The Necromancer
[Raise the Dead]
At the realms conception, before anything even began, Denadlyr planned the
introduction of the class of wonders. Known as the
mage, its guildhalls
were filled with scholars, the most intelligent of Serin's inhabitants, a
group that shunned the use of physical force to master the potential of the
mind. Their spells were versatile, and once a mage reached his pinnacle,
were powerful enough that even the warrior
feared them. Magic became the
most influential force in battle, and mages were later integrated into each
army in the grand conflicts, proving indispensable with their both harmful
and beneficial spells.
The Great War
which scarred Serin pitted mage against mage, and resulted in
much bloodshed and weakening of the arcane. After the war was burned out,
and the weakened magi retreated to rest, Denadlyr stepped into their council
to punish their foolishness, for his gift was intended to unify, to enrich
and amuse, and for defence, not to harm, maim and kill. An entire group of
their members was cast out from the society completely, for their meddling
with the forbidden sphere. Finding the embrace of Kallomar, this group of
mages then turned their arts fully to the undead, and they were cursed to
live as evil, and the necromancer guildhall was formed. Though Kallomar
was destroyed, other evil immortals allow them the right to channel magic.
Necromancers are the mages of unlife. They have turned their studies to
the manipulation of the dead, and to the capturing of souls that have not
yet left the body to return to the Ether. A necromancer can turn inanimate
chunks of material into golems, and the corpses of the dead into zombies,
to serve a mindless slave. Though their abilities are derived from the
Ether like all magic, they are considered forbidden, black magic, for its
evil intent. At the peak of their powers, necromancers learn the ability
to command the living to die, with a point of a finger.
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