Necromancy

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Necromancy

“	My beloved warriors have come to life. All the dead of centuries past - never has anyone created an army like this!	„
	~ The Horned King

Necromancy, alternatively known as Nagomancy, Negromancy, Nigromancy and Necyomancy, is the forbidden art of summoning the dead to do one's bidding. This form of sorcery is also used in communicating with spirits as well as simply reanimating the deceased.

The very magical abilities cogitates around controlling the dead, death, the death-force and/or souls for good (i.e., reviving the departed), evil (in various ways) or neither. They can also convey 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 events to come, or discover hidden knowledge.

Many practitioners of this trade 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.

In the real-world, spellcasters do this practice to try and prophecise future events or gain wishes.

In fiction, however, many Necromancers raise the dead from beyond the grave to act as servants and soldiers in grand schemes of conquest: some of the more extreme examples of Necromancers may also seek to exterminate the living and replace them with the "undead" or the "living dead".

Necrokinesis

There also exists a similar (fictional or otherwise) but different ability to reanimate and influence the dead by by force of the mind alone called "Necrokinesis".

Examples

Known Users

Cartoons

• Chernabog (Disney's Fantasia).
• The Lich (Adventure Time).
• Mozenrath (Aladdin: The Animated Series).
• The Horned King (Disney's The Black Cauldron).
• The Cauldron Born (Disney's The Black Cauldron).
• The Pastmaster (Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron).
• Mumm-Ra (Thundercats).
• Aku (Samurai Jack).
• Grogar (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic).

Comics

• Nekron (DC Comics).
• Violater (Image).
• The Phlebiac Brothers (Image).
• Morgan le Fay (Marvel).
• Nerissa (W.I.T.C.H.).

Anime

• Zombie Master (Yu-Gi-Oh).

Mythology/Folklore

• Hades/Pluto (Greco-Roman mythology).
• Hecate/Trivia (Greco-Roman mythology).
• Hel/Hela (Norse mythology).

Literature

• Arawn Death-Lord (The Chronicles of Prydain).
• The Horned King (The Chronicles of Prydain).
• Randall Flagg (The Dark Tower).
• Count Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula).
• Sauron (Lord of the Rings).
• Wendigo (Pet Sematary).

Films

• Evil Ash (Army of Darkness).
• Mathias (Fading of the Cries).
• Zombies (Fading of the Cries).

Videogames

• God of War
  • Kratos; via Army of Hades, Claws of Hades and Soul of Hades
  • Hades
• Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda).
• Swan (Lollipop Chainsaw).
• Zarok (MediEvil).
• Mortal Kombat:
  • Lord Shinnok
  • Brotherhood of Shadow
  • Quan Chi
  • Onaga the Dragon King
  • The Dragon King's Army
  • Raiden

Other

• Thriller (Michael Jackson's Thriller).
• Sonic.EXE (Creepypasta).
• Slender Man (The Slender Man Mythos).

Known Objects

Films

• Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Evil Dead).
• Book of the Dead (The Mummy).