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One final difference is that it has no synergy with Kikubaquudgha's Corpse Delivery. | One final difference is that it has no synergy with Kikubaquudgha's Corpse Delivery. | ||
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==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
*[[Derived undead]] | *[[Derived undead]] | ||
Revision as of 23:38, 3 February 2017
 Death Channel
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| Level | 6 |
| School1 | Necromancy |
| Source(s) | Book of Decay Book of Unlife |
| Casting noise | 5 |
| Spell noise | 0 |
| Power Cap | 200 |
| Hated By | Elyvilon The Shining One Zin |
| Flags | Helpful, Selfench, Utility |
| Binds the souls of slain living, demonic and holy creatures, forcing their spectres to remain and fight for the caster for as long as the channel lasts. |
Death Channel is a level 6 Necromancy spell that, while active, raises living creatures (natural holiness) slain by the caster into a state of temporary undead slavery as spectral things. The type of spectral thing depends upon what is killed, but its stats will be similar to that of the creature slain, and it will always have draining-branded attacks. Increasing your spell power will increase the number of turns in which your kills rise as spectral horrors, but has no effect on the duration of the spectral things themselves.
Spectral things are not permanent pets, but while they exist, they will follow the caster up and down stairs. Creatures affected by this spell still generate corpses as normal.
Strategy
Death Channel and Animate Dead function similarly, in that they raise up undead slaves for you. Comparing zombies and spectral things, zombies tend to have more hitpoints but less AC, and are of zombie intelligence whereas spectral things carry their original intelligence with them. Spectral things also have draining branded attacks.
Death Channel is convenient, in the sense that it automatically reanimates monsters for you (where Animate Dead forces you to burn a turn doing so every now and then). It also does not require a corpse; a living creature slain by you will be reanimated whether it was going to drop a corpse or not.
Foes that are turned into spectral things still leave a corpse. You could potentially have double the number of slaves if you have both spells, but they're both great spells so this is mostly unnecessary.
One final difference is that it has no synergy with Kikubaquudgha's Corpse Delivery.
History
- Prior to 0.15, Death Channel had a duration half as long.
