Spellbinder-Necromancer Hybrid
Spellbinder-necromancer hybrids are rare, but usually uniquely-powered beings that combine the destructive potential of spellbinder magic with the mental manipulation inherent to necromancers. Due to spellbinders and necromancers already being similar, they often present as one of their parents' species without issue.
Sometimes, the parents' powers combine, and other times, they are simply born powerless. The latter group are more capable than most of putting on muscle mass, as they're not using magic like most spellbinders or necromancers. Known powers that have resulted from spellbinder-necromancer hybridisation:
Illusionism: The result of lumomancer and possessor necromancy, a case of mental manipulation combined with holographic projection that can result in deeply convincing illusions. While illusionists cannot directly possess or innately shoot searing beams, they needn't with enough creativity.
Fire Wight Raising: The result of a pyromancer and zombie-raiser, this leads to an ability to raise unique, fireproof, deadly zombies, albeit fewer than a necromancer would be able to raise of regular zombies.
Death's Touch: The ability to slowly drain the temperature from a victim's body that results from a cryomancer and a possessor breeding, in some cases shown to be involuntary. A despised magical type that has led to a taboo against cryomancers in necromantic culture.
Due to spellbinder and necromantic culture both valuing blood purity, sometimes the integrity of such hybridised powers can persist far down the family tree until eventually, the possessors of the power don't even know they're hybrids.
Additional Information
Facial characteristics
Like their parent species, they have small, slit-like noses and variable eye colours, along with round ears.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
Spellbinder-necromancer hybrids exist wherever spellbinders and necromancers coexist, therefore being distributed across Arkhera, Ilazar, and the two Galdusian continents.
Average Intelligence
Like spellbinders and necromancers, they're sapient, yet prone to anxiety and narcissism due to their enlarged amygdala and arcana nodes.
Civilization and Culture
Naming Traditions
Generally spellbinder-necromancer hybrids adopt the culture of the hybridised species involved.
Major Organizations
House of Fel'thuz (Arkhera)
Kasparov Family (Ilazar)
Kasparov Family (Ilazar)
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
Like most hybrids, known necromancer-spellbinder hybrids have the issue of not neatly fitting into either culture. However, most hybrids present as one of their parent races, usually spellbinders due to the bizarre nature of their abilities.
Genetic Ancestor(s)
Scientific Name
Homo magicis
Origin/Ancestry
Kakajuan Humanoid
Lifespan
100-200 years
Average Height
6'4'' to 7'6''
Average Physique
Like their parent species, these hybrids are tall and thin, though oftentimes their tails are a moderate length between the average spellbinder length and the short necromantic length. Phenotypes with the extremes of the tail lengths are still common.
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
Spellbinder-necromancer hybrids tend to have the hair colours of necromancers, that is, darker colours like brown and black hair, while their skin colour is still pale and their eyes are all manner of colours across the spectrum.
Geographic Distribution
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