It was widely practiced across the world until the Renaissance when it was equated with demonology and got its bad reputation. The word necromancy comes from the words nekros (dead) and manteia (prophecy), meaning that necromancers are more likely to summon spirits for divination than armies of rotting zombies. ![]() However, necromancy didn't always have the evil connotations that it has today. Any villain that practices necromancy is virtually guaranteed to fall hard onto the far side of the evil scale, and any hero who dares to dabble in it is likely to be seen as having fallen into evil by others. In typical (older) media they're the epitome of the Evil Sorcerer, showing none of the respect in Due to the Dead, using The Dark Arts to create an army of skeletons, zombies, undead animals and undead monsters (or any kind of Undead being) to ravage the countryside or enslave souls of the damned for their own evil and twisted purposes, with the most ambitious examples being a horrifying combination of Evil Overlord and Omnicidal Maniac. Necromancy, the magic of Interrogating the Dead, has been practiced since at least Ancient Greece, where it was known as Necromantia, and probably earlier. ![]() ![]() A practitioner of a specific kind of Whatevermancy, Necromancers are the masters of the art of death.
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