Book of Bone and Ebony

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CHAPTER FIVE • NECROMANCY
RISEN AND SCREAMING
Cost: 40 motes
Target: Area of effect
Focusing the dark energy that he channels inward,
the Void Circle necromancer traces out a path around
the fertile earth of Creation. As he walks, the soil
beneath his feet blackens and dries, as if charred and
salted. Once he rejoins his trail and completes the loop,
the spell’s effects seem to end. There are no further
apparent effects.
In truth, the land within the circle has been sown
with a lasting undeath. The necromantic energy poured
into the spell hides just beneath the earth’s surface,
waiting. Triggered by the sudden rush of spirit that
accompanies any death, when a living creature breathes
its final breath and falls within the boundary set by the
necromancer’s march, the ground crumbles beneath it.
The creature sinks into the dirt, and when it rises, scant
minutes later at the earliest, rotting skin hangs in tatters
among bare patches of bone, the once-dead corpse
animate and deadly.
The zombies created by this spell are under the
control of the necromancer who cast it. If he is not there
to command them, they remain stationary unless a
living creature becomes visible to their dulled senses.
Such unfortunates the zombies attempt to slay, propagating
the undeath. The risen zombies cannot leave the
circle within which they were birthed. They will not
try, and instantly become inanimate if they are forced
outside the boundary.
The zombies created by this spell scream loudly
when they see prey, and move at twice the speed of
normal zombies. When there are no victims in sight and
they are under no commands, these zombies bury themselves
in the welcoming earth. A Perception + Awareness
roll at difficulty two is required to notice a buried zombie,
but such a zombie is perfectly aware of all creatures within
10 yards and can claw its way free as a turn’s movement,
assisted by the magic of the spell. The zombies are
otherwise identical to the zombies in Exalted (p. 299)
and are always extras. Although the path walked originally
by the necromancer will never bear life again, the
area enclosed by his path returns to normal after one
week per point of the necromancer’s Essence.
SUMMON HEKATONKHIRE
Cost: 40 motes
Target: One hekatonkhire
The hekatonkhire are vast. They are myriad in shape
and form. They are the memories of the things they once
were, behemoths formed in any shape and of any whim
the Primordials desired. These dead things retain something
of their previous form and function, though they