Necromancy Tips & Tricks

Many colors can provide effects that bring a creature (or others) from the graveyard. But both white and black are pretty good at it.

DarkHelvetica wrote:Tips for necromancy.... I do have a few~

- You really only need a portion of someone's body to "revie" them so to say. A hand is about the smallest you can go, and It's useful to have a couple of animated hands scurrying around at your beck and call~. Any larger is mostly for operational use and for the soul's comfort, if you care for such trivial matters.

-Fresh blood is always better than old blood, and mortal blood is better than magical blood. You can always interchange them if necessary, but fresh, mortal blood absorbs magic most efficiently and quickly. The more clotty, magically soaked, the more blood you'll need. It gets significantly more messy than needs be.

- Always know where your supplies come from. There are alot, and I mean ALOT of shady actors in the necromantic supplies business, in part due to lack of regulation. If you can supply your own materials, you can guarantee they are of the correct quality and grade and avoid the heartbreak of having monkey bones included with your human ones. Then again, lack of regulation is what makes the practice that much more exciting~

- Document, Document, Document. What you do with your supplies after you acquire them doesn't matter, but SOME PEOPLE and organizations can get very picky about certain types and uses of materials. Keep your paperwork in line, or else you might find yourself on the end of some nasty rumors. Spoken form experience, of course~.

And by the way flicker, I love the way you speak~

Necromancy is pretty far from my spice and seasoning so if this is a dumb question that's why. But if one wanted to intentionally use mismatched parts in a revival spell or say, had to because it was what was available on hand, does that have any sort of long term repercussions? I've heard of instances with spiritual resonance occurring in these sorts of cases but I don't know how verified those sources are.

Has one explored the concept of pulling the soul from some prison- hypothetically we shall say a computer-- and placing that within a new vessel? Or is necromancy far too focused a concept to allow for such manipulation?

if a carrot dies you can use the leaves to grow more leaves

When mixing materials, you can test for compatibility by effectively doing a partial ritual. You may need an additional stabilizer so you can back out until you get used to it, but the general idea is to get the parts close and give them just a little power (the more neutral the better, but if you can't for whatever reason, I've found the least harmful aspect for meat is water) and intent. This doesn't guarantee the mix you're testing will play nice with other components though, like whatever you're animating it with, so watch out!

FlickerWicker wrote:Also, I remembered another tip while taking a walk today.

If you do any sort of substitution rituals (sacrificial rituals with alternate ingredients to mortal creatures, like objects of significance, magical beings, or the already-undead), CLEAN YOUR EQUIPMENT after use. If you do a traditional ritual with any of the same material later, you don't want little bits of stuffed animal fluff and dry zombie skin getting in your pure human blood and totally ruining its value. 60 bucks, down the drain, because I didn't clean and disinfect my alter well enough.

I heard of a necromancer who ended up with a Kin Eater's Brand once because he didn't wash his hands thoroughly enough between his laboratory and his lunch break.