- For a gallery of Summoning, see here.
- "Do not call up that which you cannot put down."
- ― H.P. Lovecraft: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
- "Do not call up that which you cannot put on hold."
- ― Greg Hill and Kerry Wendell Thornley: Principia Discordia
The power to summon forth an object or organism. Opposite of Banishment.
Capabilities
The user can transport person, creature, or object of choice by means of Teleportation, Dimensional Travel, Portal Creation or some other way. This may also result from a previous summoning contract, which creates a connection between the summon and summoner.
High level users may not be bound by restrictions such as a contract, and can summon anything they want, including powerful beings or "familiar spirits" and often require strong mystic connections to where these entities reside. Users can call upon fairies, angels, demons, or animal spirits, just to name a few.
The summoning can backfire, however, leading to any number of misfortunes, such as the summoned person, creature, or item causing harm to the summoner.
Techniques
- Alternate Matter Materialization - Ability to summon matter from alternate universes and possible futures/timelines.
- Animal Emerging
- Door Projection/Portal Creation - Ability to summon portals and gateways.
- Elemental Generation - Ability to summon elements.
- Materialized Guardian - Ability to summon a Guardian.
- Meteor Summoning - Ability to summon astrological rocks from outer space.
- Object Creation - Ability to summon objects from nothing.
- Over Run! - Ability to summon army.
- Snake Den - Ability to summon snakes to attack.
- Soul Summoning - Ability to summon souls from beyond the grave.
- Spatial Displacement - Ability to summon an entire environment to the battlefield.
- Summon Infusion - Ability to infuse any object with summoning capabilities.
- Weapon Summoning - Ability to summon weapons.
Variations
- Conjuration - Summon using spells.
- Meta Summoning - Summon anything/everything.
Associations
- Banishment - very important, not being able to get rid of the summoned has been fall for many users.
- Contract Bestowal - some live summons may require a contract to bring towards the summoner.
- Energy Circle Combat - some summons require a magic circle/symbol to bring forth the target.
- Meta Teleportation
- Space-Time Manipulation - summoning usually involves transporting target through the space-time continuum.
Limitations
- Summoning immensely large/heavy object can take a mental toll on the user.
- Summoned entities may become uncontrollable and put the summoner in danger.
- May require a contract to summon specific creatures.
- Summoning certain creatures/people may require a sacrifice, such as blood, wealth or life.
- Certain symbols, carvings and/or ceremonies may be needed to summon creatures/people objects.
- May require the user to have knowledge of what is to be summoned to actually bring forth it.
- May require the creature's/person's approval if what is being summoned is a creature/person.
- May be unable to summon based upon time/location or other temporal/spacial limitations/restrictions.
Known Users
See Also: Summon Magic and Summoning Ritual.
Manga/Anime
- Sajin Komamura (Bleach)
- Retsu Unohana (Bleach)
- Him (Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z)
- Han Jee-Han (The Gamer)
- Seikoku users (Dragonar Academy)
- Lucy Heartfilia (Fairy Tail)
- Celestial Spirit Mages (Fairy Tail)
- Capricorn (Fairy Tail)
- Miaka Yūki (Fushigi Yûgi)
- Yui Hongo (Fushigi Yûgi)
- Suzuno Osugi (Fushigi Yûgi)
- Takiko Okuda (Fushigi Yûgi and Fushigi Yûgi Genbu Kaiden)
- Alucard (Hellsing)
- Users of Kaijudo (Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters)
- Box Weapons (Katekyō Hitman Reborn!)
- Summoners (Mon Colle Knights)
- Summoning Technique users (Naruto)
- Huang Fei-Hung (Rosario + Vampire: Season II)
- Miao Xai-Lung (Rosario + Vampire: Season II)
- Yukari Sendō (Rosario + Vampire: Season II)
- Kazehaya Kamito (Spirit Elementalist's Blade Dance)
- Female Contractors (Spirit Elementalist's Blade Dance)
- Kojō Akatsuki (Strike the Blood)
- Dimitrie Vatler (Strike the Blood)
- Hwan Sung-Gon (The Gamer)
- Kinzo Ushiromiya/Lord Goldsmith (Umineko: When They Cry)
- Beatrice (Umineko: When They Cry)
- Eva-Beatrice (Umineko: When They Cry)
- Ange-Beatrice (Umineko: When They Cry)
- Shadow Game Duelists (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
- Psychic Duelists (Yu-Gi-Oh 5D)
- Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Friederich Tanner (The Qwaser of Stigmata); via cards
Video Games
- Rakanoth (Diablo)
- Kongu (Bionicle)
- Summoner Class (Final Fantasy)
- Kadaj (Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children)
- L'Cie (Final Fantasy XIII)
- Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
- Tara Grimface (Lost Kingdoms II)
- Bomamba (NiGHTS Journey into Dreams)
- Z.W.E.I (Soul Calibur 5)
- Ghirahim (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
- Conjurer (The Elder Scrolls V:Skyrim)
- Summoner (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Devil Summoner (Valkyrie Crusade)
Comics
- Kid Eternity (DC Comics)
- Magik (Marvel Comics)
- Squirrel Girl / Doreen Green (Marvel Comics)
- Dark Man/Mr. Dark (Fables)
Literature
- Warlocks (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
- Elias (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
- Magnus Bane (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
- Tessa Gray (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
- Valentine Morgenstern (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
- Simon Lewis (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
- Most magic users from the courts of Chaos (The Chronicles of Amber)
- Brand (The Chronicles of Amber)
- Merlin (The Chronicles of Amber)
- Izumo No Okuni (Valkyrie Crusade)
TV Series
- Genie (Aladdin)
- Jafar (Aladdin)
- Mirage (Aladdin: the Animated series)
- Chaos (Aladdin: the Animated series)
- Eden](Aladdin: the Animated series)
- Mozenrath (Aladdin: the Animated series)
- Andrew Wells (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Paige Matthews (Charmed)
- Elders (Charmed)
- The Crone (Charmed)
- The Triad (Charmed)
- Debra Harding (Heroes)
- Tak (Tak and the Power of Juju)
- Oni Mask Wearers (Jackie Chan Adventures)
- Him (Powerpuff Girls)