Necromancer Careers
Assassin
Assassins are hired killers, thorough professionals who are expert fighters. They are expert in the use of a wide variety of weapons, and are trained to a far higher level than most warriors, footpads and other petty killers. They are also skilled in the use of poisons and the construction of traps. These skills are for hire to the highest bidder, and it is not unknown for assassins to be employed by two warring factions to assassinate the leaders of both sides. In Ayreon the assassin is one of the most potent tools in the armories of warring families, governments and religious bodies.
Skills/Spells
Assassinate Cast Critical Strike
Deadly Venom Faerie Fire Hide
Invisibility Locate Person Martial Arts
Mathan Set Traps Spikehole
Stalk Strangle Surveillance
Sword Tripwire Use Poison
Necromancer of Death
Necromancers have greater powers over the realms of life and death. Especially the fascination of death has compelled the people who research this branch of magics. Deathmagic includes all the wonderful and devastating spells known as powerwords. Moreover it grants control over the soul and soul power of any individual encountered, empowering the necromant by annihilating the victim. Sleep and Curses are very similar to the realm of death and soul, so the black magician will learn a bit about such process as well. Most dreaded power of the path of death for sure is the Word of Death, which will irrevocably force the victim to die within a short time.
Skills/Spells
Black Slumbers Blindness Control Undead
Curse Desintegration Ghostform
Nexus Poison Preservation
Raise Dead Soul Drain Word of Death
Word of Discord Word of Pain
Necromancer of Unlife
Unlife is the second path of the necromantic ways. Some say it is the first for the powers of undeath are so promising to the weak and greedy. Within their obsession, the necromancers of unlife create armies, legions of undead. They have created abhorred rituals to take the lifeforce of the dead and transform it into their legions. These rituals can decide a battle for they are hard to come by and even harder to stand against. In their later days, those who study this path can become lich. A form of being where the necromancer gives up his life to join the world of the undead. His powers grow and only the forces of good and life can be strong enough to overcome such a cruel warlock.
Skills/Spells
Absorbtion Ritual Animate Dead Blindness
Clouds of Darkness Combat Formation Control Undead
Death Ritual Form Undead Nexus
Poison Preservation Raise Dead
Undeath Unholy Reunion