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Necromancy is the dark art of death magic. At the lower levels, there is an assortment of rather nefarious abilities. Soon though, the ability of Cannibalism is gained, a skill which has inspired wide-spread fear of those practicing Necromancy. Through cannibalism, a Necromancer increases his life essence, which powers the higher abilities. At the very highest level, a Necromancer gains the power to protect his very soul from death.
Necromancy is the dark art of death magic. At the lower levels, there is an assortment of rather nefarious abilities. Soon though, the ability of Cannibalism is gained, a skill which has inspired wide-spread fear of those practicing Necromancy. Through cannibalism, a Necromancer increases his life essence, which powers the higher abilities. At the very highest level, a Necromancer gains the power to protect his very soul from death.


The ability to regain the [[life essence]] necessary to use Necromancy may be sealed from individuals by the [[Dread Ecclesiarch of Transvital Corruption]], should they prove themselves to be directly against the ideals of the [[Lords of Evil]]. One who has undergone this process is said to be in [[anathema]].
The ability to regain the [[life essence]] necessary to use Necromancy may be sealed from individuals by the [[Dread Ecclesiarch of Transvital Corruption]], should they prove themselves to be directly against the ideals of the [[Lords of Evil]]. One who has undergone this process is said to be in [[anathema (severance)|anathema]].


'''Necromancy''' is practised by the [[Apostate]] and [[Infernal]] classes. Once practised by the [[Occultist]] class as well, the skill was abandoned with the rediscovery of [[Occultism]] in the [[Modern Age]].
The skill of '''Necromancy''' is available to members of the [[Apostate]] [[class]], along with [[Evileye]] and [[Apostasy]]. Once practised by the [[Occultist]] and [[Infernal]] classes as well.


Apostates also practise the skills of [[Evileye]] and [[Apostasy]], while Infernals also have the skills of [[Chivalry]] and [[Weaponmastery]].


 
==Abilities in Necromancy==
===[[Abilities]] in Necromancy===
{{Skill_detail
{{Skill_detail
  |skill=Deathsight
  |skill=Deathsight
  |description=Attune yourself to the Underworld.
  |description=Attune yourself to the Underworld.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=0
  |syntax=DEATHSIGHT<br>RELAX DEATHSIGHT
  |syntax=DEATHSIGHT<br>RELAX DEATHSIGHT
  |required=50 mana
  |required=50 mana
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  |skill=Chill
  |skill=Chill
  |description=Send the cold of the grave to plague an opponent.
  |description=Send the cold of the grave to plague an opponent.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=7
  |syntax=CHILL <target><br>CHILL <direction>
  |syntax=CHILL <target><br>CHILL <direction>
  |required=100 mana
  |required=100 mana
  |target=Adventurers
  |target=Adventurers
  |cooldown=2.20 seconds of equilibrium
  |cooldown=2.20 seconds of equilibrium
  |detail=Use this ability to freeze an adventurer in two or three stages. If the target has a caloric salve applied, this will nullify the caloric salve. If he doesn't, then it will set him shivering, which will regularly cause him to lose equilibrium. If you chill a shivering adventurer, you will freeze him completely.<br><br>Additionally, you may target this in a given direction, destroying any firewall that may be blocking that exit.
  |detail=Use this ability to freeze an adventurer in two or three stages. If the target has a caloric salve applied, this will nullify the caloric salve. If he doesn't, then it will set him shivering, which will regularly cause him to lose equilibrium. If you chill a shivering adventurer, you will freeze him completely.<p>Additionally, you may target this in a given direction, destroying any firewall that may be blocking that exit.</p>
}}
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  |skill=Sense
  |skill=Sense
  |description=Seek out the life force of another being.
  |description=Seek out the life force of another being.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=16
  |syntax=SENSE <target>
  |syntax=SENSE <target>
  |required=20 mana
  |required=20 mana
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  |skill=Decay
  |skill=Decay
  |description=Causing your opponent's flesh to decay.
  |description=Causing your opponent's flesh to decay.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=23
  |syntax=DECAY <target>
  |syntax=DECAY <target>
  |required=80 mana
  |required=80 mana
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  |skill=Night
  |skill=Night
  |description=Create darkness in the room.
  |description=Create darkness in the room.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=34
  |syntax=NIGHT
  |syntax=NIGHT
  |required=50 mana
  |required=50 mana
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  |skill=Shroud
  |skill=Shroud
  |description=Perform many actions in secret.
  |description=Perform many actions in secret.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=56
  |syntax=SHROUD<br>UNSHROUD
  |syntax=SHROUD<br>UNSHROUD
  |required=70 mana
  |required=70 mana
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  |skill=Screech
  |skill=Screech
  |description=The shriek of the banshee.
  |description=The shriek of the banshee.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=89
  |syntax=SCREECH
  |syntax=SCREECH
  |required=70 mana
  |required=70 mana
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  |skill=Taint
  |skill=Taint
  |description=Attack those with pure souls.
  |description=Attack those with pure souls.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=112
  |syntax=TAINT <target>
  |syntax=TAINT <target>
  |required=50 mana
  |required=50 mana
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  |skill=Feed
  |skill=Feed
  |description=Derive sustenance from another being.
  |description=Derive sustenance from another being.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=134
  |syntax=FEED <target>
  |syntax=FEED <target>
  |required=150 mana
  |required=150 mana
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  |skill=Leech
  |skill=Leech
  |description=Leech away the mental energy of your target.
  |description=Leech away the mental energy of your target.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=156
  |syntax=LEECH <target>
  |syntax=LEECH <target>
  |required=50 mana
  |required=50 mana
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  |skill=Lifevision
  |skill=Lifevision
  |description=Allows you to see many hidden beings.
  |description=Allows you to see many hidden beings.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=178
  |syntax=LIFEVISION
  |syntax=LIFEVISION
  |required=600 mana
  |required=600 mana
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  |skill=Shrivel
  |skill=Shrivel
  |description=Cause your opponent's limbs to shrivel up.
  |description=Cause your opponent's limbs to shrivel up.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=223
  |syntax=SHRIVEL <arms/legs> <target><br>SHRIVEL <left/right> <arm/leg> <target>
  |syntax=SHRIVEL <arms/legs> <target><br>SHRIVEL <left/right> <arm/leg> <target>
  |required=300 mana
  |required=300 mana
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  |skill=Cannibalism
  |skill=Cannibalism
  |description=Rip out and consume the heart of your victims.
  |description=Rip out and consume the heart of your victims.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=267
  |syntax=DRAW HEART<br>CONSUME HEART
  |syntax=DRAW HEART<br>CONSUME HEART
  |required=
  |required=
  |target=
  |target=
  |cooldown=4.00 seconds of balance
  |cooldown=4.00 seconds of balance
  |detail=This is truly the joy of the Necromancer. If there is a corpse on the ground that has not already been victimised by a fellow Necromancer, you may DRAW HEART. Then, in an orgy of gastronomic pleasure, you may CONSUME HEART. The greater the experience of the adventurer who provided the heart, the greater your gain in life essence will be. Enjoy this pleasure, my murderous friend, for there are few greater in life or death.<br><br>It is important to note that how much life essence you get is modified by the experience of your victim.  
  |detail=This is truly the joy of the Necromancer. If there is a corpse on the ground that has not already been victimised by a fellow Necromancer, you may DRAW HEART. Then, in an orgy of gastronomic pleasure, you may CONSUME HEART. The greater the experience of the adventurer who provided the heart, the greater your gain in life essence will be. Enjoy this pleasure, my murderous friend, for there are few greater in life or death.<p>It is important to note that how much life essence you get is modified by the experience of your victim.</p>
}}
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  |skill=Essence
  |skill=Essence
  |description=Sense about how much life essence you have.
  |description=Sense about how much life essence you have.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=267
  |syntax=ESSENCE
  |syntax=ESSENCE
  |required=
  |required=
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  |skill=Sapience
  |skill=Sapience
  |description=Draw upon your essence to increase your mana.
  |description=Draw upon your essence to increase your mana.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=289
  |syntax=SAPIENCE
  |syntax=SAPIENCE
  |required=1.50% life essence
  |required=1.50% life essence
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  |skill=Vigour
  |skill=Vigour
  |description=Draw upon your essence to increase your health.
  |description=Draw upon your essence to increase your health.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=334
  |syntax=VIGOUR
  |syntax=VIGOUR
  |required=1.50% life essence
  |required=1.50% life essence
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  |skill=Putrefaction
  |skill=Putrefaction
  |description=Cause your flesh to decay and melt.
  |description=Cause your flesh to decay and melt.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=423
  |syntax=PUTREFACTION<br>SOLIDIFY
  |syntax=PUTREFACTION<br>SOLIDIFY
  |required=1% life essence and health drain
  |required=1% life essence and health drain
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  |skill=Drain
  |skill=Drain
  |description=Drain your life essence into another Necromancer.
  |description=Drain your life essence into another Necromancer.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=467
  |syntax=DRAIN <target>
  |syntax=DRAIN <target>
  |required=Life essence drain
  |required=Life essence drain
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  |skill=Belch
  |skill=Belch
  |description=Spew forth a noxious gas.
  |description=Spew forth a noxious gas.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=534
  |syntax=BELCH
  |syntax=BELCH
  |required=200 mana
  |required=200 mana
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  |skill=Deathaura
  |skill=Deathaura
  |description=Surround yourself in a miasma of evil.
  |description=Surround yourself in a miasma of evil.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=534
  |syntax=DEATHAURA
  |syntax=DEATHAURA
  |required=1% life essence and 300 mana
  |required=1% life essence and 300 mana
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  |skill=Disfigure
  |skill=Disfigure
  |description=Curse someone with the visage of a rotting corpse.
  |description=Curse someone with the visage of a rotting corpse.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=600
  |syntax=DISFIGURE <target>
  |syntax=DISFIGURE <target>
  |required=
  |required=
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  |skill=Soulstorm
  |skill=Soulstorm
  |description=Driving animal spirits away.
  |description=Driving animal spirits away.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=703
  |syntax=SOULSTORM <target>
  |syntax=SOULSTORM <target>
  |required=1% life essence
  |required=1% life essence
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  |skill=Gravehands
  |skill=Gravehands
  |description=Summon the hands of the grave to hinder your opponents.
  |description=Summon the hands of the grave to hinder your opponents.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=910
  |syntax=
  |syntax=SUMMON HANDS OF THE GRAVE<br>BANISH HANDS OF THE GRAVE
  |required=
  |required=1.50% life essence and 350 mana
  |target=
  |target=Adventurers
  |cooldown=
  |cooldown=3.00 seconds of equilibrium
  |detail=
  |detail=This ability will cause rotting hands to rise up from the ground to grab at the ankles of any who try to leave the location. The only ones who will not be affected are those who serve Evil in the city of Mhaldor.
}}
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  |skill=Leprosy
  |skill=Leprosy
  |description=Spread disease to all around you.
  |description=Spread disease to all around you.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=910
  |syntax=
  |syntax=LEPROSY
  |required=
  |required=3.50% life essence and 500 mana
  |target=
  |target=Room
  |cooldown=
  |cooldown=4.50 seconds of equilibrium
  |detail=
  |detail=By filling your body with the unclean, you can infect many others in the room with you, be they friend or foe, causing random limbs to shrivel up. Useful against a group.
}}
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  |skill=Exterminate
  |skill=Exterminate
  |description=Destroy all plant life in a location.
  |description=Destroy all plant life in a location.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=1048
  |syntax=
  |syntax=EXTERMINATE
  |required=
  |required=5% life essence and 1000 mana
  |target=
  |target=Room
  |cooldown=
  |cooldown=6.00 seconds of equilibrium and 12.00 upon completion
  |detail=
  |detail=Using your command of the energies of death, you are able to wipe a forest area clean of plant life, replenishing some of your essence. Be warned though, there is an essence cost to this ability, and unless there is a sufficient amount of plant life in the room, you may lose essence using it. It should also be noted that an exterminated room is no longer considered a forest room, so many Druidic abilities will not work in such a room.<p>Take note: prolonged use of extermination will take a toll on your essence reserves, and you will find that each subsequent attempt incurs a greater cost in essence than the last to perform.</p>
}}
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  |skill=Vengeance
  |skill=Vengeance
  |description=Revenge with your dying breath.
  |description=Revenge with your dying breath.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=1186
  |syntax=
  |syntax=VENGEANCE [ON/OFF]<br>RELAX VENGEANCE
  |required=
  |required=4% life essence
  |target=
  |target=Room
  |cooldown=
  |cooldown=4.00 seconds of equilibrium
  |detail=
  |detail=At the cost of a fair amount of life essence, you will exact revenge on everyone in the room when you are killed, in most circumstances.
}}
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  |skill=Soulspear
  |skill=Soulspear
  |description=Meld soul-matter from the dead into a physical weapon.
  |description=Meld soul-matter from the dead into a physical weapon.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=1289
  |syntax=
  |syntax=EVOKE SOULSPEAR FROM <target corpse><br>THROW SOULSPEAR AT <target> <direction>
  |required=
  |required=2.50% life essence
  |target=
  |target=Adventurers
  |cooldown=
  |cooldown=6.00 seconds of balance
  |detail=
  |detail=Soulspear allows the skilled Necromancer to form a weapon forged in the soul of the dead. By taking an adventurer corpse, you can form the soulspear. A corpse from an adventurer level 30 and under has too weak a soul to form such a powerful weapon out of. Beyond that, the higher the level of the victim, the more powerful the soulspear.<p>Once you have it, you may throw it at someone who is outside your room, anywhere in your line-of-sight. It will shatter shields and prismatic barriers, or, if the person lacks one of those, the necromantic energy will be released, summoning forth hands of the grave in your victim's location.</p>
}}
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  |skill=Transverse
  |skill=Transverse
  |description=Cross vast distances in a single step.
  |description=Cross vast distances in a single step.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=1358
  |syntax=
  |syntax=TRANSVERSE <target>
  |required=
  |required=2% life essence and 500 mana
  |target=
  |target=Adventurers
  |cooldown=
  |cooldown=3.00 seconds of equilibrium
  |detail=
  |detail=This ability allows for swift travel across the land. You must initiate the activation from a room where hands of the grave have been summoned forth.<p>If your target also stands in a room where the hands grasp at the living, this travel is instantaneous. If the hands are not present, the target is required to be a practitioner of necromancy, and the travel will be delayed.</p>
}}
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  |skill=Blackwind
  |skill=Blackwind
  |description=Assume the form of the deadly blackwind.
  |description=Assume the form of the deadly blackwind.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=1427
  |syntax=
  |syntax=BLACKWIND<br>HUMAN<br>CHOKE <target><br>SURGE <direction>
  |required=
  |required=5% life essence, 500 mana and willpower drain
  |target=
  |target=Adventurers
  |cooldown=
  |cooldown=4.00 seconds of equilibrium
  |detail=
  |detail=This allows you to take the form of the deadly blackwind. While in this form, your freedom is severely limited, but your ability to be harmed is also severely restricted. After you have become the blackwind, you have the nefarious ability to slip down a victim's throat and CHOKE him. While in blackwind form, you will lose willpower very quickly as you strain to hold your nebulous form together. HUMAN is the command to return to your normal form.<p>In addition, you may SURGE in a direction to bypass closed doors, though this is a channeled action and will not bypass doors that are locked.</p>
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  |skill=Desecration
  |skill=Desecration
  |description=Banish the holy rites of the Bloodsworn Gods.
  |description=Banish the holy rites of the Bloodsworn Gods.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=1531
  |syntax=
  |syntax=DESECRATE <rite>
  |required=
  |required=3.50% life essence and 500 mana
  |target=
  |target=Room
  |cooldown=
  |cooldown=4.00 seconds of balance
  |detail=
  |detail=Using your Necromantic essence, you may sever any devotional rites from the location in which you stand. If the layer of the rite is present, this ability takes some time, during which you may make no actions.
}}
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  |skill=Vivisect
  |skill=Vivisect
  |description=Rip your victim's chest open and torture him to death.
  |description=Rip your victim's chest open and torture him to death.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=1565
  |syntax=
  |syntax=VIVISECT <target>
  |required=
  |required=300 mana
  |target=
  |target=Adventurers
  |cooldown=
  |cooldown=4.00 seconds of equilibrium
  |detail=
  |detail=Evil as you are, you find yourself enjoying live experimentation, preferably on people you know. Once your victim is splayed out and helpless, meaning all four of his or her limbs are withered, you may perform your experiments, killing your victim in horrifying agony.
}}
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  |skill=Soulcage
  |skill=Soulcage
  |description=Harness your life essence to escape death itself.
  |description=Harness your life essence to escape death itself.
  |lessons=
  |lessons=1736
  |syntax=
  |syntax=SOULCAGE ACTIVATE<br>SOULCAGE DEACTIVATE<br>SOULCAGE STATUS
  |required=
  |required=New soulcage (30% life essence), Reactivate (3%), Deactivate (2%)
|target=
|cooldown=
|detail=
}}
 
{{Skill_detail
|skill=Infestation
|description=Summon vile maggots from the depths.
|lessons=
|syntax=
|required=
  |target=
  |target=
  |cooldown=
  |cooldown=12.00 seconds of equilibrium
  |detail=
  |detail=This is perhaps the greatest of the necromantic abilities, and carries with it the greatest life essence cost. It allows you to spin a web of life essence around your very soul, protecting it from death. Soulcage may only be used once every 6 Achaean days.<p>The soulcage can be deactivated by raising a barrier of life essence between it and your soul, preventing it from saving you from death. It may be reactivated later for a much lower essence cost.</p><p>SOULCAGE STATUS will show the current state of your soulcage, if any.</p>
}}
}}
]
:''Infestation is an Infernal-only ability.''
{| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2
| bgcolor=#cccccc | '''Ability'''
| bgcolor=#cccccc | '''Description'''
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''[[Deathsight]]'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Attune yourself to the Underworld.
|-
| colspan=2 bgcolor=#a3937a |
: '''Known:''' Yes
: '''Syntax:'''            DEATHSIGHT
::: RELAX DEATHSIGHT
: '''Details:'''
Using this ability, you will touch the mind of Thoth, the Deathgod. While doing so, you will be alerted whenever anyone dies.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Chill'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Send the cold of the grave to plague an opponent.
|-
| colspan=2 bgcolor=#a3937a |
: '''Known:''' No (6 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            CHILL <adventurer>
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
Use this ability to freeze an adventurer in two or three stages. If the target has a caloric salve applied, this will nullify the caloric salve. If he doesn't, then it will set him shivering, which will regularly cause him to lose equilibrium. If you chill a shivering adventurer, you will freeze him completely.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Sense'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Seek out the life force of another being.
|-
| colspan=2 bgcolor=#a3937a |
: '''Known:''' No (15 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            SENSE <adventurer>
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
You will seek out the very life essence of an adventurer, gaining you the knowledge of his location.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Decay'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Causing your opponent's flesh to decay.
|-
| colspan=2 bgcolor=#a3937a |
: '''Known:''' No (22 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            DECAY <target>
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers and denizens
: '''Details:'''
You have gained the standard attack of the Necromancer. Your touch is enough to cause the flesh of your victim to wither. It does magical damage.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Night'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Create darkness in the room.
|-
| colspan=2 bgcolor=#a3937a |
: '''Known:''' No (33 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            NIGHT
: '''Works on/against:'''  Room
: '''Details:'''
Cast a shroud of darkness over a location.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''[[Shroud]]'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Perform many actions in secret.
|-
| colspan=2 bgcolor=#a3937a |
: '''Known:''' No (55 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            SHROUD
::: UNSHROUD
: '''Details:'''
This will draw a shroud of concealment over your actions.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Screech'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | The shriek of the banshee.
|-
| colspan=2 bgcolor=#a3937a |
: '''Known:''' No (88 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            SCREECH
: '''Works on/against:'''  Room
: '''Details:'''
You have gained the power of the banshee. Your very scream will drive those who can hear you out of the location.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Taint'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Attack those with pure souls.
|-
| colspan=2 bgcolor=#a3937a |
: '''Known:''' No (111 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            TAINT <adventurer>
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
This ability will use your evil necromantic power to attack other adventurers.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Feed'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Derive sustenance from another being.
|-
| colspan=2 bgcolor=#a3937a |
: '''Known:''' No (133 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            FEED <adventurer>
                 
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 1.5%
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
You are now able to literally drain the nourishment from another adventurer in a display of cruelty.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Leech'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Leech away the mental energy of your target.
|-
| colspan=2 bgcolor=#a3937a |
: '''Known:''' No (155 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            LEECH <adventurer>
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
This is the skill of draining another's mental energy to add to your own.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Lifevision'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Allows you to see many hidden beings.
|-
| colspan=2 bgcolor=#a3937a |
: '''Known:''' No (177 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            LIFEVISION
: '''Details:'''
You are attuned to the life essences of all living beings, and with this power, you will see through many illusions and hiding defences.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Shrivel'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Cause your opponent's limbs to shrivel up.
|-
| colspan=2 bgcolor=#a3937a |
: '''Known:''' No (222 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            SHRIVEL <arms/legs> <adventurer>
::: SHRIVEL <left/right> <arm/leg> <adventurer>
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
By grabbing onto the limb of an adventurer, you can destroy its marrow, rendering it useless.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Cannibalism'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Rip out and consume the heart of your victims.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (266 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            DRAW HEART
::: CONSUME HEART
: '''Works on/against:'''  None
: '''Details:'''
This is truly the joy of the Necromancer. If there is a corpse on the ground that has not already been victimized by a fellow Necromancer, you may DRAW HEART. Then, in an orgy of gastronomic pleasure, you may CONSUME HEART. The greater the experience of the adventurer who provided the heart, the greater your gain in life essence will be. Enjoy this pleasure, my murderous friend, for there are few greater in life or death.
It is important to note that how much life essence you get is modified by the experience of your victim.
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| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Essence'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Sense about how much life essence you have.
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: '''Known:''' No (266 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            ESSENCE
: '''Details:'''
This will tell you how much life essence you possess.
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| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Sapience'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Draw upon your essence to increase your mana.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (288 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            SAPIENCE
                 
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 1.5%
: '''Details:'''
You draw on your life essence to boost your mana.
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| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Vigour'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Draw upon your essence to increase your health.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (333 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            VIGOUR
                 
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 1.5%
: '''Details:'''
You draw on your life essence to boost your health.
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| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Putrefaction'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Cause your flesh to decay and melt.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (422 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            PUTREFACTION
::: SOLIDIFY
                 
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 1%
: '''Details:'''
By turning your flesh into a semi-liquid, rotting state, you gain some measure of immunity from both blunt and edged weapons.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Drain'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Drain your life essence into another Necromancer.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (466 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            DRAIN <necromancer>
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
With this ability you can transfer life essence from yourself to another necromancer. Unfortunately, it is not a perfect transfer and some life essence will be lost in the process.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Belch'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Spew forth a noxious gas.
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: '''Known:''' No (533 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            BELCH
: '''Works on/against:'''  Room
: '''Details:'''
This ability will allow you to belch forth a cloud of foul, poisoning gas that will hurt anyone breathing it in, except you.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Deathaura'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Surround yourself in a miasma of evil.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (599 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            DEATHAURA
                 
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 1%
: '''Works on/against:'''  Room
: '''Details:'''
This ability will create, for a limited period of time, and at a cost of life essence, an aura of death and evil that will harm all enemies who are in your location.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Disfigure'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Curse someone with the visage of a rotting corpse.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (702 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            DISFIGURE <adventurer>
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
Using this ability, you will cause your opponent's visage to become so horrific that even his closest allies will turn on him. The chaos and fickleness of emotion and sentiment is a wonderful thing, is it not?
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Soulstorm'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Driving animal spirits away.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (805 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            SOULSTORM <adventurer>
                 
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 1%
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
This ability will attempt to force a metamorphosized adventurer back into his mortal form.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Gravehands'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Summon the hands of the grave to hinder your opponents.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (909 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            SUMMON HANDS OF THE GRAVE
::: BANISH HANDS OF THE GRAVE
                 
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 1.5%
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
This ability will cause rotting hands to rise up from the ground to grab at the ankles of any who try to leave the location. The only ones who will not be affected are those who serve Evil in the city of Mhaldor.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Leprosy'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Spread disease to all around you.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (995 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            LEPROSY
                 
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 3.5%
: '''Works on/against:'''  Room
: '''Details:'''
By filling your body with the unclean, you can infect many others in the room with you, be they friend or foe, causing random limbs to shrivel up. Useful against a group.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''[[Extermination|Exterminate]]'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Destroy all plant life in a location.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (1116 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            EXTERMINATE
                 
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 1%
: '''Works on/against:'''  Room
: '''Details:'''
Using your command of the energies of death, you are able to wipe a forest area clean of plant life, replenishing some of your essence. Be warned though, there is an essence cost to this ability, and unless there is a sufficient amount of plant life in the room, you may lose essence using it. It should also be noted that an exterminated room is no longer considered a forest room, so many Druidic abilities will not work in such a room.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Vengeance'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Revenge with your dying breath.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (1185 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            VENGEANCE [ON|OFF]
::: RELAX VENGEANCE
                 
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 4%
: '''Works on/against:'''  Room
: '''Details:'''
At the cost of a fair amount of life essence, you will exact revenge on your killers when you die in most circumstances.
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| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Soulspear'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Meld soul-matter from the dead into a physical weapon.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (1288 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            EVOKE SOULSPEAR FROM <adventurer corpse>
::: THROW SOULSPEAR AT <adventurer> <direction>
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
Essence cost to evoke it: 2.5%
Soulspear allows the skilled Necromancer to form a weapon forged in the soul of the dead. By taking an adventurer corpse, you can form the soulspear. A corpse from an adventurer level 30 and under has too weak a soul to form such a powerful weapon out of. Beyond that, the higher the level of the victim, the more powerful the soulspear.
Once you have it, you may throw it at someone who is outside your room, anywhere in your line-of-sight. It will shatter shields and prismatic barriers, or, if the person lacks one of those, the necromantic energy will be released, summoning forth hands of the grave in your victim's location.
|-
| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Transverse'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Cross vast distances in a single step.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (1357 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            TRANSVERSE <target>
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 2%
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
This ability allows for swift travel across the land. You must initiate the activation from a room where hands of the grave have been summoned forth.
If your target also stands in a room where the hands grasp at the living, this travel is instantaneous. If the hands are not present, the target is required to be a practitioner of necromancy, and the travel will be delayed.
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| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Blackwind'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Assume the form of the deadly blackwind.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (1426 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            BLACKWIND
::: HUMAN
::: CHOKE
::: CHOKE <target>
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 5%
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
This allows you to take the form of the deadly blackwind. While in this form, your freedom is severely limited, but your ability to be harmed is also severely restricted. After you have become the blackwind, you have the nefarious ability to slip down a victim's throat and CHOKE him. While in blackwind form, you will lose willpower very quickly as you strain to hold your nebulous form together. HUMAN is the command to return to your normal form.
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| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Desecration'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Banish the holy rites of the Bloodsworn Gods.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (1530 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            DESECRATE <rite>
: '''Works on/against:'''  Room
: '''Details:'''
Using your Necromantic essence, you may sever any devotional rites from the location in which you stand. If the layer of the rite is present, this ability takes some time, during which you may make no actions.
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| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Vivisect'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Rip your victim's chest open and torture him to death.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (1564 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            VIVISECT <adventurer>
: '''Works on/against:'''  Adventurers
: '''Details:'''
Evil as you are, you find yourself enjoying live experimentation, preferably on people you know. Once your victim is splayed out and helpless, meaning all four of his or her limbs are withered, you may perform your experiments, killing your victim in horrifying agony.
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| bgcolor=#8C785A | '''Soulcage'''
| bgcolor=#8C785A | Harness your life essence to escape death itself.
|-
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: '''Known:''' No (1736 lessons required)
: '''Syntax:'''            SOULCAGE ACTIVATE
::: SOULCAGE DEACTIVATE
::: SOULCAGE STATUS
                 
: '''Extra Information:''' Essence: 30% - New soulcage
::: 3% - Reactivate soulcage
::: 2% - Deactivate soulcage
: '''Details:'''
This is perhaps the greatest of the necromantic abilities, and carries with it the greatest life essence cost. It allows you to spin a web of life essence around your very soul, protecting it from death. Soulcage may only be used once every 6 Achaean days.
The soulcage can be deactivated by raising a barrier of life essence between it and your soul, preventing it from saving you from death. It may be reactivated later for a much lower essence cost.
SOULCAGE STATUS will show the current state of your soulcage, if any.
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=====See also=====
*[[Apostasy]]
*[[Evileye]]
*[[Chivalry]]
*[[Forging]]


[[Category:Skills]]
[[Category:Skills]]

Latest revision as of 01:33, 26 November 2021

Necromancy is the dark art of death magic. At the lower levels, there is an assortment of rather nefarious abilities. Soon though, the ability of Cannibalism is gained, a skill which has inspired wide-spread fear of those practicing Necromancy. Through cannibalism, a Necromancer increases his life essence, which powers the higher abilities. At the very highest level, a Necromancer gains the power to protect his very soul from death.

The ability to regain the life essence necessary to use Necromancy may be sealed from individuals by the Dread Ecclesiarch of Transvital Corruption, should they prove themselves to be directly against the ideals of the Lords of Evil. One who has undergone this process is said to be in anathema.

The skill of Necromancy is available to members of the Apostate class, along with Evileye and Apostasy. Once practised by the Occultist and Infernal classes as well.


Abilities in Necromancy

Deathsight Attune yourself to the Underworld. Lessons: 0
Syntax: DEATHSIGHT
RELAX DEATHSIGHT
Required: 50 mana
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Cooldown: 2.00 seconds of equilibrium
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Details: Using this ability, you will attune yourself to the realm of Death. While doing so, you will be alerted whenever anyone dies.
Note: {{{note}}}
Chill Send the cold of the grave to plague an opponent. Lessons: 7
Syntax: CHILL <target>
CHILL <direction>
Required: 100 mana
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Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 2.20 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
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Details: Use this ability to freeze an adventurer in two or three stages. If the target has a caloric salve applied, this will nullify the caloric salve. If he doesn't, then it will set him shivering, which will regularly cause him to lose equilibrium. If you chill a shivering adventurer, you will freeze him completely.

Additionally, you may target this in a given direction, destroying any firewall that may be blocking that exit.

Note: {{{note}}}
Sense Seek out the life force of another being. Lessons: 16
Syntax: SENSE <target>
Required: 20 mana
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Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 1.00 second of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: You will seek out the very life essence of an adventurer, gaining you the knowledge of his location.
Note: {{{note}}}
Decay Causing your opponent's flesh to decay. Lessons: 23
Syntax: DECAY <target>
Required: 80 mana
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Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against: Adventurers and denizens
Cooldown: 4.00 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: You have gained the standard attack of the Necromancer. Your touch is enough to cause the flesh of your victim to wither. It does magical damage.
Note: {{{note}}}
Night Create darkness in the room. Lessons: 34
Syntax: NIGHT
Required: 50 mana
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Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against: Room
Cooldown: 4.00 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: Cast a shroud of darkness over a location.
Note: {{{note}}}
Shroud Perform many actions in secret. Lessons: 56
Syntax: SHROUD
UNSHROUD
Required: 70 mana
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Works against:
Cooldown: 2.00 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: This will draw a shroud of concealment over your actions.
Note: {{{note}}}
Screech The shriek of the banshee. Lessons: 89
Syntax: SCREECH
Required: 70 mana
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Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against: Room
Cooldown: 4.00 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: You have gained the power of the banshee. Your very scream will drive those who can hear you out of the location.
Note: {{{note}}}
Taint Attack those with pure souls. Lessons: 112
Syntax: TAINT <target>
Required: 50 mana
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Transitions: {{{transitions}}}
Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 4.00 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: This ability will use your evil necromantic power to attack other adventurers.
Note: {{{note}}}
Feed Derive sustenance from another being. Lessons: 134
Syntax: FEED <target>
Required: 150 mana
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Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against:
Cooldown: 5.00 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: Essence: 1.5%
You are now able to literally drain the nourishment from another adventurer in a display of cruelty.
Note: {{{note}}}
Leech Leech away the mental energy of your target. Lessons: 156
Syntax: LEECH <target>
Required: 50 mana
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Transitions: {{{transitions}}}
Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 4.00 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: This is the skill of draining another's mental energy to add to your own.
Note: {{{note}}}
Lifevision Allows you to see many hidden beings. Lessons: 178
Syntax: LIFEVISION
Required: 600 mana
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Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 3.50 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: You are attuned to the life essences of all living beings, and with this power, you will see through many illusions and hiding defences.
Note: {{{note}}}
Shrivel Cause your opponent's limbs to shrivel up. Lessons: 223
Syntax: SHRIVEL <arms/legs> <target>
SHRIVEL <left/right> <arm/leg> <target>
Required: 300 mana
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Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 2.10 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: By grabbing onto the limb of an adventurer, you can destroy its marrow, rendering it useless.
Note: {{{note}}}
Cannibalism Rip out and consume the heart of your victims. Lessons: 267
Syntax: DRAW HEART
CONSUME HEART
Required:
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Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against:
Cooldown: 4.00 seconds of balance
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: This is truly the joy of the Necromancer. If there is a corpse on the ground that has not already been victimised by a fellow Necromancer, you may DRAW HEART. Then, in an orgy of gastronomic pleasure, you may CONSUME HEART. The greater the experience of the adventurer who provided the heart, the greater your gain in life essence will be. Enjoy this pleasure, my murderous friend, for there are few greater in life or death.

It is important to note that how much life essence you get is modified by the experience of your victim.

Note: {{{note}}}
Essence Sense about how much life essence you have. Lessons: 267
Syntax: ESSENCE
Required:
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Cooldown:
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: This will tell you how much life essence you possess.
Note: {{{note}}}
Sapience Draw upon your essence to increase your mana. Lessons: 289
Syntax: SAPIENCE
Required: 1.50% life essence
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Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against:
Cooldown: 3.50 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: You draw on your life essence to boost your mana.
Note: {{{note}}}
Vigour Draw upon your essence to increase your health. Lessons: 334
Syntax: VIGOUR
Required: 1.50% life essence
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Transitions: {{{transitions}}}
Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against:
Cooldown: 3.50 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: You draw on your life essence to boost your health.
Note: {{{note}}}
Putrefaction Cause your flesh to decay and melt. Lessons: 423
Syntax: PUTREFACTION
SOLIDIFY
Required: 1% life essence and health drain
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Works against:
Cooldown: 3.50 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: By turning your flesh into a semi-liquid, rotting state, you gain some measure of immunity from both blunt and edged weapons.
Note: {{{note}}}
Drain Drain your life essence into another Necromancer. Lessons: 467
Syntax: DRAIN <target>
Required: Life essence drain
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Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown:
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: With this ability you can transfer life essence from yourself to another necromancer. Unfortunately, it is not a perfect transfer and some life essence will be lost in the process. You can avoid this imperfect aspect if carrying out the transfer upon Mhaldor Isle (or within Mhaldor city proper), as these are locations so closely tied to the necromantic arts that the working becomes far easier.
Note: {{{note}}}
Belch Spew forth a noxious gas. Lessons: 534
Syntax: BELCH
Required: 200 mana
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Works against: Room
Cooldown: 4.00 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: This ability will allow you to belch forth a cloud of foul, poisoning gas that will hurt anyone breathing it in, except you.
Note: {{{note}}}
Deathaura Surround yourself in a miasma of evil. Lessons: 534
Syntax: DEATHAURA
Required: 1% life essence and 300 mana
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Works against: Room
Cooldown: 3.50 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: This ability will create, for a sixth of an Achaean day, and at a cost of life essence, an aura of death and evil that will harm all enemies who are in your location.
Note: {{{note}}}
Disfigure Curse someone with the visage of a rotting corpse. Lessons: 600
Syntax: DISFIGURE <target>
Required:
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Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: Using this ability, you will cause your opponent's visage to become so horrific that even his closest allies will turn on him. The chaos and fickleness of emotion and sentiment is a wonderful thing, is it not?
Note: {{{note}}}
Soulstorm Driving animal spirits away. Lessons: 703
Syntax: SOULSTORM <target>
Required: 1% life essence
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Transitions: {{{transitions}}}
Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 4.00 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: This ability will attempt to force a metamorphosized adventurer back into his mortal form.
Note: {{{note}}}
Gravehands Summon the hands of the grave to hinder your opponents. Lessons: 910
Syntax: SUMMON HANDS OF THE GRAVE
BANISH HANDS OF THE GRAVE
Required: 1.50% life essence and 350 mana
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Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: This ability will cause rotting hands to rise up from the ground to grab at the ankles of any who try to leave the location. The only ones who will not be affected are those who serve Evil in the city of Mhaldor.
Note: {{{note}}}
Leprosy Spread disease to all around you. Lessons: 910
Syntax: LEPROSY
Required: 3.50% life essence and 500 mana
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Transitions: {{{transitions}}}
Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against: Room
Cooldown: 4.50 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: By filling your body with the unclean, you can infect many others in the room with you, be they friend or foe, causing random limbs to shrivel up. Useful against a group.
Note: {{{note}}}
Exterminate Destroy all plant life in a location. Lessons: 1048
Syntax: EXTERMINATE
Required: 5% life essence and 1000 mana
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Attacks: {{{attacks}}}
Works against: Room
Cooldown: 6.00 seconds of equilibrium and 12.00 upon completion
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: Using your command of the energies of death, you are able to wipe a forest area clean of plant life, replenishing some of your essence. Be warned though, there is an essence cost to this ability, and unless there is a sufficient amount of plant life in the room, you may lose essence using it. It should also be noted that an exterminated room is no longer considered a forest room, so many Druidic abilities will not work in such a room.

Take note: prolonged use of extermination will take a toll on your essence reserves, and you will find that each subsequent attempt incurs a greater cost in essence than the last to perform.

Note: {{{note}}}
Vengeance Revenge with your dying breath. Lessons: 1186
Syntax: VENGEANCE [ON/OFF]
RELAX VENGEANCE
Required: 4% life essence
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Works against: Room
Cooldown: 4.00 seconds of equilibrium
Attune Effect: {{{attune}}}
Symbol: {{{symbol}}}
Details: At the cost of a fair amount of life essence, you will exact revenge on everyone in the room when you are killed, in most circumstances.
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Soulspear Meld soul-matter from the dead into a physical weapon. Lessons: 1289
Syntax: EVOKE SOULSPEAR FROM <target corpse>
THROW SOULSPEAR AT <target> <direction>
Required: 2.50% life essence
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Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 6.00 seconds of balance
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Details: Soulspear allows the skilled Necromancer to form a weapon forged in the soul of the dead. By taking an adventurer corpse, you can form the soulspear. A corpse from an adventurer level 30 and under has too weak a soul to form such a powerful weapon out of. Beyond that, the higher the level of the victim, the more powerful the soulspear.

Once you have it, you may throw it at someone who is outside your room, anywhere in your line-of-sight. It will shatter shields and prismatic barriers, or, if the person lacks one of those, the necromantic energy will be released, summoning forth hands of the grave in your victim's location.

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Transverse Cross vast distances in a single step. Lessons: 1358
Syntax: TRANSVERSE <target>
Required: 2% life essence and 500 mana
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Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 3.00 seconds of equilibrium
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Details: This ability allows for swift travel across the land. You must initiate the activation from a room where hands of the grave have been summoned forth.

If your target also stands in a room where the hands grasp at the living, this travel is instantaneous. If the hands are not present, the target is required to be a practitioner of necromancy, and the travel will be delayed.

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Blackwind Assume the form of the deadly blackwind. Lessons: 1427
Syntax: BLACKWIND
HUMAN
CHOKE <target>
SURGE <direction>
Required: 5% life essence, 500 mana and willpower drain
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Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 4.00 seconds of equilibrium
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Details: This allows you to take the form of the deadly blackwind. While in this form, your freedom is severely limited, but your ability to be harmed is also severely restricted. After you have become the blackwind, you have the nefarious ability to slip down a victim's throat and CHOKE him. While in blackwind form, you will lose willpower very quickly as you strain to hold your nebulous form together. HUMAN is the command to return to your normal form.

In addition, you may SURGE in a direction to bypass closed doors, though this is a channeled action and will not bypass doors that are locked.

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Desecration Banish the holy rites of the Bloodsworn Gods. Lessons: 1531
Syntax: DESECRATE <rite>
Required: 3.50% life essence and 500 mana
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Works against: Room
Cooldown: 4.00 seconds of balance
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Details: Using your Necromantic essence, you may sever any devotional rites from the location in which you stand. If the layer of the rite is present, this ability takes some time, during which you may make no actions.
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Vivisect Rip your victim's chest open and torture him to death. Lessons: 1565
Syntax: VIVISECT <target>
Required: 300 mana
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Works against: Adventurers
Cooldown: 4.00 seconds of equilibrium
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Details: Evil as you are, you find yourself enjoying live experimentation, preferably on people you know. Once your victim is splayed out and helpless, meaning all four of his or her limbs are withered, you may perform your experiments, killing your victim in horrifying agony.
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Soulcage Harness your life essence to escape death itself. Lessons: 1736
Syntax: SOULCAGE ACTIVATE
SOULCAGE DEACTIVATE
SOULCAGE STATUS
Required: New soulcage (30% life essence), Reactivate (3%), Deactivate (2%)
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Details: This is perhaps the greatest of the necromantic abilities, and carries with it the greatest life essence cost. It allows you to spin a web of life essence around your very soul, protecting it from death. Soulcage may only be used once every 6 Achaean days.

The soulcage can be deactivated by raising a barrier of life essence between it and your soul, preventing it from saving you from death. It may be reactivated later for a much lower essence cost.

SOULCAGE STATUS will show the current state of your soulcage, if any.

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