One of the more esoteric and overtly magical types of creatures is the undead. Baffling biologists and the scientific community until their magical origins could be ascertained, undead creatures are defined as being "dead bodies or collections of dead body parts, that have been reanimated through magical means." The specific type of magic that leads to the creation of undead creatures is known as ''necromancy''.
The necromancer is the most powerful of all undead creatures, and the creature after which the magical domain of ''necromancy'' is named after. They can be formed in one of two ways. The first way is when a [[lich]] serving a necromancer grows old and powerful, it becomes more and more difficult for its master necromancer to keep trying to control it, so in thanks for its service, it is given more power and set free, allowed to venture the world and raise the dead by itself. The second way is when a necromancer is destroyed; if it has any remaining lich servitors, the oldest of them is "promoted" to necromancer.
In essence, a necromancer is simply an old and powerful lich, however they are different in two, very important ways. One is sapience; necromancers gain the ability to speak understandable [[languages]], in hissed tones of unrecognizable gender, and they can talk and even reason with other sapients. The other is their signature ability to ''summon undead''. They can raise the dead on command, causing [[zombie|dead]] [[ghoul|bodies]] and [[skeleton|skeletons]] to rise and follow the necromancer's every order, as long as there are no other active undead creatures in the vicinity.