- "Less substantial than living bodies, but much more than ghosts."
- ― Description of the souls brought back by the Resurrection Stone (Harry Potter)
The power to summon souls from beyond the grave. Sub-power of Soul Manipulation. Variation of Summoning, Mediumship and Communing. Opposite to Soul Banishment.
Also Called
- Ghost Summoning/Calling
- Séance
- Soul Calling
- Spirit Calling
Capabilities
The user can summon spirits from beyond the grave in order to commune or serve the user.
Applications
Associations
- Communing
- Mediumship
- Necromancy
- Soul Manipulation
- Soul Resonation
- Strong Soul (required for the user to maintain their sanity and control the power of their altered soul)
- Summoning
Limitations
- If a soul doesn't want to be summoned, they might resist the summoning.
- Summoned souls may have a mind of their own.
Known Users
- Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto (Bleach)
- Lysander Sage (Charlie Bone)
- Witches (Charmed); via Spell Casting
- Neri (Children of the Whales)
- Chernabog (Disney’s Fantasia)
- Wendy (Fairy Tail)
- Kuri Himeshiro (Fortissimo EXS//Akkord:nächsten Phase)
- Lost Jack (Granblue Fantasy)
- Ritualists (Guild Wars)
- Aradia Megido (Homestuck)
- Toshiie Maeda (Horizon In The Middle of Nowhere)
- Necromancer (Island of Lost Souls)
- Peta (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Nekomaru (Moeyo Ken)
- Melascula (Nanatsu no Taizai)
- Users of Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation (Naruto)
- Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki (Naruto)
- Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)
- Olaric (Return to Castle Wolfenstein)
- Undead (Return to Castle Wolfenstein)
- Ghouls
- Mummies
- Zombies
- Anna Asakura (nee Kyoyama) (Shaman King)
- Witches (True Blood); via Spell Casting
- Ymiron (Warcraft)
- Lich King (Warcraft)
- Running Wolf (Walker, Texas Ranger)
- Pharos Heracles (Yumekui Merry)
Known Objects
- Elven Moonblades (Forgotten Realms); via Elf-Shadow
- Zin-Carla spell (Forgotten Realms)
- Resurrection Stone (Harry Potter)
- Spirit Speaker (My Babysitter's a Vampire)
Gallery
Yamamoto (Bleach) using Zanka no Tachi, Minami: Kaka Jūmanokushi Daisōjin to summon ten trillion souls of those he burned to death.
Orochimaru (Naruto) uses the Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation/Summoning Jutsu: Reanimation to summon souls from the Pure World and reincarnate them.
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Kabuto (Naruto) claims his usage of Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation/Summoning Jutsu: Reanimation surpasses Tobirama and Orochimaru, shown by summoning an army of souls.
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Anna Asakura (Shaman King) is a powerful Itako, a shaman capable of summoning spirits from the afterlife.
Ghost ÄRM, Abyss Cannon allows Peta (Marchen Awakens Romance) to summon tortured souls from Hell.
The Resurrection Stone of the Deathly Hollows (Harry Potter) can summon the souls of the dead as illusionary shades.