Necromancy Spell List

First Circle Necromancy Spells

    Detect Poison: Detects presence of poison within line of sight.   The more successes rolled, the more suble poisons can be detected. One success will spot fast acting deadly poisons and four successes will identify strong alcoholic beverages.   Perception Persistent     Detect Void Creatures: Detects undead or Void Demons presence within 50 feet per success. At +2 difficulty it can detect less literal Void creatures such as lycanthropes.   If cast on a subject other than the caster, add +1 to casting difficulty.   Perception Persistent     Dead Man’s Tongue: Spell allows caster to overcome all language barriers with any and all undead, restless dead or manifesting honored dead for one hour per success. Not all undead are capable of intelligent speech, but this spell will let the caster know when an undead creature cannot speak versus is simply choosing not to speak. If an undead creature has the mental capacity to speak, but cannot physically speak (such as their bottom jaw has rotted away), the spell allows telepathic communication of basic concepts.   If cast on a subject other than the caster, add +1 to casting difficulty. Intelligence Persistent     Exorcise Ghost: The caster can expel a ghost (or in rare cases one of the honored dead) from a person, animal or object they are possessing, resisted by the ghosts Willpiower. Difficulty 7 for the ghost if it's a possessing a person, difficulty 6 if they are possessing a beast or an object.   Exorcising a ghost or honored dead from a spirit loa is possible but difficult. Whether the loa wants the spirit to keep riding them is irrelevent, the ghosts and loas' Willpower scores are added together to resist the spell, still at difficulty 7.   Charisma Instantt     Lifesight: Subject can see in the spectrum of lifesight for one hour per success rolled. Perception Persistent     Gentle Repose: Preserves corpse from normal decomposing for two days per success. Intelligence Persistent      

Second Circle Necromancy Spells

    Burst of Pain: Attack inflicts horrible pain on one subject. Resisted with Willpower. Subjects who fail gain a one-die penalty on all dice rolls plus one die for every net success the caster received. This stacks with other dice penalties. Range is line of sight. Manipulation Persistent     Create Lesser Undead (Dead Man's Tongue): Creates Tier Zero Undead which normally means basic zombies. With a greater additional expenditure of reagents, this spell can create Tier One Undead. See this article for details on creating undead at various tiers. Creating undead normally takes 10 minutes, but when cast as a normal A-Action, this spell can heal an undead creature of Bashing damage, one health level per success rolled. Charisma Instant*     Mastery of Pain (Medicine ●●+, Medicine ●●●●+: A willing subject gets a bulwark against natural and magical pain. Every success rolled on the spell negates penalties from wounds or pain spells on a one for one basis.   Alternatively, this spell can completely negate in a limited area (like modern local anesthesia). Casting the spell in this manner takes a full two minutes. Intelligence Persistent     Dead Name (Gentle Repose, Dead Man's Tongue): Learn the name of a deceased person. +1 difficulty if the eyes are not intact. +2 difficulty if the corpse has been decomposing 10+ years. Extra successes reveal extra name details based on what was important culture of the deceased. A dwarf corpse is likely to be son of Father's name, grandson of Grandfather's name while a kalazotz corpse would be a son of Mother's name daughter of grandmother's name. A person can also be further defined by their profession, place of origin, political affiliation, or nickname. Intelligence Instant     Necromantic Triage (Lifesight, Medicine ●●●+) : Necromantic Triage mimics the power of a Healing ● theurgy will stabilize a wounded person. It will prevent infection and staunch bleeding. Contrary to rumor, this will not exacerbate scarring, but it does sting a bit. Charisma Instant     Living Alarm (Lifesight): Lesser area spell wards area against the intrusion of living creatures. If a living creatures larger than a housecat enters (or exits) a cacophonous sound goes off. Perception Area Spell     Vermin Purge (Lifesight: Slays small creatures in a ten feet radius per success. One success covers fleas, two successes bigger bugs, three successes mice, and four successes rats. Vermin Purge has no filter and will kill beneficial small creatures along with the vermin. Cockroaches are curiously immune to this spell.   The spell will not cause serious harm to larger creatures but creatures temporary uneasiness. In some cases it can trigger upset stomachs and vomiting. Stamina Instant    

Third Circle Necromancy Spells

    Command Ghost (Dead Man’s Tongue): The caster can give a ghost a small number of simple commands, resisted by the ghosts Willpower. The caster can issue one command per net success. Manipulation Instant     Create Undead (Create Lesser Undead): Creates Tier One Undead. With a greater additional expenditure of reagents, this spell can create Tier Two Undead. See this article for details on creating undead. Creating undead normally takes 10 minutes, but when cast as a normal A-Action, this spell can heal an undead creature of Bashing damage, one health level per success rolled. Charisma Instant*     Dead Man's Sight (Create Lesser Undead, Lifesight): The necromancer can see through the eyes of an undead minion that he casts this spell on. The spell normally lasts about four hours per success rolled if he wants sight alone, or two hours per success rolled if he wants to use the undead minions ears too.     This spell can be made permanent if it's cast within 24 hours after the undead was first created and 10 drams of reagents are expended. Perception Persisent     Lesser Necromantic Healing (Necromantic Triage, Medicine ●●●+, per dot of Transmutation): Lesser Necromantic Healing mimics the power of a Healing ●● theurgy will healing lethal or bashing damage, one level per success. Stamina Instant     Hunter’s Mark (Lifesight): After making a touch attack you are able to unerringly track the target for one week per success.   This spell was originally created to keep enemies or prisoners from fleeing but it can be used to keep track of friends and allies too. Stamina Persistent     Inflict Disease (Chill Touch): Touch attack inflicts targets with a disease. Details TBD Stamina Instant     Void Lungs (Master Pain): Subject of the spell doesn't have to breath at all for 30 minutes per success. This makes the subject temporarily immune to drowning, airborne poisons, and even strangulation.   The subject of this spell cannot taste or smell anything while this spell is in effect.   his spell has a Enchantment version that is cosmetically different but functionally the same. Stamina Instant      

Fourth Circle Necromancy Spells

    Blight (Inflict Disease): Inflict persistent damage equal to successes rolled to a number of plant creatures equal to successes rolled. Alternatively it kills mundane plants within a ten foot radius per success. Strength Instant     Create Improved Undead (Create Lesser Undead, Create Undead): Creates Tier Two Undead. With a greater additional expenditure of reagents, this spell can create Tier Three Undead. See this article for details on creating undead. Creating undead normally takes 10 minutes, but when cast as a normal A-Action, this spell can heal an undead creature of attribute damage, one restored attribute per success rolled. Charisma Instant*     Necrotic Ray (Burst of Pain): Ray attack inflicts successes in persistent damage, soakable by armor normally. Strength Instant     Greater Command Ghost (Dead Man’s Tongue): The caster can give a ghost a small number of simple commands, resisted by the ghosts Willpower. The caster can issue two commands per net success and the ghost’s resistance roll is difficulty 7. Manipulation Instant*     Greater Necromantic Healing (Necromantic Triage, Lesser Necromantic Healing, Medicine ●●●+, per dot of Transmutation): Greater Necromantic Healing mimics the power of a Healing ●●● theurgy will healing lethal or bashing damage, one level per success. Stamina Instant     Void Shield (Mastery of Pain): One target per success is warded against negative energy letting them survive in the Void and letting them counter all Necromancy and negative energy based attacks with their Willpower. Spell lasts about 12 hours per casting. Stamina Spread     Warp Identity (Burst of Pain, Dead Name): This spell is also nicknamed, Touch of the Faceless because it mimics their signature attack.   Touch attack inflicts two dice of Social Attribute Damage per success rolled, soaked by Willpower. Manipulation Spread     Wave of Pain (Burst of Pain, Cause Fear): Attack inflicts horrible pain on one subject per success rolled plus one. Resisted with Willpower, each net success causes a one-die penalty in a similar matter to wound penalties, max three-dice penalty but stacks with existing wound penalties. Multiple castings are cumulative but have a ceiling of 3 dice of pre-wound penalties.Manipulation Spread    

Fifth Circle Necromancy Spells

    Bind Ghost (Dead Man’s Tongue, Command Ghost, Greater Command Ghost): The Necromancer binds a ghost, resisted by the ghosts Willpower. Ghost is bound to obey the letter of all commands for one year per the caster’s net success.   The caster needs to have a reliquary to bind the ghost. Ideally, the caster can find an object that was important to the ghost in life, or the caster can create an artificial reliquary worth materials costing at least 200 drams of reagents per dot of the ghost’s Willpower. Manipulation Instant*     Usurp Undead: The caster forcibly takes control of an undead creature he did not create. Details TBD Charisma Instant     Create Greater Undead (Create Lesser Undead, Create Undead): Creates Tier Three Undead. With a greater additional expenditure of reagents, this spell can create Tier Four Undead. Creating undead normally takes 10 minutes, but when cast as a normal A-Action, this spell can heal an undead creature of any form of damage, including aggravated damage, one restored attribute or health level per success rolled. Charisma Instant*     Necromantic Restoration (Necromantic Triage, Lesser Necromantic Healing, Greater Necromantic Healing, Medicine ●●●+, per spell that inflicts attribute damage): Greater Necromantic Healing mimics the power of a Healing ●●●● theurgy will heal a level of attribute damage per success. Intelligence Instant