Codex >> Bestiary >> Necromantic
Necromancy binds the spirits of the dying to their decaying bodies, or otherwise commands their power.
Baby spider husk
Judging from their size, these talon spiders could not have been more than a week old when they were slaughtered and animated by Necromancy.
Bonecrawler
Half-complete, this skeleton might be a discarded experiment or a byproduct of the unnatural energies of this tomb.
Cauma
These broad-shouldered, blackened skeletons are wreathed in ever-burning flames. Their finger bones are charred to claw-like points, and their limbs drip with pitch.
Skavie necromancer
Something unnatural gleams in the eye of this skavie.
Skeletal archer
Unlike the unliving you've seen so far, this unfortunate creature has been stripped of its flesh enitrely. Though clothed in castoffs, its bones gleam a polished yellow-white, as if it has received recent attention.
Skeletal boggart
Most of the flesh has fallen from the animated form of this poor boggart. Its bones have been polished to a gleaming sheen, and you think you see sigils carved into them as well.
Skeletal boggart warrior
To judge by its canine skull and scraps of armor, this was once a boggart warrior of some kind. Now it is walking proof of the Heresy of Necromancy.
Skeletal halberdier
With flesh rendered from bone, it's difficult to tell the original race - Kin or Wilderkin - of this well-armored, polearm-wielding skeleton.
Skeletal swordsman
This armored skeleton holds a large and well-oiled blade like it knows what to do with it.
Skull wraith
A skull stirs from the pile, rising up on a column of glowing vertebrae. It floats slowly towards you, eye sockets flickering.
Talon spider husk
Husks are much like skeletons, but based on creatures with exoskeletons, like arachnids and insects. This one was made from a dead talon spider, and retains the original's agility and razor-sharp limbs.
Unliving boggart
Still burdened with some of its flesh, this reanimated boggart moves ponderously.
Unliving fomor
No doubt the fomor would be horrified to find a member of their proud race reanimated by Necromancy. Though much of its martial skill has been scoured away by the animating ritual, it remains strong and fearsome.
Unliving giant rat pack
Many necromancers train their craft on smaller beasts, before working their way up to more substantial creatures. A swarm of such creations can pose a significant threat.
Unliving goliath
Somehow metal plates have been riveted into the preserved flesh of this enormous reanimated firbolg. With its entire face replaced with armoring, you're not sure how it senses you, but it swings the hammer that stands in for its right hand with deadly accuracy.
Unliving hob
The way this animated hob moves its spetum suggests it retains some memory of its use from life.
Unliving lumyn
The dead body of a lumyn, animated by a spirit bound to the corpse by a necromancer. Typically, a necromancer binds a spirit to its original body, but sometimes he will simply use whatever is handy; it is hard to know whether it is a worse fate to be tethered to one's own rotting body, or that of another. Felling this poor creature will give its spirit rest at last.
Unliving octopus
A putrescent odor emanates from this rotting, wet octopus corpse, reanimated by the Heretical magic of the pirate necromancer. Its tentacles flail in search of prey, and you shudder to think what befouled ink spray it might shoot.
Unliving rat pack
These rats do not chitter or squeak, and they stare at you with lifeless eyes. Not even vermin deserve to have their wracked spirits bound to their corpses by Necromancy such as this.
