What do necromancers need corpses for?

submitted by lifebane on Feb 1st, 2007

What do we necromancers need corpses for? Well they are handy to have around on those really lonely nights.... umm.. to talk to I mean. But I suppose you meant something a bit more.... destructive? Powerful? Very well then, listen close and I'll let you know of the many uses a necro has for all those lovely decaying carcasses people leave around.

corpses go boom! Yes, you too can cause a targeted corpse to explode spraying those nearby with bone splinters, crusty toenails, kidneys (stones and all), and all manner of body parts. This causes damage to a 10m radius from the corpse itself.

corpses stand up and fight! One of the funner things to do to a corpse is reanimate it and have it pummel your enemies. While this trick is not a long lasting one it can be extremely useful and not to mention plain old fun to do.

corpses bring minions! While targeting a corpse you can summon any of your 3 minion types. Maybe they climb out the corpses belly, kind of like an alien chest burster... err.. yeah, that must be it.

corpses taste great! Through spells you can draw energy from a corpse to give to you and your abomination. quite refreshing in a morbid kinda way. You better get used to it since you will be using this often.

corpses are full of goodies! When you use necropsy to harvest parts from a corpse you never know what you will get. You may get parts for selling to the vendor (money!) or sometimes the rare grafts. Consider corpses to be the necromancers version of a piñata.

corpses make great walls! A corpse can be used to create walls of deprivation and such that grant the necromancer certain advantages such as increases to their energy levels or things like that.

Well there you go, many a use for dead things. The only thing I miss truly is the ability to speak through a corpse or animated dead. Now that was a fun trick to do in another world long ago (voice graft anyone?)

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