Necromancer (Dalmer)

To the Dalmer, necromancy and seer treatments are the undead equivalent of healthcare, psychiatric help and emergency medical teams.
Dalmer necromancers have a similar role to that of midwives. Typically they try to reassure the recently deceased that the process is natural, and encourage them to "get up". If the raising is complex, such as in cases where a flesh golem and a skeleton are raised, or a Specter emerges from the deceased, necromizers can be used. A necromizer is a piece of technology that forcefully separates undead entities. The item can also forcefully raise an undead but this function is rarely used.
== Undead healthcare ==
=== Access to necromancy and seer treatments===
The main problem with modern necromancy is the rarity of the Dalmer who are willing to pursue a career in the field. Because provider programs aren't sophisticated enough to practice undead psychotherapy and demand isn't high enough to warrant public funding, the only practitioners at the time were amateurish and often incompetent. This made Specters and Banshee meltdowns due to inadequate care a black spot on undead/living relations.
However, after an invisible Banshee had a meltdown that caused an entire block to suffer from hearing loss, public funding was provided to develop necromancy and seer programs in hospitals.
Necromancer refers to someone who practices medicine or surgery on the undead, Seers refers to a necromancer who practices Necropsychology. Necromancers and Seers are also trained in Exorcism as sometimes external forces are at work that require a body to be exorcised before necromancy can be practiced.
== Undead practitioners ==
=== Necromancers ===
A physician and surgeon for the undead, Necromancers are in charge of creating physical undead from the recently deceased. Also perform post mortem surgeries such undead enhancements and embalming.
In Dalmer culture Necromancers are medical experts that work to ensure the recently deceased produce conscious able bodied undead, they are presented with the recently deceased, give a diagnosis and give treatment in order to have the patient return as one or several forms of physical and/or immaterial undead. Necromancers also treat the undead after their initial rising, the most often for the purpose of skeletification.
=== Seers ===
Main article: Necropsychology
Necropsychology refers to the psychological treatment of the undead. This discipline is often performed by Seers.
A psychologist for the undead, Seers are in charge of creating immaterial undead from the recently deceased. Seers also practice psychotherapy on the undead in order to facilitate their transition into undeath, which can be traumatic for some, especially in case of violent death.
As part of their training, Seers can make use of Parasight to see invisible undead. Seers are essential to the treatment of Specters and Banshees.
Seers are physicians specialized in treating the undead with psychological issues. Seering or necropsychology is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction with adults, to help an undead person change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways.
==== Specters ====
Main article: Specters
Another reason critical to the presence of Seers Post vitam, is the fact that animi can accidentally combine into specters. Specters are very powerful combinations of two animi who must be separated, a Banshee is the combination of all three animi. Their dangerosity is twofold, as specters are essentially two extremely fragile personalities forced into one entity with vast powers. The danger that Specters and Banshees pose is often a prompt that results in more funding for Necromancer and Seer services across the Empire.
However, it has been recently researched and shown that systematic separation of specters or banshees is sometimes even more damaging psychologically for the undead.
Specters come in several combinations
Ghost 	Spirit	Phi Specter 	Possession of people with telekinesis
Soul 	Ghost 	Zeta Specter	Mass object haunting with extra effects
Spirit	Soul 	Tau Specter 	Possession of people with powers
=== Deathknell ===
A hospital agent (usually undead but not always) whose role is to ease an agitated undead into its new existence. They usually track the recently dead who weren't warped to a medbay in time in order to help them overcome the trauma and seek professional necropsychological help. Deathknells are usually the first responders, accompanying necromancers and seers on the field as helping hands.
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