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 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
- 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
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)