Necromancy

The power to utilize magic involving the dead, death-force and/or souls. Form of Magic and Dark Arts. Utilized by Necromancers. Magical variation of Death-Force Manipulation. Opposite to Animancy. Not to be confused with Death-Force Arts.
==Also Called==
*Black-Animacy/Dark-Animacy
*Death/Death-Related Commands/Spells
*Necro/Undeath Magic
==Capabilities==
The users either have magical abilities or have powers that revolve around manipulating the dead, death, the death-force and/or souls for good (i.e., resurrecting the dead), evil (in various ways), or neither. They can also communicate with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge. This is most frequently depicted as being able to resurrect the dead to varying to degrees, from shambling corpses to conscious zombies to even complete Resurrection. More powerful users and directly convert the living into the undead, allowing them to bypass conventional durability by turning an opponent into a mindless zombie at the user's control.
Many practitioners find a way to cheat death one way or another, whether by becoming some form of undead creature or by bypassing their own ability to die.
== Applications== 
*Blood Manipulation 
*Carcass Manipulation 
**Bone Manipulation 
**Mold Manipulation - dead matter
**Motor-Skill Manipulation - dead/undead beings
**Preservation Manipulation
***Living & Object State Manipulation
**Remote Possession 
**Restoration Augmentation 
*Damage Inducement/Unhealing/Anti-Regeneration (As it Harms The Living, it could Heal/Regenerate the undead.)
* Death Inducement 
*Death Sense
*Divination - by contacting dead/undead beings
**Osteomancy 
*Ectoplasm Manipulation
**Apparition Materialization 
**Phantasm Manipulation 
**Spiritual Force Manipulation - Varies for more powerful necromancers. 
**Soul Manipulation 
***Soul Absorption 
***Soul Summoning 
***Soul Trapping 
*Energy Manifestation 
**Blood Power
**Dark Power 
**Energy Projection 
**Necro Power 
**Spiritual Power 
*Experience Manipulation - utilizing the tactics, skills and learning of the departed.
*Life-Force Manipulation 
**Aura Absorption 
**Health Manipulation 
**Lazarus Wave Manipulation
**Life-Force Absorption
*Mediumship 
**Afterlife Connection 
**Spiritual Awareness 
**Spiritual Symbiosis 
*Necrosis Inducement 
*Pain Inducement 
*Power Sharing/Borrowing - with undead beings 
**Power Sharing Link
*Reanimation 
*Resurrection 
**Mass Resurrection 
**Self-Resurrection 
*Undead Manipulation
**Ghoul Manipulation 
**Undead Summoning
**Vampire Manipulation
**Zombie Manipulation 
==Techniques==
*Cemetery Empowerment 
*Conjuration - deceased souls and/or corpses 
*Curse Inducement 
*Blood Magic 
*Death Empowerment
*Death-Force Empowerment 
*Death Magic 
*Immortality 
*Necroplasmic Conversion
*Reanimation Empowerment
*Spell Casting
*Spirit Magic
*Undead Conversion 
*Undead Magic
*Voodoo 
==Associations==
*Necromancer
*Dark Arts
*Death-Force Manipulation
* Death Manipulation
*Death Transcendence
*Grim Reaper Physiology
*Hand of Glory Proficiency
*Lich Physiology
*Mystical Conversion
*Nether Magic
*Nether Manipulation
*Rot Inducement
*Spirit Physiology
*Spiritualism
*Spiritualist 
*Undead Physiology
*Vodou Deity Physiology
==Limitations== 
*Anti-Magic/Magic Destruction/Magic Negation/Magic Sealing/Magical Energy Absorption
*May be Weak against Animancy and other Life-Based powers.
*Filth Manipulation may be used against this power.
*Robots and Mechanical Beings are immune to necromancy as they have no souls or life force.
*May have no effect on those who found eternal rest.
*User can bring back others, but probably not their powers with them.
==Known Users==
See Also: Necromancer.
===Anime/Manga/Manhwa===
• Sungwoo Yu (Lone Necromancer)
===Cartoons/Comics===
=== Folklore/Mythology===
*Merlin (Arthurian Legends)
*Witch Of Endor (Christianity)
*Anubis (Egyptian Mythology)
*Osiris (Egyptian Mythology)
*Hades/Pluto (Greco-Roman Mythology)
*Hecate/Trivia (Greco-Roman Mythology)
*Hel/Hela (Norse Mythology)
*The Devil (Christianity/Islam)
===Literature===
===Live Television/Movies===
===Tabletop Games===
*Vecna (AD&D)
*Velsharoon (AD&D)
* Liliana Vess (Magic: The Gathering)
*Necromancer class (RPGs)
*The Necromancer (Small World: Necromancer Island)
*Sin-Eaters (Geist: The Sin-Eaters)
*Moros path (Mage: The Awakening)
=== Video Games===
===Web Comic===
*Jacob Deegan (Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire)
*The Oracle (The Order of the Stick)
*Various Characters (The Order of the Stick)
**Xykon
**Redcloak
**Vampire Durkon
**Malack
**Tsukiko
===Other===
==Known Objects==
*Alpha Rune (Ben 10 Series)
*Scottish Book of the Dead (Catscratch)
*Book of Shadows (Corpse Party: Book Of Shadows)
*Lazarus Pit (DC Comics)
*Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Evil Dead)
*Claws of Hades (God of War)
*So'unga (Inuyasha)
*Isildur's Ring of Power (Middle-earth: Shadow of War)
*Black Volume of the Dead (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
*Sword of the Necromancer (Sword of the Necromancer)
*Book of the Dead (The Mummy)
*The Black Cauldron (The Black Cauldron)
*Yatsufusa (Akame ga kill)
==Gallery==
===Anime/Manga/Manhwa===
Sakuyamon X (Digimon).jpg|Aside from its powerful Onmyōdō magic, Sakuyamon X (Digimon) is also said to be a skilled necromancer.
Eucliwood Hellscythe.jpg|Eucliwood Hellscythe (Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?)
Keith's Necromancy.jpg|Keith (Fairy Tail) is revealed to be a Necromancer.
Merascylla.png|Merascylla (The Seven Deadly Sins) can raise the dead with their rage and spite powering them.
So'unga.jpg|So'unga (Inuyasha) is a demon sword with tremendous necromantic powers, allowing the reanimation of hundreds of dead souls and open a massive portal to the netherworld that can absorb the entire world.
Ainz Ooal Gown Wall of Skeleton.png|Ainz Ooal Gown (Overlord) specializes in necromancy.
Nakamura Eri.png|Eri Nakamura (Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekaisaikyou) is a genius necromancer, who can reanimate hundreds of corpses and interface directly with the souls of the dead.
Vandalieu.png|As one of the few wields of death-attribute magic, Vandalieu (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time) can take the soul of any being and use it to reanimate the dead or create Golems, Cursed Weapons or Living Armour.
Faust VIII & Eliza (Shaman King).jpg|Nicknamed the Boneyard Sorcerer, Johann Faust VIII (Shaman King) is a highly skilled Shaman specializing in Necromancy, able to reanimate not only his Guardian Ghost but also control an entire army of skeletons.
Solo Leveling SJW's army.jpg|The Shadow Monarch, Sung Jinwoo (Solo Leveling) can create Shadow Soldiers and Beast from the dead to serve him.
Kabuto Demonstrates Edo Tensei.png|The Edo Tensei Jutsu (Naruto) is a forbidden based necromancy Jutsu which summons Souls from the afterlife and bound them to a live sacrifice to serve as their vessels, depending on the user the souls can retain their own minds or be subjugated by the users' will.
Nea (The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic).png|Nea (The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic) inherited her necromancy abilities from her mother. With them, she can control the living and the dead to act as her soldiers.
File:Jack (Buster Keel).jpg|Jack (Buster Keel)
===Cartoons===
DEEBEFE2-E11F-4443-ABA1-4DA3B455147D.jpeg|Councilor Chang (American Dragon: Jake Long) using a powerful Resurrection Spell to bring The Dark Dragon back to life and infuse him with even more dark powers than he had before, making him nearly impossible to defeat than he was last time.
Charmcaster Absorbing Souls In Ledgerdomain.gif|Charmcaster (Ben 10 Series) using a dark resurrection spell to bring her father back from the dead which requires all the living souls in Ledgerdomain.
The-Wind-Jackals-of-Mozenrath.jpg|Mozenrath (Aladdin: The Animated Series) can use his gauntlet to summon an army of Mamluks, undead zombies with one of them being his stepfather/mentor Destante the original ruler of the Land of the Black Sand.
Horned King (The Black Cauldron).jpg|Horned King (The Black Cauldron)
Pastmaster (Master of Necromancy).webp|Pastmaster (Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron)
Demongo and his army of Soul Warriors.jpg|Demongo (Samurai Jack)
===Comics===
Shadowman.jpeg|Jack Boniface/Shadowman (Valiant Comics) In a possible future, Jack while in his Shadowman guise, was shown commanding reanimated skeletons to do his bidding
Bloodwynd.jpg|Bloodwynd (DC Comics)
Nora FriesLazara RISE.jpg|Nora Fries/Lazara (DC Comics)
Spawn.jpg|Spawn (Image Comics)
Suma-Ket (Marvel Comics).png|Suma-Ket (Marvel Comics)
Morgan le Fay (Marvel Comics) knight.jpg|Morgan le Fay (Marvel Comics) was very powerful in necromancy so much so that Doom actually traveled back in time in order to learn from her how to create an army of monsters as well as cast a spell to re-animate every person killed by the sword Excalibur by using a shard of the sword itself in an effort to create an army of the dead.
Calypso (Marvel Comics).jpg|Calypso Ezili (Marvel Comics)
Baphomet The Wicked + The Divine.jpg|Baphomet (The Wicked + The Divine) is able to summon the spirits of the dead.
Raven Hex (Witch of The Black Rose).jpg|Raven Hex (Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose) is a witch that follows a dark-path, and in doing so she was known for using forbidden and dark magic including necromancy to use as she sees fit.
Anubis.jpg|Walt Stone (Kane Chronicles) is the permanent host of Anubis and has displayed the ability to summon undead warriors from a crack in the ground. They can drag enemies into the Underworld. He can also summon people or spirits from graveyards, although for a short time.
Wanda Maximoff (Earth 616 Marvel).jpg|Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)
Lady-death-hentai-239116.png|Lady Death (Chaos! Comics) 
===Live Television/Movies===
Necronomicon Ex-Mortis Evil Dead.gif|Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Evil Dead), the Book of the Dead.
Ahmanet from The Mummy.jpg|Through a pact she made with Set, Ahmanet (Dark Universe) gained tremendous power over necromancy, able to reanimate herself as an undead, mummify people and even reanimate dead corpses that abide by her will.
Mummy The Book of the Dead.jpg|Book of the Dead (The Mummy)
Hela (Earth-199999) from Thor Ragnarok 001.jpg|As the "Goddess of Death," Hela (Marvel Cinematic Universe) was being able to resurrect her allies, her pet wolf Fenris and her Berserkers, using a handful of flame from the Eternal Flame and tossing it against the ground to create a huge blast of green infernal energy.
The Necromancer VD.webp|The Necromancer (Legacies)
===Others===
malcolm_fade.jpg|Malcolm Fade (Shadowhunter Chronicles) attempted to use necromancy to resurrect his lost lover.
6683.NECROMANCER01.jpg|A Necromancer manipulating the souls of the dead.
Necromancer.jpg
Nico di Angelo.jpg|Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson and the Olympians/The Heroes of Olympus), as a son of Hades the Greek God of the dead.
Osiris GN.jpg|Julius Kane (Kane Chronicles) is the permanent host of Osiris the god of underworld As the Ruler of the Land of the Dead, he has divine authority and complete control over the dead.
===Video Games===
Nokris.jpg|Nokris (Destiny) is a well-known Heretic who uses Necromancy.
Necromancer-melee.jpg|Xul The Necromancer (Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction)
Sidony.png|Sidony (Dragon Age)
Quan Chi MK9.png|Quan Chi (Mortal Kombat) is a powerful necromancer.
Dark raiden liu kang.PNG|Raiden (Mortal Kombat) using the necromancy techniques of the Houan cult to reanimate Liu Kang.
Skylanders Hex.jpeg|Hex (Skylanders)
MzRuby artwork.png|As the Chief Mystic of the Fiendish Five, Mz. Ruby's (Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus) powers allow her to break both the laws of man and nature at the same time.
Ultima.jpg|A Necromancer (Ultima Online)
Necromancer Nadia.png|Necromancer Nadia (Valkyrie Connect)
Gandalf Rip Off.jpg|A Necromancer (Warcraft 3)
MalornAshthorn.png|Necromancers (Wizard 101) are wizards and witches from the School of Death, their specialties versed around death magic.
Necromancer H.png|Necromancer (Valkyrie Crusade)
Sania H.png|Sania (Valkyrie Crusade) the goddess of the dead.
Necro Hottie.jpg|Necromancer (Guild Wars)
Conjuration Skyrim Symbol.png|Conjuration (The Elder Scrolls) is the school of magic that allows manipulation of certain aspects of the soul. Including summoning and reanimating the dead.
Shadow-of-War-Zog.jpg|Zog the Eternal (Shadow of War) is an Uruk necromancer that was inspired by Talion's inability to die to create a legion of undead orcs and resurrect the Balrog Tar Goroth to serve Lord Sauron.
Nightsister Merrin Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Necromancy.jpg|Nightsister Merrin (Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order) making use of Dathomir magick to invoke a mass reanimation of her fellow Sisters.
==Videos==
World of Warcraft- Wrath of the Lich King Cinematic Trailer
Sauron VS Lich King (Lord of the Rings VS World of Warcraft) - DEATH BATTLE!-2
Ganondorf VS Dracula (Zelda VS Castlevania) - DEATH BATTLE!-2
DIO VS Alucard (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure VS Hellsing) - DEATH BATTLE!
Shao Kahn VS M. Bison (Mortal Kombat VS Street Fighter) - DEATH BATTLE!
Misty Day Introduction - Resurgence - AHS Coven-2
===Analysis & Discussions===
Sauron in the First Age - Tolkien Explained-2
The Nine Rings of Power for Men (Ringwraiths) - Tolkien Explained-2
D&D 5E Animate Dead-2
Why Death Magic is Evil-2
===Music===
Michael Jackson - Thriller (Official Video)
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