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.

List of Necromancy spells

Level 1: Animate Skeleton; Fulsome Distillation; Pain

Level 2: Corpse Rot; Lethal Infusion; Sublimation of Blood

Level 3: Regeneration; Vampiric Draining

Level 4: Animate Dead

Level 5: Agony; Cigotuvi's Degeneration; Excruciating Wounds; Twisted Resurrection; Dispel Undead

Level 6: Bolt of Draining; Control Undead; Simulacrum

Level 7: Borgnjor's Revivification; Haunt; Death Channel

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	{{{Op}}}	-3	0	-1	{{{Te}}}	-2	{{{Vp}}}

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 • Forgecraft • Hexes • Ice • Necromancy • Summoning • Translocations

List of Necromancy spells

Sources of Necromancy spells

Necromancy aptitudes

See also