Changes: Necromancy

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The power to utilize magic abilities 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 Inducement
Death Sense
Divination
Ectoplasm Manipulation
Immortality
Life-Force Absorption
Mediumship
Mold Manipulation (dead matter)
Motor-Skill Manipulation (dead/undead beings)
Necrotic Empowerment
Pain Inducement
Pain Suppression
Reanimation
Resurrection
Soul Manipulation
- Soul Absorption
Summoning (deceased souls and/or corpses)
Undead Manipulation

Associations

Known Users

Ra's al Ghul (DC Comics)
Eucliwood Hellscythe (Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?)
Kratos (God of War) via Army of Hades
Arawn Death-Lord (The Chronicles of Prydain)
Anita Blake (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter)
Bloodwynd (DC Comics)
Effron the Sorcerer (DC Comics)
Nora Fries (DC Comics)
Gorice XII (The Worm Ouroboros)
Horned King (The Chronicles of Prydain)
Amy Madison (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Magnus Hainsley (Angel)
Matereani (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Xbox game)
Maya (DC Comics)
Merlin (DC Comics/Arthurian legends)
Mozenrath (Aladdin: The Animated Series)
Nerissa (W.I.T.C.H.)
Arthas Menethil (World of Warcraft)
Mz. Ruby (Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus)
Orochimaru (Naruto)
Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto)
Reiko Himezono (Reiko the Zombie Shop)
Sabriel (The Old Kingdom Trilogy)
Sauron (The Lord of the Rings)
Suma-Ket (Marvel Comics)
Calypso (Marvel Comics)
Vecna (Dungeons & Dragons)
Velsharoon (Dungeons & Dragons)
Quan Chi (Mortal Kombat)
Zarok (MediEvil)
Swan (Lollipop Chainsaw)
Spawn (Image Comics)
Count Dracula (Dracula)
Pastmaster (Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron)
Mortanius (Legacy of Kain)
Marnie (True Blood)
Antonia (True Blood)
Johann George Faust VIII (Shaman King)
Necromancers (Skulduggery Pleasant)
The Lich (Adventure Time)
Mumm-Ra (Thundercats)
Dark Anubis (Ningutsu)
Ash Williams (Evil Dead)
Evil Ash (Evil Dead)
Hades/Pluto (Greek/Roman Mythology); controls the Underworld's inhabitants
Death (Darksiders II)
Wizards from Death School (Wizard101)
Hel (Norse Mythology)
Welveria the Swamp Witch (Queen's Blade)
Twyla Valentine (The Caster Chronicles)
Dr John Dee (Nicholas Flamel Secrets of the Immortal)

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