![]() Powers and effects Main article: Necromancy#UsesĪ necromancer raising the dead into her service. Again, with tutelage from the demon Kil'jaeden, these necromancers, named necrolytes, delved into the dark arts and eventually gaining power enough to animate and control the bodies of the newly dead. The Shadow Council began training young warlocks in the arcane mysteries of life and death. An elite branch of necromancers, under the command of the dark master Maleki the Pallid, refer to themselves as the Thuzadin, in honor of their lord and first of their kind, Kel'Thuzad.ĭuring his pursuit of furthering the Shadow Council's magical resources, Gul'dan opened a new school of magical discipline that became known as necromancy. Many modern necromancers were trained by Kel'Thuzad and his agents in the Scholomance beneath Caer Darrow. These necromancers and acolytes aspire to become undead, and remain alive because undeath is considered an honor one must earn, and because living beings are useful for their ability to spy, and recruit powerful individuals from among the living. The Cult of the Damned is the organization of living beings who served the Lich King, and was formed years before the Third War. The Lich King Ner'zhul granted these malevolent sorcerers true power over the dead in exchange for their loyalty and obedience. Īmong the necromancers of the Scourge, the former archmage Kel'Thuzad is the most notable example of a modern necromancer, who greatly contributed to the initial spread of the Scourge and the fall of Lordaeron. ![]() Further empowered with magical energies culled from the slain necrolytes, the death knights wielded an arsenal of necromantic and elemental spells that mete out all but certain death to the enemies of the Horde. ![]() ![]() ĭuring the Second War, the original death knights created by Gul'dan were not battle-hardened warriors unlike modern death knights of the Scourge, they were insidious necromancers who possessed a superior intellect and tremendous magical power. As necromantic magic is considered to be a dark and corruptive energy, its use was made illegal in the Seven Kingdoms. Researching into banned fields of magic such as necromancy is expressly forbidden by laws almost as old as the Kirin Tor itself, and those who persist are censored, stripped of their power and influence, and banned from the kingdom. For the mages, necromantic magic is highly illegal, should be avoided at all costs, and they only discussed to have a basic understanding of its use. In the Magocracy of Dalaran, any practitioner of necromancy is the enemy of the Kirin Tor. In the Maw, the Mawsworn army employed Maw necromancers, as Zovaal the Jailer knew that there is great power in the dark art of necromancy. Among their ranks, the house employs many Maldraxxi necromancers to insert Maldraxxian souls in the bodies they created, or alternatively, to separate body and soul from already existing constructions. Among the five houses that rule Maldraxxus, the purpose of the House of Constructs is the creation of necrotic constructs to populate Maldraxxus's armies. Under the rule of the Primus, creator of the arts of necromancy, Maldraxxus is home to the Maldraxxi necromancers, who are in charge of creating the bodies and preparing the souls of the undead that will defend the Shadowlands from external forces and wage war on the enemies of Death.
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