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Necromancy

 

Necromancy is one of the most coveted and forbidden Dark Arts, and perhaps the oldest of them.  Necromancers are able to manipulate the forces of life and death and bend them to their will, through spells that can raise the dead, drain the life out of living creatures, and weave dark curses upon those that have crossed them.  The energy that necromancers use to power their spells is called Life Force and necromancers are able to control this energy through something called a Darkhollow.

 

 

 

Mechanics of Necromancy

 

The fundamentals of Necromancy and the core mechanics which everything else within the magic is based off of.  It is important to get a good grasp on these concepts as you begin to practice the magic, as without them all of your roleplay will fall in on itself.

 

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Mechanics of Necromancy

 

Becoming a Necromancer

 

Necromancy cannot be self taught and a necromancer must be created by another necromancer.  A necromancer requires a Darkhollow so that they can manipulate life force, the resource that powers necromancy spells.  A Darkhollow can only be created by someone who knows the Sacrament of Adherence.  Once attuned to necromancy, a necromancer can then be taught by any necromancy teacher.  To become a Necromancy teacher a necromancer must know the Reverse Tether spell.

 

Necromancy takes up three of a player’s five available magic slots, or two magic slots for Liches.



Life Force

 

Life force is the energy that flows through all things natural and living.  The earth, flowers, trees, critters, beasts, and descendants all need life force to exist.  Without it, organs would fail, immune systems would stop working, blood would not flow, and life as we know it would cease to exist.  Life force builds naturally in all living things and cannot be destroyed entirely. When something dies any life force that remains seeps deep into the earth, ready to be cycled anew.

 

Necromancers have the unique ability to control this energy, push or pull it, and redirect it to their whims.  Life force powers every spell a necromancer casts, and so they must take life force from flora and fauna in the world around them if they wish to practice their magic.  All undead contain life force in some capacity in order to exist, but creatures such as golems that are powered solely by magic do not contain life force.


 

The Darkhollow

 

The Darkhollow is a living curse within a Necromancer that allows them to manipulate life force.  The curse also gives the necromancer a insatiable hunger for life force, forcing them to keep their body fuelled with life force or risk deteriorating into a weak husk of a person.

 

The Darkhollow allows a necromancer to live longer as they only age at half of their normal speed.

 

The Darkhollow can only be granted through the spell Sacrament of Adherence and made dormant by the spell Sacrament of Silence.


 

A Necromancer’s Physical State

 

A necromancer’s body is always on the decline as the vacuum of the Darkhollow slowly eats away at them.  This means life force is departing from the necromancer’s body quicker than it can naturally regain life force.  If this continues a necromancer will eventually begin to turn frail and gaunt, looking nearly skeletal after three years of failing to replenish their life force reserves.  If a necromancer keeps on top of the life force leaking from his body and regularly drains once a year then they will continue looking relatively normal. The hunger of the Darkhollow causes all necromancers to lose any excess muscle and fat after a short time of practising necromancy, and thus necromancers have little physical strength and could be easily overwhelmed should they rely on it in a fight.

 

A necromancer is not feeble by default but they cannot become strong either, they are simply lean and lacking in any real muscle, this state deteriorates if they do not actively drain.  A necromancer’s health and wellbeing will slowly degrade every week that they do not drain, and after three weeks will become frail and skeletal, nearly crippled in their hunger. (See Life Drain under Necromancy Spells.)

 

A necromancer should drain a body’s worth of life force at least once a IRL week if they wish to remain healthy.  

 

A necromancer cannot wield normal one handed weapons with any real expertise and cannot at all use two handed weapons.  They do not have the strength or endurance to carry around a suit of armour of anything past thick leathers.

 

A necromancer can craft light but brittle weapons and armour out of bone that they can better utilise. (See Bonesmithing)   

 


 

Necromancy Spellcasting Capacity

 

Necromancers have a higher maximum capacity for holding life force than normal living creatures thanks to their Darkhollow, and this capacity grows further the more developed their Darkhollow becomes.

 

Necromancy uses the resource ‘life force’ to cast spells.  A necromancer can only hold so much life force at any one time, allowing them to cast a finite number of spells before needing to Life Drain living creatures and plants to replenish themselves.

 

The cost of resources needed to cast Necromancy spells are measured in half-bodies of life force (Meaning half of the life force that one descendant body contains) and thus we consider each half body’s worth of life force to be interchangeable with one spell cast, or spell slot.  More powerful Necromancy spells may boast a higher cost.  A necromancer can hold the same amount of life force as a regular person (two spell slots) and then additionally another spell slot for each tier they have achieved in necromancy.  

 

The additional spell slots received from advancing through the tiers are the spell slots expended first, because this is considered excess life force and therefore has no negative consequences for the necromancer to expend it.  The final two spell slots that necromancers have access to pull life force from the necromancer’s own body, harming themself to continue casting their spells.

 

It is calculated as follows:

 

Tier 1 - 2 base spell slots + 1 excess.  3 spells total.

Tier 2 - 2 base spell slots + 2 excess.  4 spells total.

Tier 3 - 2 base spell slots + 3 excess.  5 spells total.

Tier 4 - 2 base spell slots + 4 excess.  6 spells total.

Tier 5 – 2 base spell slots + 5 excess.  7 spells total.

 

The base two spell slots represent the life force needed to keep the necromancer’s body functioning, just like any other living creature.  These spell slots are only expended when a necromancer is really pushing himself, sacrificing safety for power. If they are expended, they will naturally come back after one IRL day as the necromancer’s body works to repair the disruption of life force. Excess spell slots do not regenerate automatically, and must be reclaimed by using the Life Drain spell.

 

When the first of these two slots is expended, the necromancer feels heavily fatigued, cannot run for long and becomes prone to being tricked by any magics that may effect or deceive the mind.  A necromancer is also sapped of any strength he may have had, too.

 

When the second of these two slots is expended the necromancer has basically squeezed every drop of energy he can out of himself without physically killing him, he is utterly exhausted and almost unconscious.  He can barely walk, at a snail’s pace and can talk through ragged breaths, which is still enough to command any reanimated undead under his control.

 

Life Drain does not cost any spell slots to cast as it is the method for replenishing them. (See Life Drain under Necromancy Spells.)

 

Certain spells that do not expend life force completely but rather only temporarily lend life force to something will instead cause one spell slot to be frozen upon casting and while the spell is active, and the spell slot will become available again when the spell is cancelled. (See Reanimation and Dark Branding under Necromancy Spells.)

 

Through a system of spell slots which loosely represent how much life force a necromancer has at his disposal, a necromancer has properly defined amounts of spells they can cast before needing to Life Drain to replenish their energy.

 

Necromancy spell slots increase with each tier as the necromancer boasts a higher limit to the life force they may carry, though every necromancer has two emergency spell slots that represent the life force that powers their own physical body.  Spending these spell slots will drain the necromancers own body and severely weaken him. These two spell slots regenerate automatically every IRL day, whereas others must be recharged with Life Drain.

 

 

 




Standard Necromancy Spell List

 

This is the list of standard necromancy spells that all necromancers should expect to learn.  All spells have prerequisite spells that must be learned prior to learning them (Such as Life Drain being required to learn ANY necromancy spell.)  These are at the top of a spells red-lines in bold.

 

 

Life Drain [Tier 1]

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Life Drain [Tier 1]

 

 

Life Drain is the first spell a necromancer will learn, as it is the staple of necromancy, life force control in its purest form.  With this spell a necromancer can suck the life out of anything that lives and is kept alive by the flow of life force. This means descendants, animals, monsters, plants, and even undead can be drained.  (Some magical creatures may be immune to Life Drain but that is on a case by case basis that is noted in the specific creature’s Lore submission. Simply refer to the lore for the creature if you are unsure.  Golems are an example of such magical creatures.)

 

A necromancer must frequently use Life Drain to stay healthy as well as to replenish spell slots.  Draining living creatures is easier and more effective than draining plants, though comes with more potential danger.  Draining a creature that is healthy until it dies allows the spell to harvest every ounce of energy contained in the creature, even the dormant life force that holds together the muscle and flesh of the body, this fully replenishes the appropriate amount of spell slots, whereas draining something until it is near death will replenish less.  A necromancer can also drain the body of something that has recently died, salvaging some of the life force as it seeps back into the earth, and replenishing less spell slots as they would have gotten from draining them to death. The creature had to have died no more than two hours ago to drain their body. Lastly a necromancer cannot replenish more spell slots than is their maximum.

 

Here is a guide to how different things replenish different amounts of spell slots for a necromancer.

 

 

Draining Creatures

 

Draining creatures is the most efficient way for a necromancer to replenish his power, but potentially more dangerous.

 

Draining four tiny creatures restores 1 spell slot.  

Tiny creatures are creatures under one foot tall like critters and small birds, but nothing smaller than a mouse.

Examples: Seagulls, Squirrels, Rabbits, Bats, Rats.

 

Draining small creatures restores 2 spell slots if it kills them, 1 if they are on the brink of death or have died recently.

Small creatures are creatures between one and three feet tall.

Examples: Pigs, Dogs, Cats, Descendant youth, Sheep.

 

Draining medium sized descendants or creatures of similar size replenishes 4 spell slots if it kills them, 2 if they are on the brink of death or have died recently.

Medium creatures are creatures between three and seven feet tall.

Examples: Most playable descendant races, wolves, horses, most pack animals.

 

Draining large creatures restores 7 spell slots if it kills them, 4 if they are on the brink of death or have died recently.

Large creatures are creatures between seven and fifteen feet tall.

Examples: Ologs, Lur Wolves, Ents, Trolls.

 

Draining massive creatures can fully replenish the spell slots of multiple necromancers as they probably require multiple people to take down in the first place.  Draining a massive creature to death can fully replenish six necromancers. If the massive creature is drained to the brink of death or has died recently, either three necromancers can be fully replenished, or six necromancers can replenish four spell slots.

Massive creatures are creatures that are above fifteen feet tall, almost always event creatures.

Examples: Dragons, Giant Worms, Scaddernaks, and most impossibly large foes.


 

Draining Plants
 

Draining plants works a little different, as you don’t replenish as much life force, and instead need to drain very large flora or vast swathes of smaller flora to make it worth your time.

 

Draining singular small flowers replenishes no spell slots.

 

Draining small sized flora replenishes 1 spell slot.

Small sized flora consist of things such as vine colonies, small allotments, gardens.

 

Draining medium sized flora replenishes 2 spell slots.

Medium sized flora consist of things such as an entire hedgerow, a grass park, a large cluster of bushes, a small tree, fields of wildflowers.

 

Draining large sized flora replenishes 4 spell slots.

Large sized flora consists of things like great oaks, giant mushrooms, entire fields of crops, large formations of living material sculpted by druids, and any other generally massive plantlife.

 

Life Drain is separated into two spells, touch drain and tether drain, the first is a more potent drain that requires physical contact, and the second is a slower and weaker drain that can be attached and continued at a distance.

 

 

Touch Drain
 

Touch Drain requires a necromancer to summon the hunger of their darkhollow into their hand, and then risk grappling another creature with it.  As a touch drain grips onto its victim it brings about a myriad of debilitating effects that build the longer a victim is drained, making it very tough for the victim to escape the necromancer’s grasp the longer the spell is allowed to take effect.  The entire time the victim experiences a shocking agony that they cannot ignore, like a blade very slowly cutting through their insides.

 

A necromancer only needs to be able to hold onto someone to touch drain them, even whilst they are resisting as the spell is less about mental concentration and more about physical will.  

At tier 2 a necromancer can attempt to drain two separate targets with each hand.

 

Touch Drain requires 5 emotes to fully incapacitate a person at tiers 1, 2 and 3.

Touch Drain requires 4 emotes to fully incapacitate a person at tiers 4 and 5.

 

If a touch drain is stopped near completion (After half the required emotes), it can be resumed again only requiring an additional half duration as long as the target is grappled again.  This is because the amount of emotes represents how long it would take to drain someone’s life completely, and if they are already half dead then it won’t take as long if the necromancer resumes.  If a victim is already half dead from other injuries, then draining them to death requires half the normal amount of emotes, too.

 

The length of time it takes to drain a creature varies on its size.

Minus three emotes for tiny creatures, minus one emote for small creatures.  Add two emotes for large creatures, and consult event staff on the hardiness of massive creatures, otherwise generally add four emotes.  Plants follow the same rules. (See Draining Creatures and Draining Plants above.)

 

Debilitating effects can include:

Loss of vision

Numbness

Crippling of limbs

Hallucinations

Deafness

Vertigo

A struggle to breathe

Sluggishness

Terror

 

(Note these effects are not instant but instead build in intensity during each emote, peaking just before death.)


 

Tether Drain

 

Tether Drain is objectively weaker than the touch drain, though its advantage is being able to safely drain the life from something at a distance, even if it tries to flee from the necromancer.  A tether is a connection between the necromancer’s cycle of life force and their target’s, and the ability to form them comes quite naturally to a necromancer. Unlike Touch Drain, a necromancer must not physically touch their target to establish the tether and instead can will the anchor of their spell to their hand and attach it from a short distance.  Then the necromancer is free to step back and slowly unravel the life force from their victim.

 

At tier 3 a necromancer can create two tethers at once using each hand.

 

This process does not come with any of the debilitating effects of a touch drain and there is little stopping the victim getting up and fleeing out of range of the tether.  The draining is much slower though it is still just as agonising as a touch drain, and a victim should seek to escape the pain at all costs.

A victim can break a tether by running out of its maximum range, tackling the necromancer to the ground, or the tether can be broken by holy magic.  A necromancer’s tether can be applied from up to 5 blocks away and can stay linked up to a range of 15 blocks.

 

If a tether drain is stopped near completion (After more than half the required emotes), it can be resumed again only requiring an additional half duration as long as the tether is reapplied.  This is because the amount of emotes represents how long it would take to drain someone’s life completely, and if they are already half dead then it won’t take as long if the necromancer resumes.  If a victim is already half dead from other injuries, then draining them to death requires half the normal amount of emotes, too.

 

Tether Drain requires 8 emotes to fully incapacitate a person at tiers 1, 2 and 3.

Tether Drain requires 6 emotes to fully incapacitate a person at tiers 4 and 5.

 

The length of time it takes to drain a creature varies on its size.

Minus 3 emotes for tiny creatures, minus 1 emote for small creatures.  Add 2 emotes for large creatures, and consult event staff on the hardiness of massive creatures, otherwise generally add 4 emotes.  Plants follow the same rules. (See Draining Creatures and Draining Plants above.)

 

A necromancer can later learn to create a reverse tether that instead grants life force to others.  (See Reverse Tether spell)

 

A necromancer is required to know Life Drain before they can learn any other necromancy spell.

 

Life Drain has specifically defined amounts for life force (Spell slots) restored upon draining a creature or plant, whether drained partially, fully or after death and whether they are a very small entity, very large one or somewhere inbetween.

 

If a necromancer only drains a creature until near-death, they will restore half the amount of spell slots they normally would for that creature size.  Alternatively, a necromancer can drain a recently deceased body for half of the normal amount of spell slots.

 

Life Drain is split into two spells: A quick and crippling melee drain (Touch Drain) and a slower and more muted ranged drain. (Tether Drain)

 

Touch Drain can only be done with physical contact and quickly grows increasingly hard to escape from as crippling side effects set in, requiring the victim to aggressively try and break free.  

 

Tether Drain creates a magical funnel between the necromancer and a target up to five blocks away letting the necromancer slowly drain them over time though without any additional hindering.  This tether can be broken by tackling a necromancer, cutting it off directly with divine magic, or running out of its fifteen block range.

 

Life Drain always inflicts an unbearable agony against its victim as it viciously tears the life force from them.  Life Drain saps the victims energy over time, so even if a necromancer does not fully drain someone from healthy to dead, they must still roleplay being fatigued and injured.

 

If a necromancer is given a Darkhollow and is not taught Life Drain within three IRL weeks, they can begin to learn on their own through practice.  All other necromancy spells must be taught.

 

Reanimation [Tier 1]

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Reanimation [Tier 1]

 

 

Reanimation is perhaps the most prized tool in a necromancers arsenal.  The ability to raise the dead from their eternal sleep and command them to do your bidding, reanimation can be blissfully simple or very elaborately complex, at the behest of the necromancer.  

 

This spell allows a necromancer to raise a lifeless corpse by simply touching it or by willing it to rise verbally or somatically.  Risen by death, these skeletons and zombies are nothing more than fragments of their past selves, sick with death. These autonomous undead obey commands delivered (verbally at tier 1, through gesture at tier 3 and telepathically at tier 5) by their necromancer and may be ordered individually, in groups, or as a whole.  Different undead may pursue different orders but are limited to the best of their abilities as nigh brainless, automatic undead. They possess basic senses and may process information as a golem may albeit the more complex the task the more likely they are to fail.  

 

Commanding a reanimation to pin an opponent to the ground or to pull back and defend you are relatively simple and easy tasks that the reanimation is unlikely to find issue with, however giving the reanimation a task in which it requires more than its basic capabilities could cause issue.  Examples of this would be telling a reanimation to clear a collapsed tunnel in which they may find themselves too weak alone and need the strength of other reanimations to complete the task, or being told to deliver a message to someone in a neighbouring town, where the reanimation must rely on the knowledge of their necromancer to send them in the right direction. The dead make for durable companions due to the restrictions of mortality being lifted from them but they do not make for swift companions; they are only as strong or swift as the muscle and bone of their living forms.

 

 

Touch Reanimation [Tier one]

 

The standard practice of reanimating the dead, touching a corpse and awakening it through physical contact.

 

At tier 2 a necromancer can touch one corpse with each hand in this manner, and can reanimate up to two corpses at the same time.

 

Touch Reanimation takes:

4 emotes at tier 1 and 2.

3 emotes at tier 3 and 4.

2 emotes at tier 5.


 

Verbal Reanimation [Tier three]

 

Reanimating a corpse verbally takes more time, and involves some sort of phrase or chant beckoning the dead, as you let your Darkhollow speak through you.  With this method you may call out to any and all corpses around you, reanimating them all at once should your life-force reserves allow it.

 

Verbal Reanimation takes:

4 emotes at tier 3 and 4.

3 emotes at tier 5.

 

 

Reanimation spell slot freezing

 

Reanimation does not expend spell slots as normal spells might, instead a necromancer only temporarily lends their life force to the reanimation, and as long as they are active the spell slot is considered frozen and unusable, and is returned upon the reanimation being killed or the spell being cancelled.

 

A necromancer can lend one spell slot to reanimation per tier of necromancy, starting at one and ending at five.

A necromancer can reanimate 4 tiny creatures per spell slot.

A necromancer can reanimate 3 small creatures per spell slot.

A necromancer can reanimate 2 medium creature per spell slot.

A necromancer can reanimate 1 large creature per 2 spell slots.

A necromancer can reanimate 1 massive creature at the cost of 3 spell slots, but 4 necromancers must help raise and control it.

 

(See Life Drain spell for an idea of what each creature size can mean.)

 

Any excess creatures reanimated by branding (See Dark Branding spell) cause older reanimations to become inert if they would exceed the number of reanimations the necromancer can have active at once.

 

A necromancer can craft their own undead abominations to reanimate. (See Fleshsmithing spell) A necromancer is required to know Reanimation before they can learn Fleshsmithing

 

Necromancers can cast other spells, even from other types of magic while controlling a reanimation.  Once a body is raised, it does not require much attention to keep it active, as it has formed a temporary unspoken link with its necromancer.

 

All undead raised by reanimation have a faint glow in their eyes matching the colour of their necromancer’s aura.  When undead are nearby their necromancer their connection is strengthened, and they become more resilient to feats of holy flame or purging light, albeit not immune.  It takes 2 emotes longer to vanquish an undead medium sized or smaller, and 4 emotes longer to vanquish an undead large sized or bigger. (Reduced with multiple spellcasters vanquishing the undead)  This effect is only present when an undead is within ten blocks of their necromancer.

 

A necromancer is required to know Life Drain before they can learn Reanimation.

 

Reanimations are undead and are vulnerable to divine magic by nature, however their bond with their necromancer is strengthened if within five blocks of them in which case they boast a slightly higher resistance to such magic.

 

Reanimations temporarily borrow a spell slot from a necromancer while they are reanimated and this spell slot is freed up when the reanimation is made dormant again or is killed.  If a necromancer reanimates a creature when all of their spell slots are frozen, a currently active reanimation will fall inert to make space.

 

A necromancer can cast spells while controlling a reanimation.

 

Reanimations can be reanimated quickly by touch (At tier 1) or slightly slower at range. (At tier 3) 

 

Reanimations do not need to be puppeteered step by step, action by action and can be given commands to follow, which if not too ridiculous they will do.  If no commands are given they will instinctively follow and defend their necromancer.  Reanimations can be active far away from a necromancer, though cannot be given new commands unless nearby.

 

Reanimations can be commanded verbally (At tier 1), by gestures (At tier 3) or telepathically (At tier 5)

 

Necromancers can reanimate all different shapes and sizes of creature.  Anything with flesh or bone can be reanimated and necromancers can create their own gruesome reanimations to be risen with Fleshsmithing. (See Fleshsmithing.)  The largest of creatures requires multiple necromancers to control at once. 

 

What a necromancer can reanimate is limited by his maximum and available spell slots.

 

Reanimations are brainless undead with no real personality, resembling feral monsters more than the remains of people.

 

Humanoid reanimations or fleshsmithed reanimations that loosely resemble humanoid features like their limbs can effectively wield weapons, though depending on their frames may not be able to effectively wield different types of armour.  Simple descendant skeletons do not have enough strength to equip full sets of platemail armour, but bigger bulkier undead creations may have.

 

Vivification [Tier 2]

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Vivication [Tier 2]

 

 

Awakening fragments of a being deep within mortals, a necromancer may return consciousness to a fresh corpse, lay a curse, or temporarily convert themselves into a ghoulish figure.

 

By reaching deep into the fleeing lifeforce of a corpse, a fresh cadaver whose soul is wandering from their body and their juices split, a necromancer may touch on the empty shell left behind and awaken a looming darkness within; a body may be temporarily roused from death, returning a fragment of their consciousness back into their body provided their skull is intact, and from it their disembodied voice may return. So long as the necromancer maintains their black sorcery, constantly draining them of lifeforce, they may take up a conversation with the newly lost. The longer the talk, the more lifeforce is consumed, and quick talk serves most efficient.

 

Vivified corpses cannot learn any new information to carry on to their next life should they be revived by the Monks nor do they remember any part of the conversation. The process of being risen briefly as shattered parcel of a soul is an excruciating thing and the time spent risen is agonizing for corpse’s soul; thus it is often found that corpses spew the truth to appease their interrogators so that they may be spared further suffering.  However lying to satiate a necromancer’s questioning is also common, and a necromancer cannot force specific information out of someone, only pry.

 

A necromancer can converse for 12 full emotes (Each for the interrogator and corpse) per spell slot.  The corpse must speak roughly one full sentence at least to be counted as a full emote. The conversation can be extended by a further 12 full emotes for one spell slot each time.  The corpse cannot ask questions in return, and it cannot procure ideas of its own, only provide information, true or false. A dead person awoken in this way suffers excruciating pain, and is therefor incentivised to speak the truth.

 

A necromancer that can learn Vivication can also learn Feign Death.


 

Feign Death [Tier 3]

 

In the same manner of awakening a corpse, a necromancer may awaken a temporary darkness in themself. Akin to welcoming a phantom into one's body for possession or holding one's breath underwater, the necromancer casting this spell of false death loses control of their body and becomes disfigured as a corpse may; fresh and pale, rotten and wormeaten, or bare and skeletal, a necromancer may appear in any way the dead may and play as them too. Mimicking a corpse is a constantly draining matter and with it the longer the spell is cast the more lifeforce is drained.

 

A necromancer does not have much control of their body when they are in this state, the most they can do is whisper/mumble, try and roll their bodies over, or slowly crawl.  If they are not moving, the necromancer appears dead by all accounts, and does not feel the pain of any injuries inflicted to him during this time, though he is aware of them.  They will feel all pain inflicted upon them at once upon cancelling the spell, which they can do freely at any time during it.

 

Casting Feign Death allows the necromancer to play dead for 20 minutes per spell slot expended.  This means a necromancer could potentially continue playing dead for 2 hours if they really wished to.

 


A necromancer is required to know Reanimation before they can learn Vivification.

 

Vivication allows the necromancer to force a body to rise and speak to them, giving the opportunity to interrogate the dead in a process that is excruciating to the temporarily revived entity.

 

Someone brought back by Vivication would want the suffering being caused to end as quickly as possible, making them likely to say anything to make it stop.  They are never forced to speak the truth however, and can both speak truth or lies to try and sate their interrogator.

 

Vivication lasts a small amount of time, spanning a short conversation.

 

Vivication allows a necromancer to temporarily feign death, appearing as if they died long ago to passersby.  In this state they can crawl very slowly and simply whisper but can see and hear what is happening.

 

 

Stagnation [Tier 3]

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Stagnation [Tier 3]

 

 

The bane of life is not a force that a necromancer might control, instead it is a force that they might simply give a helpful push in the right direction.  Stagnation is twisting lifeforce into antithetical, all-consuming disease that devours lifeforce with a hunger more ravenous than a necromancer’s own.

 

Lifeforce can be made stagnant within an area, preventing the natural ebb and flow of the recycled energy and creating a miniature vacuum in which no lifeforce may flow, to this end the land becomes inhospitable in that the land seems "poisoned" or "sick", rather than desolate and ultimately broken, stilling the lifeforce inside mortals that pass through it and slowly sapping them of their vigor and inevitably killing them should they linger.  If left to Its own devices this divide can expand and prevent the spread of lifeforce beyond Its origin point in a creeping wave of destruction and if not pushed back and brought back into flow by a Farseer or Druid this stagnation can continue to expand.

 

Stagnation occurs when a necromancer touches a piece of flora, imbuing the lifeforce within with his will and bringing it to a stand still. This stilled lifeforce is modeled after the Abyss, a clot in the veins of the natural flow of lifeforce that if left unchecked will grow largely by feeding on the lifeforce of plants nearby or those trying to grow.  Stagnation finds difficulty in spreading through land with little flora, and spreads far slower where there is no lush plant life. This stagnation leads to rot and decay as all living beings within the Stagnation cannot pass lifeforce from use or death, and as such the land begins to adapt to the strange limbo in place in extreme ways that sometimes match the climate, whether that be transforming river valleys into barren smog-filled wastes or wetlands into gnarled hellish mires.

 

It is often times that to stagnate an expanse of land is to turn it into something much unlike something as simple as a barren, fog-choked wasteland; to understand the formation of the land that is being stagnated in the first place is to understand how stagnation shall be interpreted in that location. If one were to stagnate a field, it may grow into miles and miles of cracked earth and rolling black fog-- lifeless at first glance, but only kept on a standstill. On the same note, one may stagnate a grand woodland addled with streams and rivers, and then return in the next decade to find that it has malformed into a twisted, festering landscape where the water is clogged with a sickly blackness, nested in by creatures that feed upon the blood and filth of the living, and where organic matter does not grow, but rather is subjected to the poisons present in the earth. Both examples are two sides of the same coin -- life had taken a standstill and the effects on the world varied, but were ultimately the same.

 

Unlike most other spells which can be wielded with more ease at greater skill in necromancy, Stagnation is an alien and uncontrollable force that even a master necromancer could not wield accurately or even withstand the devastation it may cause. They are merely capable of putting the effect into motion.  Stagnation can be a risky tool for necromancers to use, as whilst stagnant land is barren and those that linger in stagnated lands for too long experience bouts of sickness and may gain diseases correlated with filth or waste much easier, as well as develop forms of cancers (the heavier presence of Lifeforce in the air sticks to living bodies, inciting cancerous growth), a necromancer’s control over life force is throttled there and takes longer to utilise as life force does not properly flow.

 

When using Stagnation, the necromancer creates stagnant land in a 10 block radius around them, which slowly begins sapping the life indiscriminately from anything in the area, even necromancers.  Stagnant land can spread outward in a further 10 block radius every IRL day until cleansed or until it reaches a radius of 30 blocks. Another necromancer can create an adjacent area of stagnant land to help cover a larger area.

 

Stagnation requires 2 spell slots to cast and takes 3 emotes to put into effect, and a further 10 minutes for the stagnant land to span its initial 10 block radius.  Stagnant land makes plants appear dead and barren, and can be reflected in Minecraft with the assistance of a GM or permission of those who control the land.

 

In the event that a necromancer deliberately or accidentally stagnates the land which other necromancers call home, 3 necromancers that are capable of casting Stagnation can come together near the epicentre of the stagnant land, where the withering is the most concentrated and kickstart start the flow of life force in the area.  This is the only way stagnant land can be reversed without the help of a Farseer or Druid.

 

A necromancer is required to know Life Drain before they can learn Stagnation.

 

Necromancers can put in motion a ravaging of the land that slowly distorts any life in the area.  This causes things not to live or die correctly, causing both to happen in strange and horrible ways.  

 

Living creatures begin to form tumors and cancers and many other manners of growths and ailments when lingering in Stagnant Land.

 

Plantlife in these areas can change in a large variety of ways mostly up to the necromancer who cast the spell though it is recommended that the changes to the land reflect the climate and environment of the land.  Bountiful fields grow barren, wetlands sink into infested mires and jungles begin growing into labyrinths full of twisted poisonous flora. Life force in the area cannot flow properly and often congeals as thin rolling fog, or adding a musty red tinge to the air.

 

Stagnation has a cooldown of one week per necromancer.

 

Stagnant Land slowly expands in a crawl and if left unchecked can be a real problem.  Druids and Shamans can heal the Stagnant Land but only to their limit, stagnant land can be continuously added to with more casts of the spell.  Necromancers can also undo the spell cast by themselves or other necromancers, with the aid of two others.

 

Necromancy takes twice as long to cast in Stagnant Land with the exception of the ability to regress the Stagnant Land.

 

 

 

Afflictions [Tier 3]

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Afflictions [Tier Three]

 

 

Afflictions are clumps of corrupted life force that have been carefully treated by a necromancer in order to achieve certain disease-like qualities. It spreads and tears up lifeforce in specific mannerisms that usually lead to deformities, degradation or the general breakdown of someone's well being.

 

Among the most vile sorceries of necromancy are afflictions. A skill birthed out of vicious ire, Afflictions serve as the necromancer’s lasting touch, a foulness that they might subject others to with prolonged touch or through the use of cursed objects. The necromancer begins by befouling a portion of their own lifeforce and applying it either onto an object, a food, beverage, or upon the victim themselves. The necromancer twists the life force that they produced and cause it to take on disease-like qualities such as boils, tumors, respiratory/circulatory damage and the like.

 

A necromancer can apply an affliction to any small object, food or drink item, small body of water, or to a living creature directly.  

 

If applied to an object, the affliction will spread only to those that touch the object and will cause dizziness that builds over the duration as well as a difficulty to concentrate and listen to others.  By time the affliction has reached its apex, those afflicted will struggle to stand or walk without falling over, and be constantly overpowered by a ringing in their ear and thumping in their head.

 

If applied to food or drink, the affliction will spread upon consumption and will cause those who consumed the food or drink to experience nausea and a great hunger.  By time the affliction has reached its apex, those afflicted will feel the urge to vomit constantly, as well as a terrible pain in their stomach and seemingly unending hunger.  

 

If applied to a small body of water, the affliction will spread upon contact with the water and will cause those that made contact with it to experience itching as boils and pustules begin to form all over the body and a constant coughing.  By time the affliction reaches its apex, those afflicted will be driven crazy with the urge to scratch their itching body all over so hard that may inflict harm to themselves, as well as having a spluttering cough so hoarse they can barely talk or breathe.

 

If applied directly to a person, the affliction will spread from that person to anybody that this person touches.  This type of affliction is perhaps the most deadly, and hardest to control, though takes considerable amount of time to cast, and requires having someone grappled.  The target of the spell, or ‘Patient zero’ is somewhat resistant to the effects of the affliction and whilst still suffers from them will take much longer to die from them; a twisted property existing only to prolong their existence so that they may spread the disease as much as possible.  Those afflicted by this feel a growing numbness over their entire body, and a more concentrated sapping of their energy as their very skin begins to rot and decay. By time this affliction reaches its apex, the afflicted cannot feel their body and most of their skin has begun to blacken and some is starting to peel off, revealing disgusting dead tissue underneath.  The afflicted by this time also lack much energy to get up and get on with their lives, relying on others to help them, despite the risk of exposing them too.

 

Creating an affliction takes 1 spell slot to cast.

 

It takes 2 emotes to create an affliction and 1 more to apply it.

If applying an affliction to a living creature directly, they must be grappled and it takes 1 more emote.

 

Due to Afflictions not being real biological diseases and being nothing but perverted life force, the Darkhollow of a necromancer rejects afflictions, making them immune.

 

The afflictions listed here are basic staple afflictions that all necromancers can perform.  At tier 5, a necromancer can begin to try and engineer his own diseases to be a way more specific in how they spread and how extreme their effects are. These require an MArt.  Once approved, the disease can be reproduced whenever the Necromancer wishes at the cost of 3 spell slots.

 

A necromancer is required to know Life Drain before they can learn Afflictions.

 

Afflictions allow necromancers to create diseases to spread to other players.  These diseases can be spread through touching objects, through the air, through water and food sources, through contact from person to person.

 

Afflictions can be cured by any healing magic as they are organic in nature.

 

Afflictions listed here are solid example diseases for students of necromancy to learn and use, though at tier 5 necromancers can spend time engineering their own unique diseases that they must make an MArt for.  Once made, this disease becomes a signature creation of theirs and can be applied with all of the parameters agreed upon in the MArt.

 

Afflictions can persist for up to 2 weeks.  This can be extended by another 2 weeks by each additional necromancer that aids in creating the affliction, up to a maximum of 2 months.  Over this duration the symptoms of the afflicted grow stronger and stronger, reaching an apex after 1 IRL week. If the object that was originally afflicted is destroyed, all the afflicted food and drink consumed, the afflicted body of water emptied or dried, or the prime target of the disease dies, the affliction cannot spread further as it is considered gone.  Afflictions can also by purged from their bound sources and the victims of the disease can be healed with any healing magic (Includes alchemy).

 

Necromancers are immune to Afflictions.

 

 

Cursing [Tier 3]

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Cursing [Tier 3]

 

 

A curse is a wretched thing, a hex laid upon the living so they may suffer and nothing more. They are the product of a soul being targeted within a living body outside the dark origins of the necromancer’s own signature, allowing for curses to be engineered in others down to fine details.  

 

A curse is set on an individual much like an affliction, though Its purposes are more specifically destructive.  Rather than cause disease-like growths like an affliction, the effects of a curse are much more magical and dark.  Curses differ from afflictions in their diversity, causing a mystical blindness, impotence, it may instill an urge to throw oneself off high places, or attack human children to name some examples.  

 

 

Cursing Methods

 

There are five ways to curse someone.

 

Touch [Tier 3]: Cursing someone by touch is the fastest albeit most dangerous way to curse someone.  A necromancer must first touch their victim and spend a two further emotes weaving the curse into them whilst still holding on to them.  

 

Object [Tier 3]: Cursing a unique and significant item causes the effects of the curse to affect those who touch the item or carry it with them and for a short period after. (Two IRL days.)  Cursing an object simply requires a necromancer to make contact with the object and weave the curse into it for two emotes. Cursing weapons using this method does not cause the weapon to inflict the curse to those it strikes, as the curse treats the strikes as any regular object and only passes on the curse to those that carry it around or hold it for a while.  Bone weapons made from the necromancy spell Bonesmithing can do this however. (See below.)

 

Chant [Tier 4]: Cursing someone through spoken word, in a spiteful lash of the tongue.  This allows a necromancer to curse someone without having to touch them by reciting curses in black speech.  This is the hardest method of cursing, and can be cast as long as you can see the target at the time you begun casting, and as long as they are within range to hear you for the remainder of the chant.  It takes five emotes to curse someone through a chant.

 

Bonesmithed Weapon [Tier 4]: A necromancer can imbue a dark enchantment onto a weapon crafted by the necromancy spell Bone Smithing. (See Fleshsmithing spell) Similar to cursing other objects, any bone weapon can have a curse placed on them by taking them and spending three emotes weaving a curse into it.  Curses applied in this manner are far weaker and more finite than on regular objects. The curse on a weapon is short lived and only lasts until it curses its first three victims, which happens when the weapon successfully inflicts a flesh wound upon the target victim, causing the curse to transfer hosts through the opened wound. A cursed bone weapon festers with a thick coat of glowing black motes, making it clear to identify.

 

Bond [Tier 5]: To curse someone through a bond is to form a connection between yourself and a part of your target.  This requires either something of extreme emotional importance to them (Family heirloom, treasured circlet, etc.) or a small piece of the target themselves. (Clump of hair, trickle of blood, torn bit of flesh, etc.)  The target is now subject to being able to be cursed by the necromancer any time, and almost anywhere. As long as the target is within the same city/settlement as you, the same province as you, or within a few hundred blocks of you if none of those two apply, the curse can take hold.  If the curse does take hold, the item used to bind the curse to them is inert and cannot be used again if it is an organic piece of the person, if it is an item of significance to them, that same item cannot be used again for another IRL month. Cursing in this manner takes two emotes to take effect, as the difficulty in this method is gathering the item in which to bind with the target, from them.



 

Types of Curses

 

Lesser Physical Curses [Tier 3]

Curses that irritate and inconvenience the body, they are by no means minor but are not potent enough in their own right to cause serious or lethal harm to a person.

 

Costs 1 spell slot

 

Examples of lesser physical curses:

Sore muscles or joints

Lack of coordination

Off balancing

Dulling of senses

Nosebleeds, headaches, blisters, swelling, bruising

Overheating and sweating

Absolutely freezing and shivering

Numbness

Physical slowness and grogginess

Hair loss

 

Lesser Mental Curses [Tier 3]

Curses that irritate and inconvenience the mind, they are by no means minor but are not potent enough in their own right to cause serious or lethal harm to a person.

 

Costs 1 spell slot

 

Examples of lesser mental curses:

Doubt

Arrogance

Hyper positivity, or negativity

Saying the first thing that comes to mind

Scattered hearing, people appearing to repeat themselves

Perceiving the world too bright or dark

Failure to retain new information for long

 

Greater Physical Curses [Tier 4]

Curses that viciously attack the body, they are crippling and often lethal.

 

Costs 2 spell slots

 

Examples of greater physical curses:

Blindness

Deafness

Feeling physically unable to move your own weight

Paralysis of limbs

Sheer agony

Organ failure

Hypothermia or hyperthermia

Intense muscle spasms, seizures

Asphyxiation

Brittle skeleton

 

Greater Mental Curses [Tier 4]

Curses that viciously attack the mind, they are crippling and often lethal.

 

Costs 2 spell slots

 

Examples of greater mental curses:

Paranoia

Inability to trust

Depression

Hallucinations

Illusions of grandeur

Cannibalism

Crippling fear

Night terrors

Isolation

Uncontrollable laughter

Memory loss

 

Dark Curses [Tier 5]

Sweet, dark nothings urging a tortured soul towards destruction.

 

Costs 3 spell slots

 

Dark curses are curses that are more magical in nature, and can only be applied through bond.  They can be much more specific, as they appeal to the dark core of a person to try and push them into certain acts, or even temporarily sap the victim of important traits or abilities as long as the curse is active.

 

Dark curses try to wrap a victim in their web, and convince or trick them into doing something terrible.  For example, a dark curse could be a whisper in the back of someone’s mind urging them to carelessly fall from a great height, or it could compel the victim to attack his loved ones.  Vague compulsions like the examples here are standard curses, but more complex curses may require MArts, so a necromancer can sign a curse as his own.

 

A very specific dark curse would be something along the lines of being unable to ignore the urge to try and infiltrate a highly protected building in search of a specific significant item, something as specific and complex as this requires an MArt.  

 

A dark curse can also act to take something away from the cursed individual, for example sapping someone of their intellect, or that they specifically forget how to use a bow and arrow properly, or preventing them from casting any fire evocation spells.  Such potent and specifically doctored curses require MArts in order to be used.

 

A cursed individual becomes aware that they are cursed a few hours after they were cursed.  It is not obvious to others that someone is cursed unless they specialise in the magic necessary to remove a curse, or are a necromancer.  The exception is when someone is cursed with a dark curse, they magically emit a thin, nearly missable veil of black smoke around them. When affected with a dark curse, the victim is aware that the thoughts and urges they are having are not their own, although that does not help the struggle to resist them, and it should be a real battle not to give in.

 

A necromancer is required to know Vivication before they can learn Cursing

 

A curse has different types.  Physical curses affect the body, mental curses affect the mind and dark curses try to convince a victim to do something they don’t want to, or sap a very specific power or ability temporarily from them.  

 

Necromancers can create their own unique curses through MArts at Tier 5, these curses can be very detailed and can target specific strengths of a person, like their ability to cast a certain spell or their dexterity.  

 

Curses can persist for up to 2 IRL weeks.  Multiple necromancers can aid in casting the same curse, extending its duration by another 2 weeks per necromancer up to a total of 2 IRL months.

Dark curses cannot be extended, and can last maximum 2 weeks.

 

Magical healing can purge all necromancy curses.  A necromancer can spend 1 spell slot to snuff out the remaining life force in a curse and end it prematurely, whether the curse was upon themselves, an object, or someone else.

 

Necromancers can curse special weapons made of bone that’s curses last until the weapon has struck three victims, these curses only function when the weapon is wielded by a necromancer.

 

 

Fleshsmithing [Tier 4]

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Fleshsmithing [Tier 4]

 

Sculpting flesh like dough and bone like clay to mold a truly horrific abomination which may be risen.

   

Imagination is the limit. An artist may breathe life into the inanimate to create beautiful pieces of visual delights and in the same way an experienced necromancer may too in a macabre fashion. By treating flesh with saturating blankets of lifeforce, flesh, muscle, sinew, and tissue may become soft like wet clay and soupy so ready hands may push and pull the biomass into shape. Extensive study of anatomy is required lest a necromancer form a pathetic, quivering heap of skin and boundless muscle with no functionality and no purpose. The same can be done to bone, warping it into a doughy consistency so it may be structured and sculpted into horrific frames and skeletons. However, living material cannot be sculpted nor shaped, the moving lifeforce within too deep in its own current. Such an attempt is a spell known as cauterizing. (See Cauterizing under necromancy Spells)

 

Fleshsmithing is where necromancers get to become very creative, as this spell allows them to essentially craft their own zombies or skeletons to use later for reanimation.  These are most often called abominations, as they generally don’t look too pretty. Fleshsmithing takes a lot longer to perfect than most other necromancy spells, as creating stable and threatening monsters requires the necromancer to have a decent understanding of the anatomy of what creature he is creating, or further yet a more vast array of knowledge if they were to attempt to create their own unique design.  Taking a long time to truly master, a necromancer will see many broken, twitching husks and piles of zombie goop before his days are done, just like all those that came before him.

 

Bone, flesh, muscle, sinew and most other organic matter that might be a part of a living creature can woven into a creation.  A necromancer must gently release soft waves of life force over the organic matter constantly as he works, this oversaturation of life force changes the properties of the material, making it temporarily more malleable and allowing someone to then sculpt it, and sculpt they must.  Whilst a necromancer’s magic helps with the push and pull of flesh, they must take the grotesque muck in their hands and shape it like clay, until they have made rise to a creation all their own.

 

Fleshsmithing has multiple applications.  It can be used to create zombies and skeletons for reanimation, it can be used to make your own unique grotesque creation to be reanimated.  It can be used to make modifications to existing undead (Player undead and reanimation undead) and it can also make repairs to them if they are damaged.  It can also be used to make lifelike suits of muscle and flesh for transcendent (playable) undead. Fleshsmithing is not something that is done in combat, it is something that is done far away from prying eyes, in a place a necromancer has peace to work.  It takes a long time, and requires the necromancer to return to their work multiple times before it is complete. Because of this, fleshsmithing doesn’t have really specific time parameters on how long it takes to fleshsmith, only vague ones, because fleshsmithing is a craft and not a means of combat and its focal point is the enjoyment and creativity of the player.

 

 

The different types of Fleshsmithing:

 

Repairing and modification

 

Repairing an undead’s minor wounds only takes 3 of emotes, but more severe damage like missing limbs, destroyed torsos, large amounts of missing flesh can take upwards of 6 emotes.  These factor in having to shape new material onto the creature, simply reattaching the arm it lost doesn’t take long at all if it brought the arm back with it, for example, as you won’t need to sculpt a new one.  

 

Modifying an undead allows a necromancer to add on to already existing creations, giving them things like sharp bone claws, or razor sharp teeth.  If the undead is a playable undead (Darkstalker, Lich), then the modifications are pretty limited and cannot change the creature very far beyond their original blueprint.  The examples listed above would be fine, but things like adding extra limbs is restricted to non playable corpses used for reanimation. Modifying an undead also does not take very long, simple allowing for time to sculpt small changes onto the undead.  Small modifications take 3 emotes, and larger modifications like extra limbs take upwards of 6 emotes.

 

Repairing and modifying undead expends a spell slot.  If the undead is a playable undead, a necromancer will often heavily drain the undead before operating on them as payment for their work, as they ultimately replenish a spell slot overall.


 

Creating Undead

 

Creating undead takes much longer and is quite an RP heavy process.  If a necromancer creates a common creature, or rather, something that he can be very familiar with its make-up, then it takes the standard amount of time.  If a necromancer creates a rare or otherwise unique creature of their own design, it takes twice as long. This however allows for almost limitless combinations and possibilities.  

 

Creating tiny creatures takes one emote if familiar or common, two if custom or rare.

Creating small creatures takes two emotes if familiar or common, four if custom or rare.

Creating medium creatures takes four emotes if familiar or common, eight if custom or rare.

Creating large creatures takes eight emotes if familiar or common, sixteen if custom or rare.

Creating massive creatures takes place over three separate days, using four necromancers, requiring ten emotes each day per necromancer.  

(See Drain Life under Necromancy Spell List for examples of each creature size type.)

 

If you create the same unique custom creation three times you become familiar with it, and can create it at a normal speed.  Rare creatures always take twice as long to replicate, regardless of familiarity.

 

You can create four tiny creatures per spell slot, two small creatures per spell slot, one medium creature per spell slot, one large creature per two spell slots, and a massive creature requires three spell slots from every necromancer.  If after a session of roleplay you only create one small or tiny creature, your spell slot is expended regardless.


 

Life Force Crystallization

 

With Fleshsmithing giving a necromancer much finer control over flesh and bone it also allows a necromancer to concentrate life force into a hard and crystalline substance.  This material, used for phylacteries of old, can be shaped into hard black crystal that better conducts the flow of life force in an area when sculpted into a tall pillar.  This has three applications: Allowing the creation of Liches and Darkstalkers through the Sacrament of Transcendence, allowing the creation of flesh suits and finally its ability to strengthen undead in an area.

 

A necromancer needs to spend 2 emotes crystallizing their life force per block of crystalline life force they wish to make, spending 1 spell slot per block.  A functional pillar requires 3 blocks of crystalline life force to function and these pillars must be represented by coal blocks. These pillars are hard crystal but can be slowly destroyed with a large warhammer or a similar tool.

 

The area of effect of a pillar of crystalline life force is a 10 block radius by default (At 3 blocks tall), a 20 block radius at 4 blocks tall and a 30 block radius at 5 blocks tall.

 

To create liches, darkstalkers one of these pillars must be present to allow the life force to flow well enough to stitch their broken souls together.  

 

A pillar of crystalline life force will strengthen any undead near them, causing them to become more resistant to gold weaponry or divine magic, causing these sources to deal damage like that of standard weaponry or evocation magic against the undead when within effective radius of the pillar, based on its size..  This allows undead creatures to have the upper hand against invaders when in their own territory.

 

Crystalline life force pillars cannot be used to store life force.

 

 

Creating Fleshsuits

 

With Fleshsmithing a Necromancer may learn to craft entire suits of flesh and muscle intended to be worn like clothing atop the bones of transcendent undead, which means any playable undead creature that has a skeletal form.  Creating these suits is a very long and meticulous process, as they are intended to appear very close to life-like in every regard. They are by no means perfect however.

 

Fleshsuits can be crafted separate from the undead intended to use it and then fitted, or created literally around them although that would require them to be dormant for a very long time.  The creation of a fleshsuit spans multiple days, rivalling even the time needed to craft the largest of creatures via fleshsmithing, simply because of how delicate and precise the task of creating a life-like body is.  Though craftsmanship alone is not enough to build a convincing body, a necromancer will need a stable supply of flesh and muscle to create the fleshsuit, they will also need to craft it in proximity of a pillar of crystalline life force’s effective radius, which will help lace the flesh with the strength of life.  A necromancer must also feed his own power into fleshsuit when finally placing it on the undead to imbue it with the lifeforce needed to sell a realistic body.

 

Crafting a Fleshsuit takes place over 2 days, requiring an allotment of RP each day that consists of:
Treating fleshy materials with life force to make them malleable
Sculpting them into the humanoid silhouette of the undead it is intended for

Aligning correct muscle, sinew and shaping the more intricate details of the body

 

Finally when the body is complete, attach a reverse tether and feed life force into the body to prime it with final lifelike qualities.  (Costs 3 spell slots)

 

Fleshsuits are crafted specifically to act as a disguise for undead and look as lifelike as possible.  This goal is only so achievable, however, and whilst the finished product does look pretty convincing, there are always signs that something isn’t completely right with someone who is wearing a fleshsuit.  Their will be imperfections, first up, small dimples, slight misreactions or slow movement in facial muscles, like when smiling, or having dishevelled and dead wiry looking hair and beards. When looking closely the eyes may look sullen, or teeth crooked or jagged, or even a strange limp may accompany them, though their skin does not necessarily look too damaged other than some slight markings or bruisings, at least not right away.  For these bodies do, like all things dying, slowly decay.

 

The body will hold relatively well for about 1 IRL month until it shows and worrying signs of disrepair, though at that point it will begin to smell terribly of rotting flesh and the skin itself will begin to flake away and grow sallow and discoloured.  It would become obvious for anyone that took a close look at you that you were either alarmingly diseased, or something unsightly. During this time the undead can return to a necromancer and have the fleshsuit revitalised and repaired. 2 weeks after that entire layers of flesh will begin to peel and fall off, exposing some of the bare bone beneath, this is the undead’s last chance to get the fleshsuit repaired.  After a further 2 weeks the undead reaches the end of the second month of having their fleshsuit at which point it completely falls apart, being unable to be stitched back together and needing a new one be crafted (Which likely won’t look the same as the first one.)

 

It only takes half the original time to repair a fleshsuit if it is not completely ruined and only costs the necromancer 1 spell slot. The repair must still have taken place in the proximity of a pillar of crystalline life force and its effective radius.

 

When wearing a fleshsuit, the magic binding it to the undead carries with it a more realistic sensation of feeling.  They can see more vividly, they can smell, taste, and more importantly; bleed. Whilst wearing a fleshsuit an undead can feel the cut of normal weaponry upon his flesh, and whilst wounds from this sort of weaponry to the undead’s flesh alone can not kill him as it would a mortal man, it can still damage the flesh suit and risk revealing their true nature.  This fleshsuit can still be repaired if taken back to a necromancer. Undead are no stronger or weaker while wearing a fleshsuit than they were before putting it on and still hold all the same strengths and weaknesses. If an undead is killed while wearing a fleshsuit, it is considered destroyed and a brand new fleshsuit must be crafted with fleshsmithing.

 

A necromancer is required to know Reanimation before they can learn Fleshsmithing. (Requires Reverse Tether to create Flesh Suits)


Fleshsmithing allows necromancers to craft their own creations out of flesh and bone that can be risen and used in reanimation.  This allows a large amount of creativity and variety in the undead creatures they can make.

 

Fleshsmithed creatures must adhere to the general strength of other creatures of their size bracket that can be reanimated. (See reanimation spell) A large fleshsmithed creature can only be as strong as another large creature, etc.  They may have one specific strength but must have sufficient weaknesses to offset them.  I.E  Gaining quickness in exchange for physical strength.

 

Fleshsmithing also allows a necromancer to repair and make modifications to reanimations or player undead.

 

Fleshsmithing must be roleplayed out and is not possible in combat, small creatures take the shortest amount of time to create and the largest creatures require multiple necromancers to craft.

 

Fleshsmithing cannot be performed on the living, that is a separate spell called Cauterizing.

 

A necromancer can create a pillar of crystalline life force that can strengthen undead in a proximity around it, causing them to resist golden weaponry and divine magic as if it were steel blades and regular evocations while in the area, this pillar is required for creating fleshsuits and Liches/darkstalkers.

 

A necromancer can create a fleshsuit with fleshsmithing materials when within the proximity of a life force pillar.  A fleshsuit can be worn by a Lich or Darkstalker to act as a lifelike disguise.  This aims to replace the Draught of Incite.

 

Undead keep all of their same strengths and weaknesses while wearing a fleshsuit, although they get the ability to feel sensation.

 

A fleshsuit decays over time before needing repaired, losing its lifelike qualities over a month, have flesh rot off of the bone after a month and a half, and completely falling apart after two months.  

 

If a fleshsuit is damaged in combat or decays it can be repaired by a necromancer.  If the suit collapses entirely or the undead dies while wearing it, it cannot be repaired and must be recreated entirely. This is intended to replace the function of the draught of incite.

 

Bone Smithing [Tier 4]

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Bonesmithing [Tier 4]

 

Whilst Fleshsmithing deals with the creation of creatures for the purposes of reanimation, necromancers can use the power to shape organic matter and restrict themselves to only dealing with bone in what is called Bonesmithing.

 

Bonesmithing is the act of using necromancy to turn mortal remains into varied forms of weaponry and even armor fashioned from the bones of the dead.  Like the flesh utilised in Fleshsmithing, this bone is treated with lifeforce making it malleable and easy to mould into swords or chestplates, though once set they are brittle and easy to destroy.

 

As it stands, bonesmithed weapons are the basic armaments a necromancer may produce so they themselves may have tools for the sake of self-defense. They are fashioned completely from mortal bones, and tempered with their magics to be lightweight enough for them to be used by necromancers themselves, who cannot muster the strength to wield standard weaponry crafted in basic metallurgy methods. The true strength of bonesmithed weapons does not fall under the fact that they are lightweight, for their organic constitution makes them brittle and far more fragile, better suited to be fashioned into spears and daggers; it is what can be imbued upon these bone-fashioned armaments that truly makes them a danger in the hands of necromancers.

 

A necromancer can use bonesmithed weaponry as a special method of applying curses to people, as curses cannot be applied to normal weaponry outside of it functioning like a normal cursed heirloom.  Only Lesser Curses can be cast upon bonesmithed weaponry. The weapon will curse the first target it manages to successfully wound, and then the curse will fade, only having a single use each time. (See Cursing Methods under Cursing under Necromancy Spell List) Whilst bonesmithed weapons can be wielded by anyone, only a necromancer can actually utilise the curse imbued on the weapon, as the power of the curse becomes inert in the hands of anyone else.

 

Bonesmithed armour on the other hand provides necromancers with a cheap alternative to chain or leather armour.  Its true effectiveness lies in its protection for typically frail necromancers and their creations. Necromancers themselves can adorn bonesmithed armour without inhibiting their ability to cast magic.  Additionally, whereas Darkstalkers cannot wear substantially heavy metal armor without sacrificing their natural speed and agility, they can receive defense nearing that of plate (although drastically falling short) due to its lightweight nature and brittle durability. Bonesmithed armour is more capable than chain or leather, though it is brittle and easily compromised.  While it is effective against slash and puncturing attacks, it is not resilient and repeated blows by a capable swordsman will cause its brittle shape to crack and crumble. It is weak to crushing attacks from blunt or heavy weaponry.

 

Bonesmithed weaponry is lightweight, allowing Necromancers to capably wield it, though it is brittle and will easily break.  This includes two handed bonesmithed weaponry and bows.   Whilst brittle, the weaponry is still made from solid bone and a bonesmithed sword will not break simply from stabbing through flesh a few times, however if met by any real resistance, like trying to pierce through armour, the weaponry will shatter.

 

Bonesmithed armour can provide a necromancer real tangible protection against blows, though not many.   A chestplate made of bone may fully absorb the damage from a sword, though the sword may only have to strike a few times to completely shatter it. Bonesmithed armour is a little more resilient to small weapons that aim to slash or pierce and can survive about three strikes before breaking, however any blunt weapons or large weapons like a mace or a greataxe would easily decimate the armour in a single blow.

 

A one handed bonesmithed weapon requires 1 spell slot to create, two handed weapons require 2.

A single piece of bonesmithed armour like a chestplate or a helmet requires 1 spell slot to create, a full set of armour requires 2.

 

Similar to fleshsmithing, creating bone weapons and armour involves treating a piece of bone with layers of lifeforce and shaping it into a form that can be wielded or worn. Bonesmithing has no specific emote count required to do, just that the necromancer roleplays crafting their weapon or amour.

 

A necromancer that has been taught the Sacrament of Transcendence from a Gravelord and is capable of creating Darkstalkers can fashion a weapon uniquely tailored to them through a process called Abyssforging.

 

A necromancer is required to know Fleshsmithing before they can learn its sub-process Bonesmithing.

 

Necromancers can craft weapons and armour out of bone in a sub-process of the Fleshsmithing spell known as Bonesmithing.

 

Bone weapons and armour are light and easy to use by a necromancer but are very brittle when met with resistance.  Cloth leather and flesh do not pose any threat to breaking bone weapons.

 

Bone weapons will inflict damage as their normal steel counterparts might, they just simply do not last long.

 

Bone armour is very effective at protecting a necromancer from an attack but is vulnerable to being broken by all weapons but blunt or large weapons can decimate it in a single strike.

 

Bone weapons and armour can be given to reanimations or player undead.

 

Bone weapons can be cursed with the Cursing spell but the curse lasts until it successfully strikes and curses one person and then expires.  The curse on the weapon is inert in the hands of someone who is not a necromancer.

 

Abyssforging [Tier 5]

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Abyssforging [Tier 5]

 

True mastery of Bonesmithing is realized upon a Necromancer’s mastery of their art (T5) and after learning the power to create Darkstalkers, where they become capable of the power of Abyssforging, allowing them to create “Gloomblades”. These Gloomblades, said to be creations realized by a Gravelord Wraith that explored the depths of the Abyss, are Bonesmithed swords steeped in the power of a mortal life, and strengthened to be as strong as steel. Through this, a permanent corruption may be set upon the weapon, where if a mortal man or even a Necromancer or their reanimated servants were to try to wield it, it would make quick work of them-- draining the Lifeforce from their being, and reducing them to ash. It is only the Darkstalkers, the knights and adherents of the Gravelords, who are capable of wielding Gloomblades.

 

The Gloomswords themselves contain a malicious, mindless presence kept awake only through bathing in the bloodshed of battle; ensuring that the weapon’s effects are kept active, lest they fall into dormancy and uselessness. Through bloodshed and sacrifice, lifeforce is fed to the presence within the blade, granting it the power to inflict Umbral Wounds upon those the blade has made its victim. An Umbral Wound is defined as a form of damage to the mortal spirit, where despite the original wound’s healing, the pain of it does not fade, as the Umbral Wound cannot be mended through mundane means. This does not necessarily grant a Gloomblade wielder an edge in combat, but rather grants them the means to afflict effectual, long-time damage upon their foes to ensure their encounter is not so easily forgotten.

 

Abyssforging is a sacred necromantic practise that demands two primary reagents: a living mortal sacrifice, and the Darkstalker that is to use the weapon to be present.  A Darkstalker may take a specialized Bonesmithed weapon (It doesn’t have to be a sword) and “feed” a victim’s Lifeforce to it, binding the Darkstalker to the new immature Gloomblade. This makes it so that only in the hands of that specific Darkstalker that the Gloomblade’s Umbral Wounding powers are active. Because a Darkstalker cannot be bound to several Gloomblades, this means every Abyssforged weapon is special and individualistic through their exclusive creation, preventing the sanctity of the weapons from being broken through nonsensical and abusive mass-production.

 

A necromancer must currently know the Sacrament of Transcendence taught to them by a Gravelord before they can utilise Abyssforging, as this is technically an extension of that Sacrament.

 

Necromancers with the ability to create Darkstalkers can also create special weapons named Gloomblades for them in a process known as Abyssforging.  

 

Abyssforging creates bone weapons that are as strong and durable as steel, imbued with a powerful curse that causes the pain of any wounds caused by the weapon to linger until magically healed. 

 

These Gloomblades are unique to their darkstalker and cannot be wielded by anyone other than themselves lest the weapon slowly drains the wielder, only one can exist at a time per darkstalker.

 

A Darkstalker can summon his Gloomblade to him magically.

 

The curse placed on the Gloomblade festers with black motes of magic, making its power apparant.

 

 

 

 

 

Reverse Tether [Tier 4]

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Reverse Tether [Tier 4]

 

 

Where life drain is a spell for taking life, reverse tether is very much a means of giving it.  Perhaps a peculiar thought, for a necromancer to give life to someone else, is not so peculiar at all.  After all, necromancy is the manipulation of life and death, and that goes both ways. A reverse tether gets its name from a similar spell, tetherdrain.  (See Life Drain spell) Though unlike tetherdrain where you reach out to a target and create a magical siphon that tears the life away from someone, a necromancer’s growing mastery over their Darkhollow can allow them to reverse the flow of this tether and instead overcome their own hunger through force of will and funnel some of their own life force into their allies.

 

There are three ways a reverse tether can be used on someone, Recuperation, Soothing and Nourishing.

Recuperation is transferring life force to a living creature who is weakened or fatigued, allowing them to quickly regather their strength.  Soothing is transferring life force to an undead who is feral and uncontrollable, magically calming them and feeding them. Nourishing is transferring life force to another necromancer, sacrificing their ability to cast necromancy to fuel another’s.

 

All of these methods require the target to be within 5 blocks to initially establish the tether, then the spell can be finished casting at a 15 block range.  This tether can also be destroyed by holy magic, although the transfer of energy can also be completed by holding on to the target.

 

 

Types of Transfer

 

Recuperation

 

Necromancers do not only fight alongside undead and have been known to have many mortal allies in times of old.  When a comrade falls on the battlefield, overcome by exhaustion, a necromancer can give them a little pick-me-up.  Attaching a tether to them, the necromancer funnels their own life force into their ally, giving them a second wind and surge of energy, removing any sluggishness or weakness from fatigue.  This does not actually mend any of the wounds they might have suffered, and simply gives them the strength to carry on fighting, until they pass out from the pain or die. Recuperation can help remove exhaustion from mages that have over exerted themselves, but does not aid them in casting any further spells, but simply allows them to get up and be active.

 

Casting recuperation takes 1 emote to establish the tether and then 2 to finish the transfer of energy.

Casting recuperation expends 1 spell slot to get an ally back into the fight.  Casting this spell on someone who is not fatigued has no real effect, other than filling the person with vigor.

 

 

Soothing

 

Undead are not perfect, especially those that roam on their own accord.  Necromancers sometimes have quite a hard time controlling these undead, as they have their own whims, their own agendas, and are often unpredictable.  Soothing transfers life force to an undead through a reverse tether, dispelling their rage and bringing them into line. This temporarily dispels and enraged or manic states on a Lich or Darkstalker, forcing them to lose any aggression whilst nearby the necromancer and preventing them from attacking the necromancer directly.  This lasts an hour after being cast.

 

Casting soothing takes 1 emote to establish the tether and then 3 more to finish.  This can be quite a hard spell to finish casting, due to the circumstances that require it, and often may find themselves being mauled before completion, or the person they were trying to prevent receiving such a fate meeting their maker.

 

Soothing requires 1 spell slot to cast.

 

 

Nourishing

 

Necromancers are not known for being generous or giving, but nourishing is as close to that as they may come.  This spell uses a reverse tether to transfer life force between 2 necromancers, allowing the caster to share his own reserves with the recipient.  In mechanical terms, this allows a necromancer to expend 1 spell slot of his own and replenish 1 spell slot to the receiving necromancer.

 

This spell can be used to share out the resources in a group if necessary, ensuring that everyone in the group is at least somewhat ready for the coming fight.  Though perhaps the most use seen out of nourishment is between a teacher of necromancy and his student, as it allows a senior necromancer to replenish the apprentice’s life force to extend the duration of their lessons or practice.  If nourishing is cast on a necromancer that has used his base spell slots and is fatigued, it will restore the flow of life to their body and restore them to a healthy state.

 

Casting nourishing requires 1 emote to establish the tether, and then 1 more per spell slot being transferred.  A necromancer can give away every last ounce of his reserves, if he really wishes, incurring the effects of exhaustion.


 

A necromancer is required to know Life Drain before they can learn Reverse Tether.  A necromancer must learn Reverse Tether before they can teach Necromancy.

 

Reverse Tether is the opposite of the tether used in the spell Tether Drain.  The tether in tether drain seeks to take life from the target, whereas reverse tether allows the flow of life force from the necromancer into their target.

 

A tether is a connection between a necromancer and their target, formed at a range of up to 5 blocks away.  A tether can be destroyed by tackling the necromancer, running out of its range of 15 blocks, or by holy magic.  

 

Recuperation allows a necromancer to transfer life force into a living ally who is fatigued and bring them back into the fight.  The necromancer spends multiple emotes stood casting this spell and is vulnerable to attack. Recuperation does not mend any wounds and instead just gives someone the energy to keep fighting if they want to, even if that is until the death.  This allows a mage that is exhausted from spellcasting to keep fighting but not to keep casting spells.

 

Soothing allows a necromancer to transfer life force into an undead creature to briefly satiate their hunger for life force and dispel and rage or anger they might have for a time.  If this is on a playable undead, the undead cannot be aggressive when nearby the necromancer unless defending itself, and it cannot attack the necromancer directly.  Spell lasts 60 minutes.

 

Nourishing allows a necromancer to transfer life force into another necromancer, spending 1 of their own spell slots to grant the receiving necromancer a spell slot.  This allows multiple necromancers to divide and share their power, or allows a necromancy teacher to help a student to extend their practicing with access to more spellcasting.

 

 

 

 

Cauterizing [Tier 4]

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Cauterizing [Tier 4]

 

 

Cauterizing is a woesome deed full of screaming and strife. The worst pains imaginable in draining are replicated here but duller, deeper, and darker; flesh of the living may be warped in a similar method to fleshsmithing to seal skin, mend muscle, and close wounds in awful scars of ruptured mass lest they be healed by divine rite. Cauterizing weaves needles into the skin, pins muscle with glass shards, and fuses bone with hot iron rods; the pain is acute and lingering, a victim feeling every motion and movement as their body is sealed. This alteration is an ugly thing and often a last resort lest people walk about with hideous scars on their bodies, hiding from public eye.

 

Cauterizing is a pseudo healing spell accessible to Necromancers, though far from perfect the spell can get the job done regardless.  Using the practices of fleshsmithing a necromancer can operate on a willing patient or even themselves, to patch together wounds and reattach extremities in a very gruesome and ugly fashion.  Cauterizing cannot add any body parts to the living, save for reattaching lost limbs (Their own or another descendant limb), though only within one IRL day. (Unless the limb is somehow preserved.)  Other injuries do not have a time limit.

 

Cauterizing is mostly an extension of fleshsmithing.  It requires a necromancer to treat the flesh and bone with life force until it becomes a little more malleable.  This takes a lot of time, and cannot be done on unwilling participants, and the experience is agonising. The patient feels every twist and pull of their muscle and their tendons as the necromancer gets to work.  A necromancer is able to readjust and reinforce broken bones, not just flesh and muscle.

 

The results of Cauterizing look like old fashioned medieval practices of operation, and the work is rarely ever clean.  Skin will be crudely sewn shut, wounds packed with thick globs of flesh, and bones violently cracked back into place. Cauterizing cannot cure ailments, and serves mostly to stop people bleeding out and dying.

 

Cauterizing takes 3 emotes for minor injuries, and 6 emotes and up for larger injuries.  

Cauterizing uses 1 spell slot.

 

A necromancer is required to know Fleshsmithing before they can learn Cauterizing.

 

Cauterizing allows a necromancer to apply practices similar to Fleshsmithing to living people to mend wounds in very shoddy and undesirable manners.  

 

Wounds mended with cauterizing do not heal fully or perfectly, but instead appear gruesome and as if done by medieval doctors, though with a little more accuracy as necromancers can shape flesh and bone as if it were a material.  

 

Cauterizing is agonising for the patient.

 

Cauterizing can reattach limbs if done quick enough, or the limb is preserved.

 

Cauterizing will do its job and stop someone bleeding to death, or succumbing from mortal wounds.

 

Cauterizing does not allow the Necromancer to make modifications to a living being.

 

 

 

 

 

Dark Branding [Tier 5]

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Dark Branding [Tier 5]

 

 

Dark Branding is perhaps one of necromancy’s most devious spells and also one of its most sinister.  With this spell a necromancer can tag with a quick though complex curse that attaches itself to the soul of the victim, should they happen to die while this curse is on them they will automatically rise again as a reanimated corpse under the necromancer’s control.  This curse is not picky, and can be placed on friend and foe alike.

 

Branding someone is a simple process, a necromancer only needs to make contact with someone briefly to swipe the curse onto them.  One emote preparing it in the necromancer’s hand and then one more emote touching them is enough to put this curse into motion. This spell adheres to all of the rules that reanimation does and it does not cost a spell slot to cast initially.  If a target you branded should die then they will become a reanimation under your command, forced to obey your orders, even if those orders is to turn on their former friends. If a necromancer already has all of the reanimations he is able to muster in play, one of them falls inert to make room for the new reanimation.  Reanimations temporarily freeze spell slots while they are active and do not consume a spell slot.

 

A necromancer can have up to three brands active at once, and a necromancer can only curse playable characters that would be able to be reanimated under normal circumstances.  This means a necromancer cannot brand his own reanimations, but that he can brand player controlled Liches and Darkstalkers to rise again under their express control. A necromancer can brand another necromancer, although the necromancer receiving the curse can forcibly reject it if they so wish.

 

Reanimations raised by branding often pose a bigger threat than the average reanimated corpse, as since they are risen fresh from battle, they are likely to be wearing full suits of armour.  

 

The brand lasts however long a combat or combat like scenario lasts.  For example if a necromancer brands one of his allies as enemies are trying to break through their gate, then it will remain as long as there is potential combat or roleplay to be had.  As soon as they leave, the brand would disappear. It is the responsibility of the necromancer casting the spell to tell those they have cursed about it. You need not reveal what the brand does until the cursed target dies, but then it is up to you to explain the basic mechanics of a reanimation to them, so that they can try and perform the role correctly.  A brand can be something like a small purple or black magical sigil inscribed onto their clothing or flesh.

 

A necromancer is required to know Reanimation and Cursing before learning Dark Branding.

 

Dark Branding allows a necromancer to tag a friend or foe in combat with a subtle marking that will force them to rise again as a thrall of the necromancer upon death.  

 

Whilst the brand has no negative effects on a target whilst alive, it can very quickly shift a battle in the necromancer’s favour if the target of the brand somehow dies, whether that be from the necromancer’s hand or someone else's.

 

When something that is branded dies it rises again as a reanimation and functions exactly like so.  This reanimation cannot exceed a necromancer’s limit for reanimations and will cause an older one to collapse dead if that is the case.  

 

A player reanimated by Dark Branding has all of the strength and prowess that they did before they fell in battle, however reanimations cannot cast magic and lose any magical ability.

 

A Necromancer can have 3 dormant Dark Brands at once.

 

A Dark Brand and its effects only last while there is combat or RP between the parties present, if there is nothing happening then the Dark Brand eventually fades, this goes for those reanimated by a Dark Brand, too.

 

The target of the Dark Brand can only be a player, the player will emote for their reanimated form but will be subject to the commands of the necromancer.  This means that if a necromancer brands a human Knight and they die and come back as a thrall of the necromancer and the necromancer commands them to attack their own allies, they must obey and try to do so.

 

 

 

 

Necromancy Sacraments

Necromancy Sacraments are advanced ritual spells within necromancy that may only be taught by a Gravelord (Dark Wraith) after learning all spells on the standard Necromancy Spell list.

A necromancer may also be stripped of the ability to cast a Sacrament by a Gravelord.

 

 

Sacrament of Transcendence [Tier 5]

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Sacrament of Transcendence [Tier 5]

 

 

The Sacrament of Transcendence is the most taxing spell in necromancy other than perhaps reanimating the largest of creatures.  The most intricate form of reanimation, this ritual allows necromancers to take someone who has been PKed and make rise to something greater than any mortal could be.  The raw power needed to grant and contain this level of energy is more than any one necromancer can muster, and so a necromancer must call on others to aid him in this ritual. This ritual allows the creation of one of two powerful skeletal undead creatures: The Lich, a frail but potent spellcaster and the Darkstalker, a lithe and relentless warrior.

 

 

This ritual requires multiple necromancers to perform, 1 ritualist and 2 assistants.  The ritualist is the main necromancer channeling the power of the spell, and the assistants funnel their power into the ritualist.  An assistant does not need to know the Sacrament of Transcendence to assist the ritualist, and simply must know the Reverse Tether spell.  The spell costs 5 spell slots for the ritualist, and 3spell slots each for the assistants.

 

The ritual starts by placing the body of the person that is to transcend by the base of a pillar of crystalline life force. (See crystalline life force under fleshsmithing)  This pillar will assist the flow of life force in the area, and prevent the ritualist from being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of power he is about to output. The ritualist must reach out and establish 2 reverse tethers to the body.  Each assistant must reach out to the ritualist with both hands and establish 2 reverse tethers into the ritualist. Then the ritualist must feed life force through his reverse tethers for 3 emotes and the assistants must feed their life force into the ritualist for 3 emotes, this sheer volume of life force passing in and out of the necromancer fills him with a surge of power that then streaks down the 2 tethers of the ritualist, allowing him at which point to cross over the streams of the tethers and bind the soul to the body.  This is tiring for the assistants but utterly exhausting for the ritualist, causing them to feel completely depleted.

 

At this point, the Lich or Darkstalker will awaken, their eyes glowing with the colour of their aura.  The magic of the ritual decides whether the body is to be raised as a Lich or as a Darkstalker, or in other words the player being raised does.  Any necromancer that knows this ritual can craft a specialised weapon for a Darkstalker that is unique and tailored to that darkstalker specifically.  This weapon, a Gloomblade, possesses a powerful curse that can inflict permanent wounds upon someone unless those wounds are purged by holy magic. (See Bonesmithing under Fleshsmithing under Necromancy spells.)

 

There is a 1 week cooldown for the Sacrament of Transcendence.   Assistants do not incur this cooldown, only the ritualist.

 

While a transcended undead may be destroyed with relative ease by physical means, their resistance to some forms of damage may make it difficult to discern how they can be undone. The common misconception is that to detach the skull from the body would lead to their demanifestation, when in reality the skull itself must be decimated - but to remove the skull from the body in the first place would just lead to the total collapse of the undead’s body, leaving them to linger as a sentient skull until it is caved in fatally.

 

2 necromancers that know the Sacrament of Transcendence can come together to cast a more potent variant of the drain spell to undo the bond between a Lich or Darkstalker’s body and their soul, separating them again and PKing the creature.  This requires the Lich or Darkstalker to fall in combat whether by the necromancer’s hands or someone else’s and then requires the necromancer to drain the remains of the body before it reforms elsewhere. It takes 1 emote to establish contact and 2 emotes to drain the corpse until separation. (PK)

 

When this happens the soul of the Lich or Darkstalker is set into a limbo of sorts, in which it cannot be reunited with the body through the Sacrament of Transcendence again.  This lasts for a period of two weeks IRL, during which the creature cannot be brought back by necromancy. If the necromancer decides to completely destroy the creature’s remains they are permanently killed and can never be brought back.  If remains are damaged but not utterly destroyed a necromancer can work to repair them with fleshsmithing.

 

The Lich

 

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The Lich

 

Liches are aptly skilled in magical arts, as mana expenditure is not something they suffer physical duress from. This fact is also reinforced by the common tradition to raise legendary warlocks and wizards as Liches in order to assure they may reach peak power. When reborn as a Lich, a mage does not develop a greater mana pool, and rather comes to handle the expenditure of mana vastly better than normal mortals. The loss of mana induces exhaustion and weakness - things relative to living flesh, and as Liches do not have flesh, they cannot perceive these weaknesses. This means that a Lich can simply continue to cast magic without exhaustion until their mana pool is depleted, which would merely lead to the failure of further casting. Experienced Liches may learn to “feel” their inner mana reserves in order to determine whether or not they’ll run out as to prevent their unexpected defeat. New Liches are likely to suffer sudden deactivation of their magical powers mid-casting if they cast in excess, and because they are just reborn, to quickly run out of mana at this time would induce conniptions or lapses in physical and mental stability in reaction.

 

Liches cannot perceive much actual feeling. Though they may suffer mentally and emotionally, depending on the individual, all physical touch is dulled and a majority of their senses relative to corporeal feeling are either nonexistent or incredibly numbed.

   

A Lich is not bound to be completely skeletal -- their appearances may vary, though it is common procedure that flesh begins to drift away overtime as the Lich develops in it’s new form. A fleshless Lich is a sign of an experienced Lich, whereas an enfleshed, decaying Lich is the sign of a new Lich; yet, puzzlingly, a Lich whom had taken the time to preserve their rotten forms can also be determined as an elder, as there may lie certain signs to point to their age which would further imply how long they have cared for their sullen, grayed corpseforms.

 

Liches are resistant to the elements and can endure the damages brought by some whereas they are easily undone by others. Fire may scorch their bones, but they will not feel it’s burn; frost may make them brittle, but it will not deter their movements (unless frozen solid); water cannot drown them, for there are no lungs to fill; and so-on and so-forth. Liches cannot perceive pain inflicted by physical damage, such as common iron weaponry or other forms of tangible trauma.  Golden weaponry on the otherhand, whilst almost useless in normal martial combat, is as effective against Liches as steel against mortal flesh. Liches are vulnerable against divine magics and a Necromancer’s Life Drain spell.

 

Liches may have Fleshsuits handcrafted by necromancers to act as near lifelike disguises that they can have fitted to them. (See Fleshsuits in Fleshsmithing)

 

Liches can learn magic as normal, however learning necromancy only takes up two of five magic slots for a Lich, allowing them to learn one more magic than a mortal necromancer might to reflect on their magic prowess.  Liches possess an innate ability to cast the Tether Drain spell. The spell functions exactly like the Tether Drain spell of Necromancy (At the level of a Tier One, Two and Three necromancer. See Life Drain spell)

 

 

The Darkstalker

 

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The Darkstalker

 

Darkstalkers are sturdier skeletal undead; they are able to sustain much more damage in some instances where blunt weaponry or force is not applicable. This makes the use of bladed arms of lesser use, unless of greater weight and able to smash moreso than slash. Darkstalkers possess unnatural speed and nimbleness and have no limitation to endurance. This means that how fast and strong they can be is attributed by the weight and properties of the arms and armor they carry, yet they are not bothered by the common mortal weakness of greater weight fatigue under physical duress. Darkstalkers donning full suits of platemail will lose their unnatural speed and agility in favour of defense, though this puts them on a level speed of someone alive without armour. Wearing chainmail or anything lesser will not cause them to lose their unnatural speed or agility.

 

Darkstalkers are immortal undead. This means they cannot drown, they cannot bleed, they cannot feel most degrees of pain, do not age, and are often not burdened by the common physical fatigue that a mortal would withstand under intense physical stress. This pits them as challenging foes, but not invincible ones. Darkstalkers are skeletons beneath their armor. Even with sturdy plates upon them, blunt force trauma is an especially effective non-magical method to combat them. Their boney frames can only take so much before crumbling away.

 

Darkstalkers suffer the worst of undead weaknesses regarding lesser mortal functions. They are unable to breed, they are unable to rest and sleep, and are even incapable of feeling a great many things -- both physically and mentally. The process of turning is so spiritually and physically scarring that they simply lose all feelings within themselves, whether it be the heat of flame, the cut of steel, the warmth of a loved one, or the touch of the sun’s rays upon their lost skin. Only the righteous light of the Aengulic powers or gold weaponry brings them any real agony, and acts as a shocking reminder that they are not yet dead and far from it. The sole thing they may physically feel is the ghost-like beat of a heart within their ribcage; a relieving, false sensation generated by an excess of collected lifeforce within them. It gives these forlorn knights a reason to strive -- so they may feel the fleeting pulse of a life that no longer remains.

 

Darkstalkers are bothered by light, and weak to Clerical magics. While they do not fear fire like the Wraiths of old, pure sunlight seems to be shared instead; acting as a undying source of discomfort where the only reprieve is to hide beneath black cloaks to hope that the soft burning of the rays upon their bones may fade. This feeling is intensified tenfold by holy magics, where the pure power of Clerics may ward them off with ease based on the fear and pain that their magic brings Darkstalkers. The presence of sunlight also erodes their focus at a subconscious level and tampers with their innate ability to retain lifeforce, thus causing it to slowly fade away unless they seek shade or a shadowed place befitting their title.

 

Darkstalkers may have Fleshsuits handcrafted by necromancers to act as near lifelike disguises that they can have fitted to them. (See Fleshsuits in Fleshsmithing)

 

Darkstalkers are not capable of casting any magic whatsoever, except from the Darkstalkers’ innate ability to cast the Touch Drain spell.  The spell functions exactly like the Touch Drain spell of Necromancy (At the level of a Tier 1, 2 and 3ecromancer. See Life Drain spell)

 

 


 

A necromancer must know all standard necromancy spells before they can be taught the Sacrament of Transcendence from a Gravelord.  If an assistant to this spell, you must only know the reverse tether spell to participate.

 

The Sacrament of Transcendence allows a necromancer to turn a dead character into a Lich or a Darkstalker so a player may continue playing them.  

 

This Sacrament must be done within the effective area of an active Crystalline Life Force pillar.

 

This Sacrament has a 1 IRL week cooldown.

 

2 necromancers that know this sacrament can also PK a Lich or Darkstalker by first killing them and draining their corpse with a heightened version of the Life Drain spell only possible as an extension of a necromancer’s knowledge of the sacrament.  The necromancer can choose between preserving the body afterwards so that it can possibly be brought back after two weeks have passed, or destroying the remains completely so that they are dead forever.

 

Liches and Darkstalkers are undead and thus have no need to eat or drink.  They do however have a small innate hunger for life force, though nowhere near as potent as a Necromancers.

 

Liches possess an innate Tether Drain ability and Darkstalkers possess an innate Touch Drain ability.  This functions exactly as the respective spells do at their lower tier bracket. (Tier one to three)

 

Liches and Darkstalkers do not feel pain (though are still damaged) when struck in combat, except when struck by gold weaponry or holy magic.  Liches and Darkstalkers are very vulnerable to these two things. Liches and Darkstalkers are also much weaker to blunt damage than other types of physical damage, as they are made of bone.

 

Smashing a Lich or Darkstalker’s skull badly will cause them to die and have to reform, but smashing other parts of their bodies will not right out kill them but simply remove the use of that part of their body.   

 

When a Lich or Darkstalker is killed, they will respawn in the wilds somewhere as they reform.

 

Liches and Darkstalkers do not suffer physical fatigue from expending energy like living creatures do, this is especially useful for Darkstalkers who boast a seemingly unending endurance allowing them to stay in a fight until death.  Likewise, a Lich does not suffer magical fatigue from spellcasting and unlike a living creature can continue to cast spells unhindered until their mana pool is empty.

 

Liches and Darkstalkers don’t have to appear entirely skeletal, their aesthetic is up to them as long as it is in line with the theme of undeath and that they are somewhat recognisable as a Lich or Darkstalker

 

Darkstalkers possess an unnatural speed and agility and limitless endurance.

 

Darkstalkers are not capable of wearing suits of plate armour without sacrificing their unnatural speed and agility. Liches cannot manage armour at all, as their frames are much lighter. Liches and Darkstalkers are both capable of utilising bone armour and weapons created with bonesmithing.

 

Darkstalkers cannot learn magic.  A Lich only uses 2 magic slots to learn necromancy, instead of 3.

 

Darkstalkers can wield cursed weapons uniquely crafted for them called Gloomblade.  These weapons are crafted with bonesmithing by a necromancer that knows the Sacrament of Transcendence, and requires a live sacrifice to create the weapon.  The weapon does not need to be a sword, despite the name. (See Abyssforging under Bonesmithing)

 

 

 

 

Sacrament of Adherence [Tier 5]

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Sacrament of Adherance [Tier 5]

 

 

The Sacrament of Adherence is a means to place the burden of necromancy on the shoulders of others, and pass on the coveted knowledge of the dark to new blood ready to step up to the task.  This ritual unlocks the potential within someone, forming an everthirsting Darkhollow at their core. This causes them to have a ravishing need to consume life force, but also primes them to the manipulation of life and death, and therefore the ability to cast necromancy.  This spell simply manifests the Darkhollow in a new student, allowing them to cast the magic, but the student can afterwards learn necromancy from anyone that knows the Reverse Tether spell.

 

The necromancer must place a hand on the core of the person and summon their own power to both their hands, concentrating it to a fine point.  Then they necromancer must begin draining the person with one hand and feeding them life force with the other, continuously for 3 emotes as the volume of life force flowing builds and builds.  This process is seriously disorienting for the target, and is excruciating pain unlike anything they’ve ever felt. Finally, the necromancer cancels the spell in a snap of his will, causing the moving channels of life force to grow confused and form in tandem into a spiralling maelstrom within, seeking constantly to take and give life force.

 

Does not require a spell slot to cast.

 

A necromancer must know all standard necromancy spells and the Sacrament of Transcendence before they can be taught the Sacrament of Adherence from a Gravelord.

 

Mortals, Liches, Wraiths and Wights can all bear a Darkhollow and can be infused with this ritual, allowing the ability to learn necromancy.  

 

This Sacrament allows a necromancer to create new necromancers by cursing them with a Darkhollow.  (See Darkhollow under Necromancy Mechanics)

 

Once a new necromancer has been created by being given a Darkhollow any necromancer that knows the reverse tether spell may then teach them necromancy spells.  This ritual is only required to initially allow the casting of necromancy.

 

A Darkhollow cannot be forced upon someone who does not wish it OOCly.

 

 

Sacrament of Silence [Tier 5]

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Sacrament of Silence [Tier 5]

 

The Sacrament of Silence is a means for necromancers to silence other necromancers that abuse their power, and remove their ability to cast necromancy.  When silenced a necromancer’s Darkhollow does not vanish but instead falls dormant, unable to be utilised but also seemingly frozen without the need to be fed.  A necromancer can repeat the same ritual to resume the flow of the Darkhollow of someone that was silenced, and they will retain their level of power and all prior knowledge of spells with the exception of sacraments, which must be relearned from a Gravelord.  This means silencing isn’t necessarily final, and that a necromancer may be allowed to resume if they prove their worth again.

 

This ritual requires the caster to be able to touch the person being silenced.  With a tight hold on the target, the necromancer exerts a concentrated portion of his energy to bring the will of his Darkhollow to the forefront, and cast through it.  The dark hunger of the necromancer’s grip etches away at the essence of the target’s Darkhollow, slowly sealing it up like a cauterised wound in a horrific agony. The necromancer is required to do this for 4 emotes, whilst holding on to the target.  Then a hallowed bliss will fall over the target as they realise they no longer hunger for life force, but will find that they cannot manipulate it either.

 

This spell does not require any spell slots to cast.

 

A necromancer must know all standard necromancy spells, the Sacrament of Transcendence and the Sacrament of Adherence before they can be taught the Sacrament of Silence from a Gravelord.

 

The Sacrament of Silence allows necromancers to prevent another necromancer’s ability to use necromancy.  

 

A necromancer can automatically be silenced after three months of inactivity. (LT Consultation)

 

A necromancer can have this silencing removed from them, resuming their ability to use necromancy.  They will not decrease in tier and will retain the ability to cast all spells they knew before, with the exception of Sacraments which must be relearned in their specific manner.

 

The silencing of a necromancer can only be undone by this same sacrament, and not the Sacrament of Adherence as that ritual is for manifesting a new Darkhollow, whereas silencing only puts an existing one to sleep.

 

 

The Rite of Inheritance [Tier 5]

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The Rite of Inheritence [Tier 5]

 

 

 

The Rite of Inheritance is the ultimate show of power among necromancers, as through this ritual a necromancer may prove his mastery over the dark art and become a Gravelord. The title of Gravelord is something given to the all-elusive Wraiths of legend; creatures borne of the Black Nexus’ and its original master’s sins.  These dark Wraiths possess an innate natural control over the dark art and have been known to rule it with both wisdom and blood.

 

The Rite of Inheritance appropriately names a necromancer Gravelord, as it shows their Grandmastery over necromancy. A Gravelord can teach necromancers the Sacraments of Transcendence, Adherence and Silence.  A necromancer may only learn these Sacraments from a Gravelord, and necromancers cannot simply pass them on once they know them. A Gravelord is capable of taking away these Sacraments as quickly as he gave them out, should a necromancer be seen to be abusing their powers.

 

The Rite of Inheritance is not a typically long process, though it requires a majority of the current Gravelords to stand before the Black Nexus with their heir and peer into the twisting depths of the Black Nexus to gain its attention, before kneeling and channeling all of their power into the heir.  The heir will then too kneel, as a tether, black as night lashes out from the Black Nexus and affixes itself to him, exchanging power in a dark bargain.

 

A Gravelord can be removed by a similar ritual, requiring the majority of the currently existing Gravelords to stand before the Black Nexus with the Gravelord in question.  If necromancy falls on such hard times that no Gravelords exist, the Black Nexus will gift its power including any unknown Sacraments to the first eligible person to seek it out.  A Gravelord can be automatically removed if they have not been online in three months.

 

Borrowing a slither of power from the venerable and feared Black Nexus, Gravelords may imbue other necromancers with the same gift they have, allowing them to hold sway over necromancy as a whole. A Gravelord is capable of teaching the highly coveted Sacraments of necromancy to other necromancers whom they have judged worthy, though they are also capable of removing the ability for a necromancer to cast these Sacraments should they be found to be misusing them.  

 

To teach a Sacrament to a necromancer, a Gravelord must place their palm on the necromancer’s forehead and exhume their knowledge through a connection formed between the Darkhollows of the two. The knowledge of the ritual will invade the necromancer’s mind uncomfortably setting as a permanent memory.  A Gravelord can also do the reverse of this same thing to a necromancer to purge the knowledge of the spell from their mind. This removal process takes four emotes of revoking the memory with physical contact. Sacraments are learned in order and that order cannot be skipped, and should a Sacrament that is a prerequisite for another Sacrament be unlearned, so too will that Sacrament.

 

A necromancer must know every single Necromancy spell before they can undergo the Rite of Inheritance and rise as a Gravelord.

 

The Rite of Inheritance allows a necromancer to become a Gravelord, the pinnacle of Necromancy.

 

The Gravelords are Wraiths, dark spectres with a fierce mastery of Necromancy.

 

A necromancer can become a Gravelord when they have learned every necromancy spell including sacraments in a ritual that requires the majority of the current Gravelords to crown them before the Black Nexus.

 

A Gravelord can be removed in the same manner, requiring a majority of the current Gravelords to take the person in question before the Black Nexus and undo the rite. (With LT consultation)

 

A Gravelord can be automatically removed after three months of inactivity. (With LT consultation)

 

A Gravelord cannot be affected by the Sacrament of Silence, they would need to first be cast from the mantle of Gravelord.

 

A Gravelord is both capable of teaching individual sacraments to other necromancers and taking their ability to cast those sacraments away again should they abuse them.

 

 

The Black Nexus
 

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The Black Nexus

 

The Black Nexus was once an ancient Lexicon designed to contain the vast troves of knowledge of the Dragaar.  This specific lexicon was called the Radiant Shard made by Mordring before he took the plunge into the Abyss. Through the necromancy of the Old Lords, the first wraiths, the Lexicon was deeply corrupted into a malicious entity that developed a hunger for wraith souls and dark knowledge.  

 

Whilst much of modern necromancy was recovered from the mad scholars of Iblees and developed from there, many of its much older and potent powers were sealed away in the Black Nexus until the necromancers of Anthos discovered it and made a dark bargain for its secrets.  The Black Nexus was responsible for the Gravelords of Anthos, darkwraiths with ruthless control over necromancy thanks to the gifts given to them by the Black Nexus. This is why that even to this day necromancers both revere and fear the Black Nexus, for the tumultuous madness and undeniable power that lies within it.

 

The Black Nexus is not used for much within the spells of necromancy themselves but rather acts as a stable cornerstone for fable and legend.  The Black Nexus is used to make rise to new Gravelords, or remove fallen ones. It is also sometimes peered into by the wraiths to try and decipher its mangled wisdom, though often barren of anything coherent.      

 

The Black Nexus is known to conceal itself from those not in tune with its dark nature and as such is only visible in the presence of a necromancer or undead.  The Black Nexus is far too large to move easily and so the Gravelords were able to gleam a small ritual to allow the Black Nexus to be summoned to another location through a brief tear into the Abyss.  As long as a majority of the current Gravelords are present, they can do this ritual to commune with the Black Nexus and have it be transported to them.

 

Peering into the Black Nexus for too long inflicts a deep set madness upon the character, only a Gravelord can truly attempt to understand the ramblings of the Abyss still deep within the Black Nexus itself.

 

The Black Nexus is not able to be physically destroyed, due to its nature as a background object for necromancy without any real use outside creating new Gravelords.

 

The Black Nexus can be summoned by a majority of the existing Gravelords through a short ritual.

 

The Black Nexus can theoretically be stolen though is roughly the size and weight of a small building.

 

 

Duzkgul, The Dark Wraiths

 

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Still bearing some forsaken semblance of kinship to those who have eluded their bodies, a necromancer becomes Duzkgul, the fabled Dark Wraiths of old. These Wraiths are nightmare incarnate and the unliving embodiments of mastery over necromancy.

 

The Gravelords may prime the soul of a living Necromancer who has learned all of the Necromancy spells prior to sacraments and set them down before the black nexus, feeding their life-force to the candidate.  Through such a thing, a Necromancer’s darkhollow begins to overengorge itself upon the entire being of the Necromancer affected. Their skin darkens to the consistency of asphyxiated blood, clinging to atrophied muscle and employing a crazed sense of hunger.  Then, through a dark and twisted act, their corrupted soul is pulled inside-out through their darkhollow and manifested as an incorporeal mess of ill-fortuned stagnated lifeforce as a Wraith bound to the service of the Black Nexus.

 

Both Mortals and Liches may become wraiths.  When someone is cast out of Wraithdom and they are mortal, they are left with their enlarged darkhollow visible on the front of their chest, like a sprawling mass of sickly black vines.  A Lich who is cast out of Wraithdom is returned to their state of undeath and has their aura permanently darkened.

 

A Wraith is an olympian of undeath, boasting all of the traditional traits of undeath like immortality, no need for food, drink or sleep, but also much more.  A Wraith is not bound by a truly physical form and can dart about in a fluid blur. A wraith is neither corporeal or incorporeal but twisted mix of both, carrying itself like a heavy mass of smoke, dense thick and volatile.  A wraith cannot pass through solid objects like a phantom, however their body holds no skeleton, and they can shift their formless bodies in size and shape - taking the form of looming, thin creatures of nightmare, or screaming spirals of dark mist (This only changes in aesthetic, not strength.)  The Wraith’s form allows it to wield arms and armour, or to call upon magic. Wraiths make for both fearsome warriors and mages, though a Wraith may not wear a set of armour and cast magic at the same time, save for necromancy which is innately woven through a Wraith’s every fibre.

 

Wraiths are as black as the Abyss, made entirely from a distorted and stagnant form of life-force simply clings to their blackened souls.  Some wraiths have been known to have two glowing eyes, some have none at all, only a faceless void where a head might sit. Wraiths are known to wear a dark cloak that covers most of their bodies, as their fear of the blazing sun eroding their form is very real.  In the night however, a wraith without a cloak is nearly impossible to spot; blending in with the evening’s lightless corners.

 

Wraiths float naturally a few feet off the ground, no more than four to five feet.  This is aesthetic only and can’t be used to get over something a player normally couldn’t.

 

A wraith by nature bares more of a disposition of evil than other forms of undead as they boast a innate hatred for things that are living.  A young wraith may frequently lose his temper and lash out at those around him, though with experience a wraith learns to mask his grudges and instead play the living like pawns, adopting trusting and accepting facades to allow their allies to be convinced of their intentions, even entering hollow fellowships with even their closest of supposed allies simply to further their own selfish vanity.

 

Wraiths have an agility about them that is often only dreamed about by mortalkind.  Through the lack of a physical body they can dart through the air at a sprint and easily outmaneuver anyone burdened by any sort of heavy gear.  Whilst wraiths are not physically weak by any sense, they do not boast extreme strength. They are capable of wielding weaponry like any man and can wear heavier armours, but to do so will slow them down and temporarily mute their ability to cast magics other than Necromancy.

 

A wraith can shift a part of their form into long dark extremities resembling beastial claws.  These sharp clawed fingers are comprised entirely of dense life-force and can cut through flesh effortlessly as the Wraith’s intense form starts to unravel the victim’s life force directly.  It has no real effect on anything other than flesh and hide.

As wraiths are not limited by using only light bone weaponry, they possess the ability to harden any bone weapon in their grasp with the strength of steel and imbue it with any of the curses in the necromancy curse list, this will function as long as the Wraith wields it.

 

Wraiths possess an aura of fear that strikes into the hearts of the living.  This aura will send a chill up the spine of anyone in the Wraith’s presence but only when staring into the dark cowl of a Wraith will their blood turn cold from the terrifying visage staring back.  Avoiding looking directly into a Wraith’s eyes can help steel someone’s nerves enough to face or converse with them. Wraiths have been known to unleash staggering screams to enforce their frightful presence, as a sign of their coming, their anger, or their pain.

 

Wraiths can contort their formless bodies in such a way that they may enter the corpses of the deceased and pilot them as a vessel for infiltration or deception.  With the Wraith’s own body exhuming nothing but raw life force, the corpse looks more fresh than it was before it became occupied but still something is off about them, this is all dependent on what state the corpse was in when it was found and can even be skeletal but this is why a husked wraith will likely be seen fully covered.  The state of the body can be further reinforced with feats of necromancy, and should a Wraith wish to they could make a pretty convincing mortal with enough time and dedication.

 

Similarly, a Wraith can try and push its own body to share the same space as someone that is alive, temporarily enveloping them with the Wraith’s own form.  This causes the victim to appear as a shadowy silhouette of themselves as the Wraith covers them. During this time the victim begins to suffocate and its life force rapidly beginning to transfer into the Wraith.  The victim may try and force the Wraith off of them but must risk harming themselves in the process. A target must be mortally wounded before a Wraith may envelop them in this way, as wounds revealing an anchor point on the victim where life force is leaking and the Wraith must abandon anything he is wearing to attempt this, ruling out the ability to do this in broad daylight or otherwise burn from the sun.  

 

Wraiths are a threat to the living, with a command over the dead and terribly difficult to find and kill; but not impossible.  Their fear of the sun is not without reason, for to burn a wraith with flame will cause severe agony, and setting it completely alight will surely spell its end soon.  Accompanying this is divine magic, which can smite a Wraith with the power of the Aenguls, the quickest and most efficient method for killing a wraith. When you don’t have fire or the gods on your side, you can always resort to a golden sword or axe, for the highly magical properties of the metal will sink into the Wraith’s form like steel buried within flesh, reminding the spectre just how alive it really is.


 

Necromancers (Whether Mortal or Lich) are automatically turned into Duzkgul as part of the Rite of Inheritence, which may take place once a Necromancer has mastered every necromancy spell.

 

Non-deific magic is retained in the process of becoming a Wraith, and being a having necromancy as a Wraith takes up three magic slots just like normal.  (Even if previously a Lich)

 

If cast from the mantle of Gravelord and undone again by the Rite of Inheritence, the Wraith will transform back into whatever form they were in previous whether that be mortal or undead.

 

Wraiths can distort their forms somewhat and change their aesthetic within reason, but the core make-up of their being is always a impossibly dark shadow or mist.

 

Wraiths are capable of wearing some heavy armour in exchange for temporarily halting their ability to cast spells from magic outside of Necromancy.  Wearing only a helmet and gauntlets will not hinder a wraith in this way.

 

Wraiths can attempt to envelop someone living if they are wounded, covering them with their own body like a shroud and trying to both suffocate them and rip the life force from their bodies.  The Wraith can be thrown off if the victim strikes himself.

 

Wraiths are capable of manifesting parts of their bodies as elongated serrated claws made of sharpened life-force which can cut flesh with ease, but not metal.

 

Wraiths can harden any bone weapon they hold to the strength and durability of steel, similar to a Darkstalker’s Gloomblade.  Wraiths can curse these weapons with any curse from the Necromancy curse list, but they only function when held by the Wraith.

 

Wraiths possess an innate aura that unsettles those around them. If staring directly into a Wraith’s eyes, that person will be overcome with a shock of terror, but this does not prevent them from fighting or acting.  Wraiths can release a staggering scream to try and scare victims stiff.

 

Wraiths are capable of inhabiting a lifeless body, making them appear somewhat alive in a feat known as husking.  They are also bound by the physical limitations of this body, making them weaker than if not husked.

 

Wraiths are able to shrug off dull weaponry, though not completely immune to them.  Blows from Golden Weaponry, however, strike as true as any blade on mortal flesh. Simple gold objects do no more than numb a Wraith’s touch.

 

Wraiths are terribly weak to any real amount of fire and can be scared away by enough of it, managing to set a wraith on fire can destroy the cloaks that protect them from the sun.  A wraith being exposed completely to direct sunlight are scorched, agonised by its rays, which if it is not able to find shelter, will demanifest it.

 

Their greatest adversary is divine magics, which can smite a wraith down quicker than anything else.

 

Their is a cap of how many Wraiths may exist at once - Five.

 

 

 

 

 

Necromancy Tier Progression

 

 

 

Necromancy is a three slot magic and as such has a large variety of spells that can be learned.  This allows us to spread them out well across the tiers, giving the magic’s bread and butter spells straight away at tier one, whilst restricting the more complex and interesting spells until later on in the magic.  Even the basic spells learned at the first tier are given additional effects as the user progresses to later tiers, to reflect on their growth.  Tier alone is not the only thing required to learn a spell, however, as all necromancy spells have prerequisites, requiring someone to know one spell before they can learn another (Ex.  Learning Reanimation before they can learn Fleshsmithing, as the latter requires experience with the former.) Lastly there are sacraments, ritual spells that can only be taught by Gravelords, masters of Necromancy, that allow access to Necromancy’s most coveted functions.

 

 

[Tier 1]

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[Tier 1]

Necromancer is imbued with the Darkhollow and can manipulate life force.

 

Necromancer has 2 base spell slots + 1 excess spell slot, 3 total.

 

Necromancer can learn Life Drain (No Prerequisites – First Necromancy Spell)

Necromancer can learn Life Drain: Touch Drain. 

Drains enemy’s life force over time, fully incapacitate in 5 emotes (Half, rounded up, if target is heavily wounded)  Target suffers tremendous pain and secondary effects (Ex. Fear) throughout duration.  Requires physical contact to maintain spell.  No spell slot requirement, acts as method to replenish spell slots.

 

Necromancer can learn Life Drain: Tether Drain. 

Drains enemy’s life force over time, fully incapacitate in 8 emotes (Half if target is heavily wounded)  Target suffers tremendous pain throughout duration.  Tether can be applied up to 5 blocks away and can be maintained up to 15 blocks away.  Tether can be broken by exceeding range, tackling caster, or divine magic.  No spell slot requirement, acts as method to replenish spell slots.

 

Life Drain spell slot recovery table is listed under the Life Drain spell, as well as plant and creature size categories.

 

Necromancer can learn Reanimation (Prerequisite – Life Drain)

Reanimation Method: Touch Reanimation. 

Allows Necromancer to touch a corpse and raise it from the dead to serve them over the course of 4 emotes.  Small creatures take less time to reanimate, large creatures take more.  Reanimations can be commanded verbally and can be equipped with weapons and armour if it makes sense for their forms.  Reanimation does not spend spell slots but instead freezes a necromancers existing spell slots, preventing their use and returning them upon relinquishing active reanimations. 

 

Reanimation size category spell slot costs are listed under the Reanimation spell.

 

 

[Tier 2]

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[Tier 2]

Necromancer now has 2 base spell slots + 2 excess spell slots, 4 total.

 

Life Drain – Changes

Touch Drain.   Necromancer can now attempt to drain 2 targets at once when using both hands.

 

 

Reanimation – Changes

Touch Reanimation.  Necromancer can now touch 2 corpses at the same time to reanimate both at once.

 

 

Necromancer can learn new spell Vivication (Prerequisites – Reanimation)

Allows a Necromancer to awaken a corpse to try and pry information from it.  A vivified corpse cannot learn new information to carry on to its next life if it is revived by the monks.  Reanimating a body in this manner causes the body to sit upright if it can and attempt to have a conversation with the Necromancer.  The Necromancer can ask it questions and it can answer.  The corpse is not forced to speak and is aware of the conversation and the questions being asked, however the pain suffered by the corpse is the worst pain it has ever felt and is inclined to give up the information it is being asked for to get the conversation over with as quickly as possible.  This is in the Necromancer’s interest too as the spell is exhausting and consumes 1 spell slot per 12 emotes of dialogue each by the Necromancer and the corpse. (Dialogue must be at least one sentence to count as an emote.)

 

 

[Tier 3]

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[Tier 3]

Necromancer now has 2 base spell slots + 3 excess spell slots, 5 total.

 

Life Drain – Changes

Tether Drain.  Necromancer can create 2 tethers at once.

 

 

Reanimation – Changes

Reanimations can now be commanded through gestures. 

 

Reanimation Method: Touch Reanimation.  Touch reanimation now takes 3 emotes.

 

Necromancer can learn Reanimation Method: Verbal

Allows Necromancer to reanimate corpses in an area around them through chanting, permitting the reanimation of as many corpses at once as a Necromancer’s spell slots allow.  Slower than Touch Reanimation.  Casting requires 4 emotes. 

 

 

Vivication – Changes

Necromancer can learn new Vivication technique: Feign Death

 

Allows the Necromancer to inflict a ghastly curse upon themselves, making them appear as though completely dead.  Whilst maintaining the cast of the spell the Necromancer mostly loses control of their body however can slightly shuffle and crawl, or whisper/mumble.  They can see and hear everything that is going on around them but cannot feel and will feel everything that happened to them during the spell all at once when the spell ends.  Whilst the spell is active the Necromancer appears rotten and worm eaten or even skeletal and if not moving seems truly dead by all accounts, as the corpse is not fresh at all.  A Necromancer can Feign Death for 20 minutes per 1 spell slot.

 

 

Necromancer can learn Stagnation (Prerequisite – Life Drain)

Necromancer can stagnate the flow of life force in an area to cause the landscape to spiral into a strange limbo.  This land will slowly sap the energy of those inside of it and necromancy spells take twice as many emotes within the radius.  Stagnation takes 3 emotes to put into effect and costs 2 spell slots.  The stagnant land starts initially as a 10 block radius around the casting point, growing to a 20 block radius on the second day and a 30 block radius on the third day.  Stagnant land can be added onto with additional casts of the spell.  Stagnation has a one week cooldown until it can be cast again.  Stagnant land can be removed by Druids and Shamans, or 3 necromancers that know the spell. 

 

 

Necromancer can learn Afflictions (Prerequisite – Life Drain)

Allows Necromancer to apply slow killing diseases to objects, food and drink, small bodies of water or even directly to a living creature to act as a host.  Costs 1 spell slot cast an Affliction.  It takes 2 emotes to create an Affliction and one more to apply it.  The disease will spread naturally through contact with the afflicted object, source, or person.  If the Affliction is applied directly to a person, that initial target will be more resistant to its symptoms to help pass it on to as many people as possible.  Necromancers are immune to Afflictions.  Afflictions can be cured by any healing magic, but it will keep continuing to spread if the source is not removed or the carriers are still infected.  An Afflictions duration can be extended if multiple necromancers aid its creation.

 

Possible Effects for Afflictions are listed under the Afflictions spell.

 

 

Necromancer can learn Cursing (Prerequisite – Vivication)

Necromancer can learn to apply curses via 2 methods: Touch and Object.

Touch applies curses directly to a target through physical contact. 1 emote to make contact with target and 2 more to apply the curse whilst maintaining contact.  Single use curse.

 

Object allows an object to be cursed, allowing the curse to be constantly transferred to others when coming into contact with the object.  1 emote making contact with object and 2 more emotes to apply curse whilst maintaining contact.  This curse is short lived compared to regular curses and lasts two days, but can be applied as many times and to as many different people as touch it.  This cursing method does not cause weaponry to curse those it strikes, but instead curses the wielder.

 

Necromancer can learn to apply two different categories of curses: Lesser Physical Curses and Lesser Mental Curses

Lesser Physical Curses target the body but are minor in their effects. (Ex. Headaches)  Lesser Physical Curses cost 1 spell slot to create.

 

Lesser Mental Curses target the mind but are minor in their effects. (Ex. Prevalent Doubt)  Lesser Mental Curse cost 1 spell slot to create.

 

A target knows they are cursed when it takes effect.  Curses can be healed by any magical healing or by another necromancer for the cost of 1 spell slot.  Both those capable of healing a curse and necromancers are also able to detect cursed individuals.  A curse’s duration can be extended if multiple necromancers help create it. 

 

 

[Tier 4]

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[Tier 4]

Necromancer can now become a teacher after learning the Tether Drain spell.

 

Necromancer now has 2 base spell slots + 4 excess spell slots, 6 total.

 

Life Drain – Changes

Touch Drain.  Requires 4 emotes to fully incapacitate a target. (Half if the target is heavily wounded)

 

Tether Drain.  Requires 6 emotes to fully incapacitate a target. (Half if the target is heavily wounded)

 

 

Cursing – Changes

Necromancer can learn new cursing method: Chant

Chant allows a person to be cursed from range but takes longer.  Can begin the chant as long as you can see your target and can finish the chant as long as you can still see them or they are within earshot for the remainder of the cast.  Chanting takes five emotes to inflict the curse.

 

Necromancer can learn new cursing method: Bonesmithed Weapon

Allows a Necromancer to curse a weapon created from the Bonesmithing spell.  This spell does not curse the wielder of the weapon and instead transfers its curse onto those victim to the weapon’s strikes.  Weapon must strike flesh (or the equivalent on other creatures) to pass on the curse.  Weapon remains cursed until it curses three victims.  Takes 3 emotes to weave the curse onto the weapon.

 

Necromancer can learn new cursing category: Greater Physical Curses

Greater Physical Curses are curses that attack the body but their effects are much more severe. (Ex. Paralysis)  Costs 2 spell slots to create a Greater Physical Curse.

 

Necromancer can learn new cursing category: Greater Mental Curses

Greater Mental Curses are curses that attack the mind but their effects are much more severe.  (Ex. Hallucinations)  Costs 2 spell slots to create a Greater Mental Curse.

 

 

Necromancer can learn Fleshsmithing (Prerequisite - Reanimation)

Allows a Necromancer to sculpt flesh, bone and life force itself in a multitude of ways.  The Necromancer can create their own zombies and abominations to then use in reanimation, create pillars of pure life force to assist in rituals and even create weapons and armour made entirely from bone. These spells are all heavily RP focused and cannot be done during combat.

 

Repairing Undead

A Necromancer can repair damage done to an undead or abomination or even modify their existing forms.  Minor repairs and modifications being done require three emotes, major repairs and modifications being done require six emotes and upwards.  Emote count is a loose requirement, as the actual RP is the important part here.  Repairing or Modification costs 1 spell slot.

 

Creating Undead

A Necromancer can create undead zombies and abominations that can then be reanimated for other uses.  Aimed to let the imagination go wild, though all in the realm of fairness.  A creation should not be any stronger than another creature of its reanimation size category. 

 

Creating undead is a very RP heavy process and is more about the creative prospect of RP and as such creations can take a long time to complete, as intended.  The specific emote and spell slot requirements of creating undead vary wildly based on their size and whether or not you are familiar with their design.  (See Fleshsmithing spell, Creating undead)

 

Life Force Crystallization

A Necromancer can shape life force into a crystal matter that acts as a conduit for necromantic energy.  When sculpted high enough it becomes activated as a Crystalline Life Force pillar and can be used to conduct rituals and strengthen nearby undead.  These pillars are represented by coal blocks and have different areas of effect based on how many blocks high the pillar is.  (10 block radius at 3 high, 20 block radius at 4 high, 30 block radius at 5 high)  Two emotes per block of crystalline life force created and 1 spell slot per block created. 

 

Creating Fleshsuits (Prerequisite – Reverse Tether)

Fleshsuits are disguises designed for undead to allow them to blend in within society.   Can be very close to lifelike but decay over time, growing gradually less presentable until they finally fall apart.  They can be repaired before they fall completely apart.  Creation RP takes place over two seperate days, with certain RP requirements to be fufilled each day (See Fleshsmithing spell, Fleshsuits)  Must be crafted within the radius of an active Crystalline Life Force pillar.  Costs 3 spell slots upon completion.  The Fleshsuit gives undead feeling while wearing it, returning most senses, though they are still undead and cannot be killed through normal mortal wounds.

 

Bonesmithing (Prerequisite – All Fleshsmithing subspells)

Allows the creation of weapons and armour made of bone.  These weapons are brittle but are still effective at harming and protective.  Bone Weapons can break after few uses but their strikes are as deadly as any other weapon.  Bone armour is likely to break after a few heavy strikes but it will still negate the impact of those blows as good as any armour whilst it still holds.  Bone weapons can be cursed with a unique cursing method that allows a curse to be applied on weapon strikes.  Bone armour is so lightweight that it does not impact a Necromancer’s ability to cast spells and bone weaponry is light enough for necromancers to use effectively.  Like other Fleshsmithing activities, the creation of Bonesmithed weapons and armour is very RP heavy and emote count and spell slot cost is detailed on the spell page.  (See Fleshsmithing spell – Bonesmithing subspell)

 

 

Necromancer can learn new spell Reverse Tether (Prerequisite – Life Drain)

A Reverse Tether is similar to creating a tether from the Tether Drain spell, except the flow of energy passes through the tether in the opposite direction, giving life force instead of taking it.  Tethers can be established up to 5 blocks away and maintained up to 15 blocks away.  A tether can be cut off if the target exceeds the maximum distance, the caster is tackled, or the tether is struck by divine magic.

 

Necromancer learns transfer type: Recuperation

Allows the Necromancer to spend 1 spell slot to bring an ally back into the fight.  Prevents battle fatigue, allowing someone who is exhausted to continue fighting, including mages exhausted from casting, however does not allow them to keep casting spells.  Takes 1 emote to establish tether and 2 emotes to transfer energy.

 

Necromancer learns transfer type: Soothing

Allows the Necromancer to spend 1 spell slot to calm a targeted undead.  If the undead is a playable undead, they are unable to be aggressive while near the Necromancer unless defending themselves and cannot directly attack the Necromancer, this lasts for 60 minutes.  Takes 1 emote to establish tether and 3 emotes to transfer energy.

 

Necromancer learns transfer type: Nourishing

Allows the Necromancer to transfer one of his spell slots to another necromancer.  Used to share power before a fight or to fuel students during teaching.  Takes 1 emote to establish tether and 1 more emote to transfer the energy per spell slot being transferred.  If a Necromancer does this to another Necromancer that has tapped all of his spell slots and is experiencing life force withdrawal, this will sate them and help return them to health.

 

Necromancer can learn new spell Cauterizing (Prerequisite – Fleshsmithing)

Cauterizing is a method of healing wounds within Necromancy in the most gruesome fashion.  It gets the job done but it is not without great pain or imperfections.  In a similar way to how fleshsmithing is done, a Necromancer sews wounds shut and packs them with new fleshy matter, etc.  Limbs can even be reattached if properly preserved or operated on right away.  Cauterizing takes 3 emotes for minor injuries and six emotes and up for larger injuries.  Cauterizing uses 1 spell slot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tier 5]

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[Tier 5]

Necromancer can now be taught Sacraments from a Gravelord

 

Necromancer now has 2 base spell slots + 5 excess spell slots, 7 total.

 

Reanimation – Changes

Reanimations can now be given commands telepathically.  Touch Reanimation now takes 2 emotes.  Verbal Reanimation now takes 3 emotes.

 

Afflictions – Changes

A Necromancer can now engineer their own unique diseases with specific methods of spreading them and the most extreme and bizarre symptoms and effects.  A Necromancer can do this through creating an MArt.  Once approved, that Affliction can be reproduced on a whim but takes 3 spell slots to cast.

 

Cursing – Changes

Necromancer can learn new cursing method: Bond

Can curse a target a great distance so long as you have an object that is great importance to them or a physical piece of your target (Ex.  Family heirloom or clump of hair.)  Target must be within the same city as you, same province as you, or within a few hundred blocks of you; one of these must apply.  This method of cursing takes 2 emotes to apply.  A physical piece of the target cannot be used again for further cursing and any sentimental items cannot be used again for 1 month.  Any curse category can be applied through this method.

 

Necromancer can learn new cursing category: Dark Curse

A Dark Curse is a extremely vicious and malevolent curse that the Necromancer makes very personally for their victim.  These curses are more magical in nature and can only be applied through the Bond method.   Dark curses aim to trick the victim into doing dark deeds, like assaulting loved ones or to jump freely from a ledge, all through constant chittering and whispering in their minds.  These are examples of vague dark curses.

 

Alternatively, a dark curse can be engineered far more specifically to allow more powerful effects, such requires an MArt.  MArt curses can sap a specific attribute from a victim or prevent someone from casting a specific spell, for example, as they aim to specifically target a strength of the target and turn it against them.

 

Dark Curses cost 3 spell slots to cast.

 

Fleshsmithing – Changes

Necromancer can learn new bonesmithing technique: Abyssforging. (Prerequisite – Sacrament of Transcendence)

 

Abyssforging is a highly coveted spell and is tied to the Sacrament of Transcendence, allowing a Necromancer to take a bonesmithed weapon and imbue it with a dark curse, strenghtening the weapon and allowing it to leave long lasting Umbral Wounds upon targets that it strikes.  These weapons, named Gloomblades, are created specifically for an individual Darkstalker and are bound to them.  They can recall the weapon to them magically and may only ever have one bound at once.  The Umbral Wounds can be healed by any magical healing.

 

Necromancer can learn new spell Dark Branding (Prerequisite – Reanimation and Cursing)

Allows a Necromancer to swiftly mark a friend or foe for death on the battlefield.  If the marked target is to fall in battle, they are instantly and automatically revived as a reanimation under the Necromancer’s command.  These reanimations adhere to reanimation limits of the Reanimation spell and cannot exceed the number of spell slots the Necromancer has.  The spell requires 1 emote to prepare and 1 emote of contact to brand someone.  When reanimated by Dark Branding, a player is effectively a thrall of the Necromancer and must obey their commands to the best of their ability, even if that is attacking their own allies.  Playable undead may be targeted by Dark Branding and it will reanimate them as it would any other person.  A necromancer can have up to 3 dormant brands active at once.  Someone reanimated in this way has all the fighting strength and prowess that they did before falling in combat, however retain no magical abilities.

 

It is up to the Necromancer to try and help a player understand how to vaguely roleplay a reanimation.

 

Necromancer can learn Sacrament of Transcendence (Prerequisite – All spells from Standard Necromancy Spell List)

Allows the Necromancer create a playable Lich or Darkstalker with the aid of two assistants.  Assistants only need to know Reverse Tether to participate.  Ritual must be cast within the effective radius of a Crystalline Life Force pillar.  Ritual costs 5 spell slots for the ritualist and 3 spell slots for the assistants.  The ritual is very RP heavy and is covered in much greater detail above. (See Sacrament of Transcendence)

 

Liches are fragile spellcasters with an affinity for magic and only use up two magic slots to learn Necromancy, possesses an innate Tether Drain spell that functions at Tier 1 power.

Darkstalkers are hardened warriors with limitless endurance.  They can be crafted unique Gloomblades by a Necromancer that curses enemies with long lasting magical wounds.  Possesses an innate Touch Drain spell that functions at Tier 1 power, otherwise cannot learn magic whatsoever.

 

A Lich or Darkstalker can be PKed by 2 Necromancers that know the Sacrament of Transcendence and defeat the undead in combat, or find them defeated by draining them. (Detailed under Sacrament of Transcendence)

 

The Sacrament of Transcendence has a 1 week cooldown for the ritualist, assistants do not incur this cooldown.

 

Necromancer can learn Sacrament of Adherence (Prerequisite – Sacrament of Transcendence)

Allows the Necromancer to curse someone with a Darkhollow, allowing them to learn Necromancy.  Mortals, Liches, Wraiths and Wights may learn Necromancy.  This Sacrament is not required to teach Necromancy and is only required to create new Necromancers – anyone that knows the Reverse Tether spell can teach someone once they have been given a Darkhollow.  A Darkhollow cannot be forced upon someone OOCly.

 

Does not require a spell slot to cast.

 

 

Necromancer can learn Sacrament of SIlence (Prerequisite – Sacrament of Adherence)

Allows a Necromancer to silence another Necromancer that has been ordained to be misusing their powers, plugging their Darkhollow and preventing the casting of Necromancy.  When silenced a Necromancer does not forget the spells from the Necromancy Spell List that he knows, nor do they regress in Tier however they must be retaught any Sacraments upon having their silence removed.   A Necromancer must hold down the target necromancer for 4 emotes, focusing on cauterizing their Darkhollow and a similar process can be undergone in reverse to remove the silence.  Someone can be silenced after 3 months of inactivity. (LT consultation)

 

Does not require a spell slot to cast.

 

 

 

Necromancer can undertake the Rite of Inheritance (Prerequisite – Every spell within Necromancy)

The Rite allows a Necromancer to become a Gravelord of Necromancy, which facilitates the teaching and removal of Necromancy Sacraments.  The Rite must be performed in front of the Black Nexus, in which a majority of the current Gravelords must be present.  The Rite transforms a Necromancer into a Duzkgul (Dark Wraith) along with their newfound power and responsibility.

 

Does not require a spell slot to cast.

 

A Gravelord can be removed from their station if they are brought before the Black Nexus with a majority of the current Gravelords present.  A Gravelord can also be removed after 3 months of inactivity. (LT Consultation)

 

Sacraments are taught and removed in an odd manner, with a simple touch from a Gravelord all the necessary information simply enters or exits the mind.  Removing a Sacrament takes four emotes. Sacraments must be taught in order.

 

All Gravelords are transformed into Duzkgul, Dark Wraiths of Old with a true Grandmastery over Necromancy.

A Wraith will keep any non-deific magic they possess after their transformation.  Wraiths possess a multitude of innate abilities as creatures such as husking, enveloping, an aura of fear and manifesting dark claws. (See Duzkgul under The Rite of Inheritence)

 

Up to 5 Wraiths may exist at any one time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Necromancy Redlines


General Redlines

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General Redlines

 

When becoming a Necromancer, the player must take screenshots of the RP of them receiving their Darkhollow through the Sacrament of Adherence and post them on their student application.  Both the person that will be your teacher and the Necromancer that conducted the Sacrament to give you your Darkhollow must post on your student application.  If the Necromancer that conducted the Sacrament was not taught it, then your application will be revoked.

 

Necromancy takes up 3 magic slots, or 2 if the Necromancer is a Lich.

 

Necromancy cannot be self taught, with the exception of the first spell Drain Life if the student has not been taught the spell after 3 weeks of having their Magic Application for Necromancy accepted.

 

Necromancy isn’t inherently evil and doesn’t cause any sort of tainting to the soul or aura, reanimated corpses are, however.

 

Necromancy does not prevent the learning of any other magics in its own right, however learning other magics may prevent the learning of Necromancy.

 

The Life-force found in all living and undead things is the fuel for all Necromancy spells.

 

Every Necromancer is imbued with a curse named the Darkhollow, that appears as a sickly black blotch of twisted vine like streaks somewhere on the skin.  This is what allows a Necromancer to cast Necromancy spells and also gives them a constant hunger for life force.

 

The Darkhollow causes a Necromancer to age at half their normal rate.

 

A Necromancer must keep his body fuelled with life force or will become severely sickly over the course of 3 weeks..  (2 spell slots worth of draining – 1 medium creature or equivalent.)

 

Necromancers are not feeble by nature by the insatiable hunger for life force that their Darkhollow brings means they cannot gain muscle. 

 

Cannot effectively use two handed weapons or heavy armours in combat.  Lightweight and fragile armaments made of bone can be made through Necromancy to supplement this.

 

Necromancers use a mechanic called spell slots to track the amount of the life force resource that they have to power their spells.  Every Necromancer starts with 2 reserve spell slots that can be used in emergencies to drain their own bodies to power their spells making themselves weak in the process, outside of that they get an additional spell slot every tier, starting with 3 spell slots at tier 1 and ending with 7 spell slots total.  Spell slots are replenished by draining creatures or flora with the Life Drain spell.

 


Spell Specific Redlines

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Spell Specific Redlines

 

 

Life Drain

 

A necromancer is required to know Life Drain before they can learn any other necromancy spell.

 

Life Drain has specifically defined amounts for life force (Spell slots) restored upon draining a creature or plant, whether drained partially, fully or after death and whether they are a very small entity, very large one or somewhere inbetween.

 

If a necromancer only drains a creature until near-death, they will restore half the amount of spell slots they normally would for that creature size.  Alternatively, a necromancer can drain a recently deceased body for half of the normal amount of spell slots.

 

Life Drain is split into two spells: A quick and crippling melee drain (Touch Drain) and a slower and more muted ranged drain. (Tether Drain)

 

Touch Drain can only be done with physical contact and quickly grows increasingly hard to escape from as crippling side effects set in, requiring the victim to aggressively try and break free.  

 

Tether Drain creates a magical funnel between the necromancer and a target up to five blocks away letting the necromancer slowly drain them over time though without any additional hindering.  This tether can be broken by tackling a necromancer, cutting it off directly with divine magic, or running out of its fifteen block range.

 

Life Drain always inflicts an unbearable agony against its victim as it viciously tears the life force from them.  Life Drain saps the victims energy over time, so even if a necromancer does not fully drain someone from healthy to dead, they must still roleplay being fatigued and injured.

 

If a necromancer is given a Darkhollow and is not taught Life Drain within three IRL weeks, they can begin to learn on their own through practice.  All other necromancy spells must be taught.

 

 

Reanimation

 

A necromancer is required to know Life Drain before they can learn Reanimation.

 

Reanimations are undead and are vulnerable to divine magic by nature, however their bond with their necromancer is strengthened if within five blocks of them in which case they boast a slightly higher resistance to such magic.

 

Reanimations temporarily borrow a spell slot from a necromancer while they are reanimated and this spell slot is freed up when the reanimation is made dormant again or is killed.  If a necromancer reanimates a creature when all of their spell slots are frozen, a currently active reanimation will fall inert to make space.

 

A necromancer can cast spells while controlling a reanimation.

 

Reanimations can be reanimated quickly by touch (At tier 1) or slightly slower at range. (At tier 3) 

 

Reanimations do not need to be puppeteered step by step, action by action and can be given commands to follow, which if not too ridiculous they will do.  If no commands are given they will instinctively follow and defend their necromancer.  Reanimations can be active far away from a necromancer, though cannot be given new commands unless nearby.

 

Reanimations can be commanded verbally (At tier 1), by gestures (At tier 3) or telepathically (At tier 5)

 

Necromancers can reanimate all different shapes and sizes of creature.  Anything with flesh or bone can be reanimated and necromancers can create their own gruesome reanimations to be risen with Fleshsmithing. (See Fleshsmithing.)  The largest of creatures requires multiple necromancers to control at once. 

 

What a necromancer can reanimate is limited by his maximum and available spell slots.

 

Reanimations are brainless undead with no real personality, resembling feral monsters more than the remains of people.

 

Humanoid reanimations or fleshsmithed reanimations that loosely resemble humanoid features like their limbs can effectively wield weapons, though depending on their frames may not be able to effectively wield different types of armour.  Simple descendant skeletons do not have enough strength to equip full sets of platemail armour, but bigger bulkier undead creations may have.

 

 

Vivication


A necromancer is required to know Reanimation before they can learn Vivification.

 

Vivication allows the necromancer to force a body to rise and speak to them, giving the opportunity to interrogate the dead in a process that is excruciating to the temporarily revived entity.

 

Someone brought back by Vivication would want the suffering being caused to end as quickly as possible, making them likely to say anything to make it stop.  They are never forced to speak the truth however, and can both speak truth or lies to try and sate their interrogator.

 

Vivication lasts a small amount of time, spanning a short conversation.

 

Vivication allows a necromancer to temporarily feign death, appearing as if they died long ago to passersby.  In this state they can crawl very slowly and simply whisper but can see and hear what is happening.

 

 

Stagnation

 

A necromancer is required to know Life Drain before they can learn Stagnation.

 

Necromancers can put in motion a ravaging of the land that slowly distorts any life in the area.  This causes things not to live or die correctly, causing both to happen in strange and horrible ways.  

 

Living creatures begin to form tumors and cancers and many other manners of growths and ailments when lingering in Stagnant Land.

 

Plantlife in these areas can change in a large variety of ways mostly up to the necromancer who cast the spell though it is recommended that the changes to the land reflect the climate and environment of the land.  Bountiful fields grow barren, wetlands sink into infested mires and jungles begin growing into labyrinths full of twisted poisonous flora. Life force in the area cannot flow properly and often congeals as thin rolling fog, or adding a musty red tinge to the air.

 

Stagnation has a cooldown of one week per necromancer.

 

Stagnant Land slowly expands in a crawl and if left unchecked can be a real problem.  Druids and Shamans can heal the Stagnant Land but only to their limit, stagnant land can be continuously added to with more casts of the spell.  Necromancers can also undo the spell cast by themselves or other necromancers, with the aid of two others.

 

Necromancy takes twice as long to cast in Stagnant Land with the exception of the ability to regress the Stagnant Land.

 

 

Afflictions

 

A necromancer is required to know Life Drain before they can learn Afflictions.

 

Afflictions allow necromancers to create diseases to spread to other players.  These diseases can be spread through touching objects, through the air, through water and food sources, through contact from person to person.

 

Afflictions can be cured by any healing magic as they are organic in nature.

 

Afflictions listed here are solid example diseases for students of necromancy to learn and use, though at tier 5 necromancers can spend time engineering their own unique diseases that they must make an MArt for.  Once made, this disease becomes a signature creation of theirs and can be applied with all of the parameters agreed upon in the MArt.

 

Afflictions can persist for up to 2 weeks.  This can be extended by another 2 weeks by each additional necromancer that aids in creating the affliction, up to a maximum of 2 months.  Over this duration the symptoms of the afflicted grow stronger and stronger, reaching an apex after 1 IRL week. If the object that was originally afflicted is destroyed, all the afflicted food and drink consumed, the afflicted body of water emptied or dried, or the prime target of the disease dies, the affliction cannot spread further as it is considered gone.  Afflictions can also by purged from their bound sources and the victims of the disease can be healed with any healing magic (Includes alchemy).

 

Necromancers are immune to Afflictions.

 

 

Cursing

 

A necromancer is required to know Vivication before they can learn Cursing

 

A curse has different types.  Physical curses affect the body, mental curses affect the mind and dark curses try to convince a victim to do something they don’t want to, or sap a very specific power or ability temporarily from them.  

 

Necromancers can create their own unique curses through MArts at Tier 5, these curses can be very detailed and can target specific strengths of a person, like their ability to cast a certain spell or their dexterity.  

 

Curses can persist for up to 2 IRL weeks.  Multiple necromancers can aid in casting the same curse, extending its duration by another 2 weeks per necromancer up to a total of 2 IRL months.

Dark curses cannot be extended, and can last maximum 2 weeks.

 

Magical healing can purge all necromancy curses.  A necromancer can spend 1 spell slot to snuff out the remaining life force in a curse and end it prematurely, whether the curse was upon themselves, an object, or someone else.

 

Necromancers can curse special weapons made of bone that’s curses last until the weapon has struck three victims, these curses only function when the weapon is wielded by a necromancer.

 

 

 

Fleshsmithing

 

A necromancer is required to know Reanimation before they can learn Fleshsmithing. (Requires Reverse Tether to create Flesh Suits)


Fleshsmithing allows necromancers to craft their own creations out of flesh and bone that can be risen and used in reanimation.  This allows a large amount of creativity and variety in the undead creatures they can make.

 

Fleshsmithed creatures must adhere to the general strength of other creatures of their size bracket that can be reanimated. (See reanimation spell) A large fleshsmithed creature can only be as strong as another large creature, etc.  They may have one specific strength but must have sufficient weaknesses to offset them.  I.E  Gaining quickness in exchange for physical strength.

 

Fleshsmithing also allows a necromancer to repair and make modifications to reanimations or player undead.

 

Fleshsmithing must be roleplayed out and is not possible in combat, small creatures take the shortest amount of time to create and the largest creatures require multiple necromancers to craft.

 

Fleshsmithing cannot be performed on the living, that is a seperate spell called Cauterizing.

 

A necromancer can create a pillar of crystalline life force that can strengthen undead in a proximity around it, causing them to resist golden weaponry and divine magic as if it were steel blades and regular evocations while in the area, this pillar is required for creating fleshsuits and Liches/darkstalkers.

 

A necromancer can create a fleshsuit with fleshsmithing materials when within the proximity of a life force pillar.  A fleshsuit can be worn by a Lich or Darkstalker to act as a lifelike disguise.  This aims to replace the Draught of Incite.

 

Undead keep all of their same strengths and weaknesses while wearing a fleshsuit, although they get the ability to feel sensation.

 

A fleshsuit decays over time before needing repaired, losing its lifelike qualities over a month, have flesh rot off of the bone after a month and a half, and completely falling apart after two months.  

 

If a fleshsuit is damaged in combat or decays it can be repaired by a necromancer.  If the suit collapses entirely or the undead dies while wearing it, it cannot be repaired and must be recreated entirely. This is intended to replace the function of the draught of incite.

 

 

Bonesmithing (Subspell of Fleshsmithing)

 

A necromancer is required to know Fleshsmithing before they can learn its sub-process Bonesmithing.

 

Necromancers can craft weapons and armour out of bone in a sub-process of the Fleshsmithing spell known as Bonesmithing.

 

Bone weapons and armour are light and easy to use by a necromancer but are very brittle when met with resistance.  Cloth leather and flesh do not pose any threat to breaking bone weapons.

 

Bone weapons will inflict damage as their normal steel counterparts might, they just simply do not last long.

 

Bone armour is very effective at protecting a necromancer from an attack but is vulnerable to being broken by all weapons but blunt or large weapons can decimate it in a single strike.

 

Bone weapons and armour can be given to reanimations or player undead.

 

Bone weapons can be cursed with the Cursing spell but the curse lasts until it successfully strikes and curses one person and then expires.  The curse on the weapon is inert in the hands of someone who is not a necromancer.

 

 

Abyssforging (Subspell of Bonesmithing)

 

A necromancer must currently know the Sacrament of Transcendence taught to them by a Gravelord before they can utilise Abyssforging, as this is technically an extension of that Sacrament.

 

Necromancers with the ability to create Darkstalkers can also create special weapons named Gloomblades for them in a process known as Abyssforging.  

 

Abyssforging creates bone weapons that are as strong and durable as steel, imbued with a powerful curse that causes the pain of any wounds caused by the weapon to linger until magically healed. 

 

These Gloomblades are unique to their darkstalker and cannot be wielded by anyone other than themselves lest the weapon slowly drains the wielder, only one can exist at a time per darkstalker.

 

A Darkstalker can summon his Gloomblade to him magically.

 

The curse placed on the Gloomblade festers with black motes of magic, making its power apparant.

 

 

Reverse Tether

 

A necromancer is required to know Life Drain before they can learn Reverse Tether.  A necromancer must learn Reverse Tether before they can teach Necromancy.

 

Reverse Tether is the opposite of the tether used in the spell Tether Drain.  The tether in tether drain seeks to take life from the target, whereas reverse tether allows the flow of life force from the necromancer into their target.

 

A tether is a connection between a necromancer and their target, formed at a range of up to 5 blocks away.  A tether can be destroyed by tackling the necromancer, running out of its range of 15 blocks, or by holy magic.  

 

Recuperation allows a necromancer to transfer life force into a living ally who is fatigued and bring them back into the fight.  The necromancer spends multiple emotes stood casting this spell and is vulnerable to attack. Recuperation does not mend any wounds and instead just gives someone the energy to keep fighting if they want to, even if that is until the death.  This allows a mage that is exhausted from spellcasting to keep fighting but not to keep casting spells.

 

Soothing allows a necromancer to transfer life force into an undead creature to briefly satiate their hunger for life force and dispel and rage or anger they might have for a time.  If this is on a playable undead, the undead cannot be aggressive when nearby the necromancer unless defending itself, and it cannot attack the necromancer directly.  Spell lasts 60 minutes.

 

Nourishing allows a necromancer to transfer life force into another necromancer, spending 1 of their own spell slots to grant the receiving necromancer a spell slot.  This allows multiple necromancers to divide and share their power, or allows a necromancy teacher to help a student to extend their practicing with access to more spellcasting.

 

 

Cauterizing

 

A necromancer is required to know Fleshsmithing before they can learn Cauterizing.

 

Cauterizing allows a necromancer to apply practices similar to Fleshsmithing to living people to mend wounds in very shoddy and undesirable manners.  

 

Wounds mended with cauterizing do not heal fully or perfectly, but instead appear gruesome and as if done by medieval doctors, though with a little more accuracy as necromancers can shape flesh and bone as if it were a material.  

 

Cauterizing is agonising for the patient.

 

Cauterizing can reattach limbs if done quick enough, or the limb is preserved.

 

Cauterizing will do its job and stop someone bleeding to death, or succumbing from mortal wounds.

 

Cauterizing does not allow the Necromancer to make modifications to a living being.

 

 

Dark Branding

 

A necromancer is required to know Reanimation and Cursing before learning Dark Branding.

 

Dark Branding allows a necromancer to tag a friend or foe in combat with a subtle marking that will force them to rise again as a thrall of the necromancer upon death.  

 

Whilst the brand has no negative effects on a target whilst alive, it can very quickly shift a battle in the necromancer’s favour if the target of the brand somehow dies, whether that be from the necromancer’s hand or someone else's.

 

When something that is branded dies it rises again as a reanimation and functions exactly like so.  This reanimation cannot exceed a necromancer’s limit for reanimations and will cause an older one to collapse dead if that is the case.  

 

A player reanimated by Dark Branding has all of the strength and prowess that they did before they fell in battle, however reanimations cannot cast magic and lose any magical ability.

 

A Necromancer can have 3 dormant Dark Brands at once.

 

A Dark Brand and its effects only last while there is combat or RP between the parties present, if there is nothing happening then the Dark Brand eventually fades, this goes for those reanimated by a Dark Brand, too.

 

The target of the Dark Brand can only be a player, the player will emote for their reanimated form but will be subject to the commands of the necromancer.  This means that if a necromancer brands a human Knight and they die and come back as a thrall of the necromancer and the necromancer commands them to attack their own allies, they must obey and try to do so.

 

 

Sacrament of Transcendence

 

A necromancer must know all standard necromancy spells before they can be taught the Sacrament of Transcendence from a Gravelord.  If an assistant to this spell, you must only know the reverse tether spell to participate.

 

The Sacrament of Transcendence allows a necromancer to turn a dead character into a Lich or a Darkstalker so a player may continue playing them.  

 

This Sacrament must be done within the effective area of an active Crystalline Life Force pillar.

 

This Sacrament has a 1 IRL week cooldown.

 

2 necromancers that know this sacrament can also PK a Lich or Darkstalker by first killing them and draining their corpse with a heightened version of the Life Drain spell only possible as an extension of a necromancer’s knowledge of the sacrament.  The necromancer can choose between preserving the body afterwards so that it can possibly be brought back after two weeks have passed, or destroying the remains completely so that they are dead forever.

 

Liches and Darkstalkers are undead and thus have no need to eat or drink.  They do however have a small innate hunger for life force, though nowhere near as potent as a Necromancers.

 

Liches possess an innate Tether Drain ability and Darkstalkers possess an innate Touch Drain ability.  This functions exactly as the respective spells do at their lower tier bracket. (Tier one to three)

 

Liches and Darkstalkers do not feel pain (though are still damaged) when struck in combat, except when struck by gold weaponry or holy magic.  Liches and Darkstalkers are very vulnerable to these two things. Liches and Darkstalkers are also much weaker to blunt damage than other types of physical damage, as they are made of bone.

 

Smashing a Lich or Darkstalker’s skull badly will cause them to die and have to reform, but smashing other parts of their bodies will not right out kill them but simply remove the use of that part of their body.   

 

When a Lich or Darkstalker is killed, they will respawn in the wilds somewhere as they reform.

 

Liches and Darkstalkers do not suffer physical fatigue from expending energy like living creatures do, this is especially useful for Darkstalkers who boast a seemingly unending endurance allowing them to stay in a fight until death.  Likewise, a Lich does not suffer magical fatigue from spellcasting and unlike a living creature can continue to cast spells unhindered until their mana pool is empty.

 

Liches and Darkstalkers don’t have to appear entirely skeletal, their aesthetic is up to them as long as it is in line with the theme of undeath and that they are somewhat recognisable as a Lich or Darkstalker

 

Darkstalkers possess an unnatural speed and agility and limitless endurance.

 

Darkstalkers are not capable of wearing suits of plate armour without sacrificing their unnatural speed and agility. Liches cannot manage armour at all, as their frames are much lighter. Liches and Darkstalkers are both capable of utilising bone armour and weapons created with bonesmithing.

 

Darkstalkers cannot learn magic.  A Lich only uses 2 magic slots to learn necromancy, instead of 3.

 

Darkstalkers can wield cursed weapons uniquely crafted for them called Gloomblade.  These weapons are crafted with bonesmithing by a necromancer that knows the Sacrament of Transcendence, and requires a live sacrifice to create the weapon.  The weapon does not need to be a sword, despite the name. (See Abyssforging under Bonesmithing)

 

 

Sacrament of Adherence

 

A necromancer must know all standard necromancy spells and the Sacrament of Transcendence before they can be taught the Sacrament of Adherence from a Gravelord.

 

Mortals, Liches, Wraiths and Wights can all bear a Darkhollow and can be infused with this ritual, allowing the ability to learn necromancy.  

 

This Sacrament allows a necromancer to create new necromancers by cursing them with a Darkhollow.  (See Darkhollow under Necromancy Mechanics)

 

Once a new necromancer has been created by being given a Darkhollow any necromancer that knows the reverse tether spell may then teach them necromancy spells.  This ritual is only required to initially allow the casting of necromancy.

 

A Darkhollow cannot be forced upon someone who does not wish it OOCly.

 

 

Sacrament of Silence

 

A necromancer must know all standard necromancy spells, the Sacrament of Transcendence and the Sacrament of Adherence before they can be taught the Sacrament of Silence from a Gravelord.

 

The Sacrament of Silence allows necromancers to prevent another necromancer’s ability to use necromancy.  

 

A necromancer can automatically be silenced after three months of inactivity. (LT Consultation)

 

A necromancer can have this silencing removed from them, resuming their ability to use necromancy.  They will not decrease in tier and will retain the ability to cast all spells they knew before, with the exception of Sacraments which must be relearned in their specific manner.

 

The silencing of a necromancer can only be undone by this same sacrament, and not the Sacrament of Adherence as that ritual is for manifesting a new Darkhollow, whereas silencing only puts an existing one to sleep.

 

 

The Rite of Inheritence

 

A necromancer must know every single Necromancy spell before they can undergo the Rite of Inheritance and rise as a Gravelord.

 

The Rite of Inheritance allows a necromancer to become a Gravelord, the pinnacle of Necromancy.

 

The Gravelords are Wraiths, dark spectres with a fierce mastery of Necromancy.

 

A necromancer can become a Gravelord when they have learned every necromancy spell including sacraments in a ritual that requires the majority of the current Gravelords to crown them before the Black Nexus.

 

A Gravelord can be removed in the same manner, requiring a majority of the current Gravelords to take the person in question before the Black Nexus and undo the rite. (With LT consultation)

 

A Gravelord can be automatically removed after three months of inactivity. (With LT consultation)

 

A Gravelord cannot be affected by the Sacrament of Silence, they would need to first be cast from the mantle of Gravelord.

 

A Gravelord is both capable of teaching individual sacraments to other necromancers and taking their ability to cast those sacraments away again should they abuse them.

 

The Black Nexus

Peering into the Black Nexus for too long inflicts a deep set madness upon the character, only a Gravelord can truly attempt to understand the ramblings of the Abyss still deep within the Black Nexus itself.

 

The Black Nexus is not able to be physically destroyed, due to its nature as a background object for necromancy without any real use outside creating new Gravelords.

 

The Black Nexus can be summoned by a majority of the existing Gravelords through a short ritual.

 

The Black Nexus can theoretically be stolen though is roughly the size and weight of a small building.

 

Duzkgul – The Dark Wraiths

Necromancers (Whether Mortal or Lich) are automatically turned into Duzkgul as part of the Rite of Inheritence, which may take place once a Necromancer has mastered every necromancy spell.

 

Non-deific magic is retained in the process of becoming a Wraith, and being a having necromancy as a Wraith takes up three magic slots just like normal.  (Even if previously a Lich)

 

If cast from the mantle of Gravelord and undone again by the Rite of Inheritence, the Wraith will transform back into whatever form they were in previous whether that be mortal or undead.

 

Wraiths can distort their forms somewhat and change their aesthetic within reason, but the core make-up of their being is always a impossibly dark shadow or mist.

 

Wraiths are capable of wearing some heavy armour in exchange for temporarily halting their ability to cast spells from magic outside of Necromancy.  Wearing only a helmet and gauntlets will not hinder a wraith in this way.

 

Wraiths can attempt to envelop someone living if they are wounded, covering them with their own body like a shroud and trying to both suffocate them and rip the life force from their bodies.  The Wraith can be thrown off if the victim strikes himself.

 

Wraiths are capable of manifesting parts of their bodies as elongated serrated claws made of sharpened life-force which can cut flesh with ease, but not metal.

 

Wraiths can harden any bone weapon they hold to the strength and durability of steel, similar to a Darkstalker’s Gloomblade.  Wraiths can curse these weapons with any curse from the Necromancy curse list, but they only function when held by the Wraith.

 

Wraiths possess an innate aura that unsettles those around them. If staring directly into a Wraith’s eyes, that person will be overcome with a shock of terror, but this does not prevent them from fighting or acting.  Wraiths can release a staggering scream to try and scare victims stiff.

 

Wraiths are capable of inhabiting a lifeless body, making them appear somewhat alive in a feat known as husking.  They are also bound by the physical limitations of this body, making them weaker than if not husked.

 

Wraiths are able to shrug off dull weaponry, though not completely immune to them.  Blows from Golden Weaponry, however, strike as true as any blade on mortal flesh. Simple gold objects do no more than numb a Wraith’s touch.

 

Wraiths are terribly weak to any real amount of fire and can be scared away by enough of it, managing to set a wraith on fire can destroy the cloaks that protect them from the sun.  A wraith being exposed completely to direct sunlight are scorched, agonised by its rays, which if it is not able to find shelter, will demanifest it.

 

Their greatest adversary is divine magics, which can smite a wraith down quicker than anything else.

 

Their is a cap of how many Wraiths may exist at once - Five.

 

 

 

 

Weaknesses

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Weaknesses

Necromancers cannot gain muscle and if they do not drain they will wither and become feeble.

 

They cannot use two handed weapons or wear heavy armour.

 

Limited on how many spells they can cast by the Spell slot system.

 

Liches are frail skeletons that cannot use weapons or armour.


Darkstalkers cannot use magic.

 

Liches and Darkstalkers are vulnerable to gold weaponry and divine magic.

 

Wraiths are vulnerable to gold weaponry and divine magic and are at risk of de-manifesting from exposure to the sun if the cowls they wear to protect themselves are destroyed by fire or blade.

 


Necromancy Interactions

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Necromancy Interactions

Necromancy does not have many special interactions with other magics or creatures. Necromancy spells affect always everyone, mostly, with some exceptions.

 

Only a creature with life-force can be subject to the life-drain spell.  Magical creatures do not have life-force, only living creatures and undead.  

 

Necromancers, undead and magical creatures are immune to afflictions.

 

Any creature can be cursed, but certain symptoms may not be applicable to a certain creature. (Ex. Skin decay on a ghost.)

 

Anything that is considered a living or undead creature can reanimated.  

 

Anything that is not a magical creature can be subject of vivication.

 

Stagnant Land can be healed by Druids and Shamans

 

Afflictions, Curses or Umbral Wounds can all be healed by any magical healing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Purpose of Necromancy

 

Necromancy holds a place in any good fantasy world, as a dark and sinister force that seeks to battle, usurp or scheme against the common people.  Necromancy is often a misunderstood force and because of that, it is feared and better yet are those that practice it, feared and shunned are the Necromancers of nearly every fantasy setting.  Literally wielding the forces of life and death in their hands, Necromancy exists to offer a taste of dark, evil and creative roleplay. That said, whilst many Necromancers are traditionally evil, the avenues of RP are still very much open ended and offer a chance for a player to bring their unique spin on what a Necromancer can be - and that’s just it, everything comes down to wanting to make great roleplay together.

 

Necromancy offers a lot of interesting roleplay for those that practice it and those that come into contact with it.  Its spells are filled with depth and it requires a great imagination to make use of the magic’s full potential. Creativity is encouraged here as Necromancy is very much about design and there are so many varieties within the spells of Necromancy such as which sort of creatures you wish to reanimate, or which effects you wish to weave into your diseases or curses, how you want to design your very own flesh abominations or weapons and armour made from bone itself, down to creating undead Liches and Darkstalkers that other players can actually play as a main character.  

 

Necromancy was intended to function as a guild magic from its inception and the vision of Necromancy has not changed too much in that regard, there is great value in guild roleplay.  Though with the citizens of many nations not being exactly in love with Necromancers just walking around it can be quite hard to find and become a Necromancer, which shares a good dichotomy with keeping the magic just uncommon enough that it is not seen everywhere; along with the magic now having a multi-slot requirement, meaning that those that wish to pursue it are likely to be committed to it.   

 

 

 

Conditions of Implimentation

 

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When this lore is implemented the following will happen:

 

Necromancers whose magic slots would become overcapped with Necromancy now taking up three magic slots (two for Liches), must either drop Necromancy or drop enough other magics to free three magic slots.

 

Necromancers will not know any sacraments by default, even if known previously.  They will be taught by Gravelords shortly after the implementation of the lore.  Necromancers will still need to be taught any spells that they do not know, through normal methods.

 

Myself and two other T5 Necromancers will be grandfathered in as Gravelords, more can be added through roleplay if they meet the requirements. 

 

Ghouls are removed.  As such, any player previously a Ghoul will have their character remain as they became after the Necromancy shelving.  Alternatively, some Ghoul players who were undergoing the process to transform into a Darkstalker before the creation of new lich-type undead was halted may be offered a permanent irreversible grandfathering into a Darkstalker.

 

Darkstalkers can no longer cast Necromancy.  If a player is a Darkstalker that knows Necromancy they will be given the option to instead become a Lich to continue using their Necromancy or stay a Darkstalker and lose the ability to cast Necromancy and all magic.  Outside of this one time scenario, the ritual to transfer between Lichtypes has been done away with.

 

Every Necromancer will make a new Necromancy application and every undead will make a new creature application.  Necromancers may apply to become teachers, but will be required to read the new lore and guide extensively as to be able to confidently pass on knowledge to students.  Additionally, they must themselves learn any new or unlearned spells they wish to teach.  Any Necromancer with an accepted teacher application can teach any Necromancer with a darkhollow.  A darkhollow can only be given to would-be students by a Necromancer that has been taught the Sacrament of Adherence by a Gravelord. 

 

New Necromancers must not only show a clear understanding of the Necromancy magic lore and have their teacher post on their application, but must have a sufficient screenshot of the Sacrament of Adherence, and acquiring of their darkhollow being roleplayed as proof, as well as the Necromancer that performed that sacrament also posting on the application.  If the person performing the sacrament is the person who will be teaching, they can simply say that.  If it turns out that the person performing the Sacrament of Adherence did not actually know it legitimately, the student’s application will be voided and the ritualist will be reported to the Magic Team.

 

 

 

 

 

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nice lore george

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1 hour ago, Tato said:

does this automatically go to previous necromancers/wraiths or is it starting f r e s h ?

 

LT have stated they won’t allow a full wipe to start fresh after they voted on it, so anyone with a MA previously will have one with any future rewrite unless they change their minds.  

 

 

@Geo In regards to bringing back wraiths: I really like the abilities you came up with, but I’m think its just time to pull the plug on them.  I think you could come up with something different as a creature in its place.

 

 

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