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[[File:Compendium about magic; c. 1775 Wellcome L0025197.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Compendium about magic; c. 1775 Wellcome L0025197]]'''Magic''' currently exists in limited form in ''Dwarf Fortress''. With [[Modding guide|modding]], it is also one of the many ways that [[Interaction token|interaction]]s can be manifested. | [[File:Compendium about magic; c. 1775 Wellcome L0025197.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Compendium about magic; c. 1775 Wellcome L0025197]]'''Magic''' currently exists in limited form in ''Dwarf Fortress''. With [[Modding guide|modding]], it is also one of the many ways that [[Interaction token|interaction]]s can be manifested. | ||
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| − | [[Necromancer]]s are spellcasters | + | [[Necromancer]]s are spellcasters who have the ability to raise the dead as various forms of [[undead]]. They receive their power from divine intervention, after worshiping a god of death and learning the secrets of life and death from them. This is the only form of magic the player can feasibly obtain; it is obtained in [[adventurer mode]] by reading a [[book|slab]] or a [[book]] that contains the secrets of life and death, traditionally obtained via necromancer [[Tower (necromancy)|tower]]s ({{Tile|I|5:0}}). These towers are often packed tightly with undead and, usually, more than one necromancer, who will not hesitate to raise any fresh corpses you make, or even the limbs of their minions that you chop off. But of course, that great power can be yours, if you can overcome the danger involved. |
Some types of undead possess supernatural powers. [[Mummy|Mummies]] can curse those who intrude upon their [[tomb]]s or otherwise defy them, while [[intelligent undead]] sport a variety of magical powers, such as the likes of inflicting rot on their foes, vanishing from sight, or creating magical fog. [[Ghost]]s rise from the dead when a civilized creature is not given a proper burial, and, depending on their disposition, can do such things as suck the air out of someone, or outright kill them from fright. | Some types of undead possess supernatural powers. [[Mummy|Mummies]] can curse those who intrude upon their [[tomb]]s or otherwise defy them, while [[intelligent undead]] sport a variety of magical powers, such as the likes of inflicting rot on their foes, vanishing from sight, or creating magical fog. [[Ghost]]s rise from the dead when a civilized creature is not given a proper burial, and, depending on their disposition, can do such things as suck the air out of someone, or outright kill them from fright. | ||
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| − | Defiling the [[temple]] of one's patron by toppling one of its [[statue]]s will result in the patron deity cursing the perpetrator, and turning them into a [[werebeast]] or [[vampire]]. [[Dice]] can also be rolled in order to divine the will of the gods, and may lead to a variety of both positive and negative effects such as healing one's wounds, spawning a great item, causing streaks of bad luck, or transforming them into a harmless critter for a week. | + | Defiling the [[temple]] of one's patron by toppling one of its [[statue]]s will result in the patron deity cursing the perpetrator, and turning them into a [[werebeast]] or a [[vampire]]. [[Dice]] can also be rolled in order to divine the will of the gods, and may lead to a variety of both positive and negative effects such as healing one's wounds, spawning a great item, causing streaks of bad luck, or transforming them into a harmless critter for a week. |
===Megabeasts=== | ===Megabeasts=== | ||