Necromancy
Necromancy determines how easily you can call on the unsavory power of death itself. It also influences how much bonus damage you can inflict with a pain brand weapon. Characters under the influence of the Necromutation spell (itself of the Necromancy school) receive a bonus to this skill, as do Mummies who rise sufficiently high in level.
Using Necromancy has more consequences than other magical schools, as certain Necromancy spells have risks or side effects for the caster beyond the usual chance of miscasts. Necromancy is also considered unholy, and the good-aligned gods punish its use severely, as does Fedhas Madash when it is used on corpses.
Contents
List of Necromancy spells
- Level 1
- Animate Skeleton
- Fulsome Distillation
- Pain
- Level 3
- Regeneration
- Vampiric Draining
- Level 4
- Animate Dead
- Level 6
- Bolt of Draining
- Control Undead
- Simulacrum
- Level 8
- Death's Door
- Necromutation
Sources of Necromancy spells
- Main Texts
- Book of Necromancy (Pain, Animate Skeleton, Lethal Infusion, Vampiric Draining, Regeneration, Dispel Undead, Animate Dead)
- Book of Death (Corpse Rot, Sublimation of Blood, Agony, Excruciating Wounds, Bolt of Draining)
- Book of Unlife (Recall, Animate Dead, Twisted Resurrection, Control Undead, Simulacrum, Death Channel)
- Necronomicon (Borgnjor's Revivification, Haunt, Death's Door, Necromutation)
- Other Texts
- Book of Cantrips (Animate Skeleton)
- Book of Changes (Fulsome Distillation)
- Book of Alchemy (Fulsome Distillation, Lethal Infusion, Sublimation of Blood)
- Book of Control (Control Undead)
- Book of Ice (Simulacrum)
- Book of Morphology (Cigotuvi's Degeneration)
- Book of Power (Animate Dead)
- Book of Stalking (Fulsome Distillation)
- Book of War Chants (Regeneration)
Necromancy aptitudes
From Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.8.0 in-game documentation:
| Hu | Ce | Dg | Ds | Dr | DD | DE | HE | SE | Fe | Gh | Ha | Ko | Mf | Mi | Mu | Na | Op | Og | HO | Sp | Te | Tr | Vp |
| 0 | -1 | {{{Dg}}} | {{{Ds}}} | 0 | +1 | +2 | -2 | +1 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -2 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | -1 | +1 | -2 | {{{Vp}}} |
See also
| Skills | |
|---|---|
| Weapons | Short Blades • Long Blades • Ranged Weapons
Axes • Maces & Flails • Polearms • Staves • Unarmed Combat • Throwing |
| Physical | Fighting • Armour • Dodging • Stealth • Shields |
| Magical | Spellcasting • Invocations • Evocations • Shapeshifting |
| Spell Schools | Air • Alchemy • Conjurations • Earth • Fire • Hexes • Ice • Necromancy • Summoning • Translocations |
