo-Jin (Kill The Hero)
• Esther Rosenthal (Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator)
• Sayoko (UQ Holder)
• Zombie Master (Yu-Gi-Oh)
• Dark (Hardcore Leveling Warrior)
• Pooh Upooh (Hardcore Leveling Warrior)
• Impure World Resurrection users (Naruto)
• Choi Lee Kyung (Necromancer Survival)
• Karna Necromos (Rise of the Unemployed Wiseman)
• Various Necromancers (Dead Mount Death Play)

Cartoons/Comics

• Magical Scarab Beetle (American Dragon: Jake Long); via a spell
• The Huntsman (American Dragon: Jake Long); temporarily
• Councilor Chang (American Dragon: Jake Long)
• Hope/Charmcaster (Ben 10 Series)
• The Lich (Adventure Time)
• Marceline the Vampire Queen (Adventure Time)
• Mozenrath (Aladdin: The Animated Series)
• Horned King (The Black Cauldron)
• Devil Forgemasters (Castlevania animated series)
  • Hector
  • Isaac
• Jack Boniface/Shadowman (Vailiant Comics)
• Pariah Dark (Danny Phantom)
• Bloodwynd (DC Comics)
• Effron the Sorcerer (DC Comics)
• Nora Fries (DC Comics)
• Maya (DC Comics)
• Neron (DC Comics)
• Merlin (DC Comics)
• Raven (DC Comics)
• Sartana of the Dead (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera)
• Chernabog (Fantasia)
• Spawn (Image Comics)
• King Vangelis/Skull Sorcerer (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu); via Skull of Hazza D'ur
• Suma-Ket (Marvel Comics)
• Brother Voodoo (Marvel Comics)
• Calypso Ezili (Marvel Comics)
• Dead Girl (Marvel Comics)
• Morgan le Fay (Marvel Comics)
• Black Panther (Marvel Comics)
• Shuri (Marvel Comics)
• Doctor Stephen Strange (Marvel Comics)
• Discord (My Little Pony series)
• Umbra (Necroblivion)
• Aku (Samurai Jack)
• Demongo (Samurai Jack)
• Tom Lucitor (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)
• Pastmaster (Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron)
• The Neutrals (Tails Gets Trolled)
• Morgana (Tales of Arcadia)
• Raven Hex (Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose)
• Mumm-Ra (Thundercats)
• Tengu Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003: Lost Episodes)
• Blood Red Queen of Hearts (Vampirella)
• Dr. Orpheus (The Venture Bros.)
• Baphomet/Nergal (The Wicked + The Divine)
• Nerissa (W.I.T.C.H.)

Folklore/Mythology

• Merlin (Arthurian Legends)
• Witch Of Endor (Christianity)
• Anubis (Egyptian Mythology)
• Osiris (Egyptian Mythology)
• Hades/Pluto (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Hecate/Trivia (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Hel/Hela (Norse Mythology)
• The Devil (Christiaty/Islam)

Literature

• 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)
• Necromancers (The Dresden Files)
  • Alexander Page
  • Capiorcorpus/The Corpsetaker
  • Cowl
  • Drakul
  • Grevane
  • Harry Dresden
  • Heinrich Kemmler
  • Kumori
• Lyctors (The Locked Tomb)
• Necromancers (The Locked Tomb)
• Count Dracula (Dracula)
• Mara Beznik (Freeks)
• Bryce Lawrence (Riordanverse)
• Walt Stone (Kane Chronicles)
• Julius (Kane Chronicles)
• Vera Casnine (Karsearin: Adventures of a Red Dragon)
• Sauron (Lord of the Rings)
• Hades (Riordanverse)
• Nico di Angelo (Riordanverse)
• Bianca di Angelo (Riordanverse)
• Thanatos (Riordanverse)
• Melinoe (Riordanverse)
• Hecate (Riordanverse)
• Sabriel (The Old Kingdom Trilogy)
• Dr. John Dee (Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)
• Malcolm Fade (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
• Nina Zenik (Grishaverse)
• The Other King (Unsong)
• Gorice XII (The Worm Ouroboros)
• Peider (King's Dark Tidings)
• Necromancer's (Skulduggery Pleasant)
  • Solomon Wreath
  • Lord Vile
  • Melancholia St Clair
  • Auron Tenebrae
  • Vandameer Craven
• Skulduggery Pleasant (Skulduggery Pleasant) (as a last resort)
• Valkyrie Cain (Skulduggery Pleasant) (formerly)
• Damian Banach/Walker (The Murder of Crows)
• Crows (The Murder of Crows)

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: The Mummy 2017)
• Set (Dark Universe: The Mummy 2017)
• Ash Williams (The Evil Dead)
• Evil Ash (The Evil Dead)
• Mathias (Fading of the Cries)
• The Night King (Game of Thrones)
• White Walkers (Game of Thrones)
• Agatha Harkness (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Hela (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Morgana (Merlin)
• Nimueh (Merlin)
• Morgause (Merlin)
• Michael Jackson/The Maestro (Michael Jackson's Ghosts)
• Marek (Mythica)
• Renée Marand (The Order)
• Renée's sister (The Order)
• Witches (Salem)
• Kreon (Spookies)
• Old Daka (Star Wars)
• Marnie (True Blood)
• Antonia (True Blood)
• Necromancers (Wizard 101)
• Wei Ying/Wei Wuxian (Mo Dao Zu Shi)
• The Necromancer (Legacies)
• Shadow (Fate: The Winx Saga)
• Freddy Krueger (Nightmares on elm street)

Tabletop Games

• Vecna (AD&D)
• Velsharoon (AD&D)
• Liliana Vess (Magic: The Gathering)
• Necromancer class (RPGs)
• The Necromancer (Small World: Necromancer Island)
• Sin-Eaters (Geist: The Sin-Eaters)
• Moros path (Mage: The Awakening)

Web Comic

• Jacob Deegan (Dominic Deegan: Oracle For Hire)
• Various Characters (The Order of the Stick)
  • Xykon
  • Redcloak
  • Vampire Durkon
  • Malack
  • Tsukiko

Video Games

• Matereani (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Xbox game)
• Devil Forgemasters (Castlevania series)
• Necromancer (Castle Crashers)
• Pinwheel (Dark Souls)
• Necromancers (Dark Souls)
• The Ancestor (Darkest Dungeon)
• The Necromancer (Darkest Dungeon)
• Death (Darksiders 2); via Necromancer Tree
• Nokris, Herald of Xol (Destiny)
• Savathûn, The Witch Queen (Destiny)
• Necromancers (Diablo)
  • Xul
• Inquisitors with the 'Necromancer' specialization (Dragon Age)
• Dorian Pavus (Dragon Age)
• Sidony (Dragon Age)
• Necromancers (The Elder Scrolls)
• Mistychain (Epic Seven)
• Necromancer (Island of Lost Souls)
• Kratos (God of War); via Army of Hades, Claws of Hades and Soul of Hades
• Hades (God of War)
• Necromancer (Guild Wars 2)
• Herrscher of the Void (Honkai Impact 3rd)
• Strong Spirits in Shadow Isles (League of Legends)
  • Hecarim
  • Karthus
  • Kalista
  • Mordekaiser
  • Thresh
  • Yorick
• Mortanius (Legacy of Kain)
• Kain as Scion of Balance (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)
• Undead of the Barren Lands (Mobile Legends:Bang Bang)
  • Framis
  • Leomord
  • Vexana
• Quan Chi (Mortal Kombat)
• Raiden (Mortal Kombat)
• Luna (Shadowverse)
• Hex (Skylanders)
• Undead Spell Punks (Skylanders)
• Wolfgang (Skylanders: Imaginators)
• Mz. Ruby (Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus)
• Tama (Sword of the Necromancer)
• Kairi Sisigou (TYPE-MOON)
• Necromancer Nadia (Valkyrie Connect)
• Necromancer (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Sania (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Nekros (Warframe)
• Arthas Menethil (World of Warcraft)
• Necromancer (Wizard101)
• Duo Lon (The King of Fighters)
• Ao Oni (Ao Oni)
• Robloxians (ROBLOX);via the Dark Summoner Staff, and Skeleton Scythe

Other

• Thriller (Michael Jackson's Thriller)
• Adam El Ansem (SCP Foundation); via Ontokinesis
• SCP-049 - The Plague Doctor (SCP Foundation)
• 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)
• Trollge (Creepypasta)

Known Objects

• Alpha Rune (Ben 10 Series)
• Scottish Book of the Dead (Catscratch)
• Book of Shadows (Corpse Party: Book Of Shadows)
• Lazarus Pit (DC Comics)
• Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Evil Dead)
• Claws of Hades (God of War)
• So'unga (Inuyasha)
• Isildur's Ring of Power (Middle-earth: Shadow of War)
• Black Volume of the Dead (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
• Sword of the Necromancer (Sword of the Necromancer)
• Book of the Dead (The Mummy)
• The Black Cauldron (The Black Cauldron)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Aside from its powerful Onmyōdō magic, Sakuyamon X (Digimon) is also said to be a skilled necromancer.

Eucliwood Hellscythe (Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?)

Keith (Fairy Tail) is revealed to be a Necromancer.

Merascylla (Nanatsu no Taizai) can raise the dead with their rage and spite powering them.

So'unga (Inuyasha) is a demon sword with tremendous necromantic powers, allowing the reanimation of hundreds of dead souls and open a massive portal to the netherworld that can absorb the entire world.

Ainz Ooal Gown (Overlord) specializes in necromancy.

Eri Nakamura (Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekaisaikyou) is a genius necromancer, who can reanimate hundreds of corpses and interface directly with the souls of the dead.

As one of the few wields of death-attribute magic, Vandalieu (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time) can take the soul of any being and use it to reanimate the dead or create Golems, Cursed Weapons or Living Armour.

Nicknamed the Boneyard Sorcerer, Johann Faust VIII (Shaman King) is a highly skilled Shaman specializing in Necromancy, able to reanimate not only his Guardian Ghost but also control an entire army of skeletons.

The Shadow Monarch, Sung Jinwoo (Solo Leveling) can create Shadow Soldiers and Beast from the dead to serve him.

Edo Tensei (Naruto) is a forbidden Necromancy Jutsu which summons Souls from the afterlife and bound them to a live sacrifice to served as their vessels, depending on the user the souls can retain their own minds or be subjugated by the users's will

Cartoons

Councilor Chang (American Dragon: Jake Long) using a powerful Resurrection Spell to bring The Dark Dragon back to life and infuse him with even more dark powers than he had before, making him nearly impossible to defeat than he was last time.

Charmcaster (Ben 10 Series) using a dark resurrection spell to bring her father back from the dead which requires all the living souls in Ledgerdomain.

Mozenrath (Aladdin: The Animated Series) can use his gauntlet to summon an army of Mamluks, undead zombies with one of them being his stepfather/mentor Destante the original ruler of the Land of the Black Sand.

Horned King (The Black Cauldron)

Pastmaster (Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron)

Demongo (Samurai Jack)

Comics

Jack Boniface/Shadowman (Valiant Comics) In a possible future, Jack while in his Shadowman guise, was shown commanding reanimated skeletons to do his bidding

Bloodwynd (DC Comics)

Nora Fries/Lazara (DC Comics)

Spawn (Image Comics)

Suma-Ket (Marvel Comics)

Morgan le Fay (Marvel Comics) was very powerful in necromancy so much so that Doom actually traveled back in time in order to learn from her how to create an army of monsters as well as cast a spell to re-animate every person killed by the sword Excalibur by using a shard of the sword itself in an effort to create an army of the dead.

Calypso Ezili (Marvel Comics)

Baphomet (The Wicked + The Divine) is able to summon the spirits of the dead.

Raven Hex (Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose) is a witch that follows a dark-path, and in doing so she was known for using forbidden and dark magic including necromancy to use as she sees fit.

Walt Stone (Kane Chronicles) is the permanent host of Anubis and has displayed the ability to summon undead warriors from a crack in the ground. They can drag enemies into the Underworld. He can also summon people or spirits from graveyards, although for a short time.

Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)

Live Television/Movies

Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Evil Dead), the Book of the Dead.

Through a pact she made with Set, Ahmanet (Dark Universe) gained tremendous power over necromancy, able to reanimate herself as an undead, mummify people and even reanimate dead corpses that abide by her will.

Book of the Dead (The Mummy)

As the "Goddess of Death," Hela (Marvel Cinematic Universe) was being able to resurrect her allies, her pet wolf Fenris and her Berserkers, using a handful of flame from the Eternal Flame and tossing it against the ground to create a huge blast of green infernal energy.

Others

Malcolm Fade (Shadowhunter Chronicles) attempted to use necromancy to resurrect his lost lover.

A Necromancer manipulating the souls of the dead.

Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson and the Olympians/The Heroes of Olympus), as a son of Hades the Greek God of the dead.

Julius Kane (Kane Chronicles) is the permanent host of Osiris the god of underworld As the Ruler of the Land of the Dead, he has divine authority and complete control over the dead.

Video Games

Nokris (Destiny) is a well known Heretic who uses Necromancy.

Xul The Necromancer (Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction)

Sidony (Dragon Age)

Quan Chi (Mortal Kombat) is a powerful necromancer.

Raiden (Mortal Kombat) using the necromancy techniques of the Houan cult to reanimate Liu Kang.

Hex (Skylanders)

As the Chief Mystic of the Fiendish Five, Mz. Ruby's (Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus) powers allow her to break both the laws of man and nature at the same time.

A Necromancer (Ultima Online)

Necromancer Nadia (Valkyrie Connect)

A Necromancer (Warcraft 3)

Necromancers (Wizard 101) are wizards and witches from the School of Death, their specialties versed around death magic.

Necromancer (Valkyrie Crusade)

Sania (Valkyrie Crusade) the goddess of the dead.

Necromancer (Guild Wars)

Conjuration (The Elder Scrolls) is the school of magic that allows manipulation of certain aspects of the soul. Including summoning and reanimating the dead.

Zog the Eternal (Shadow of War) is an Uruk necromancer that was inspired by Talion's inability to die to create a legion of undead orcs and resurrect the Balrog Tar Goroth to serve Lord Sauron.

Nightsister Merrin (Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order) making use of Dathomir magick to invoke a mass reanimation of her fellow Sisters.

Videos

Analysis & Discussions

D&D 5E Animate Dead-2

Music

Michael Jackson - Thriller (Official Video)