Undying Minions
Although some necromancers enjoy living company, others relish only the presence of the dead, animated in a twisted form unlife by the Forbidden Art. The creation of undead has always been associated with necromancy, but its powers are far more expansive than many of the uninitiated would care to imagine. A necromancer has the power to raise up a variety of undead into service, not simply the stereotypical automaton.
Independent, self-willed undead such as ghosts, wraiths, spectres, vampire, and the like can rarely be created by a necromancer. These creatures usually come about through some divine curse or by the malignant force of their own personality. In this section, we are concerned with the necromancer's methods and requirements for creating undead minion.s. We also address, however briefly, the topic of golem creation, since it can involve the transfer of life force into an inanimate object and thus falls into the murky province of necromancy.