Necromancy

Necromancy, known as Death, or also as Death Magic, the Death Art, or the Dark Arts, is the Spiritual School of Magic which focuses on ending, closure, and the inevitable death of all living things. Practitioners of Death, known as Necromancers, steal the life from their enemies and heal themselves in return. On the Triangle of Magic, Death rests between Ice and Storm, because the cold energy of undeath draws on those two forces.
==History==
===Early Necromancy===
The original practitioners of Death Magic were shunned by their societies, as they were written off and punished as plague carriers and spirit thieves. Despite this false label given to some, it was true that many of ill-intent found Necromancy thematically amenable.
One of the worst groups of Necromancy to exist was the Cult of the Corrosive Chorus, a sect from ancient Azteca who loathed the Song of Creation (that was sung by Bartleby to help create the Spiral) and sought to unwrite it. The group traveled across the nascent skyways and summoned Banshees and spectral skulls that could scream a melody so loud it could unmake Worlds. It is believed that Bartleby himself intervened to stop them, sealing them forever in a soundproof prison and cursing them with eternal life.
===Use in schools===
At Ravenwood Academy, the Death School became one of the core six magical studies. The school would come to be taught by the late Malistaire Drake, who was a well-respected professor. However, when tragedy struck and his wife and Ravenwood's Life Professor Sylvia Drake succumbed to a fatal illness, Malistaire went berserk and ripped the School of Death from its spot, tossing it into Nightside.
A Death school was also taught at Dragonspyre Academy, up until the world was ravaged during the cataclysm set forth by the Dragon Titan and his army. The Death school, as well as the Fire school, were the only ones left untouched by the Titan Army.
==Trivia==
* The gemstone of Death is Onyx.
==Behind the scenes==
Death is one of the seven playable Schools in Wizard101.
==Appearances==
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*Ravenwood Roll Call: Cyrus Drake
*Ravenwood Roll Call: Dworgyn
==Notes and references==
==External links==
*Death School | Wizard101 Free Online Game
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Category:Necromancy
Category:Schools of Magic