Here's a thought inspired by playing Planescape: Torment: add a Ghoul Queen.
Basically, I've already got Ghostwalking and Channelling. Necromancy would be the ability to forcibly Channel a ghost by eating a part of its corpse. Fresh blood would be easiest, but bones will do in a pinch. Of course, non-Hyenas would have to grind the bones to avoid digestion problems, but the Queen herself is a Hyena, of course.
I'm not quite sure how the power would work. Obviously it could be used to interrogate corpses... probably a limited number of times by assuming that you had to eat a decent chunk of their flesh to do it. "Pushing" the power and compelling them to do something (lending you a skill, basically) would also require eating a larger chunk.
Wearing a chunk might work, too.
Basically, she runs a clan of Hyena Raveners... she keeps the bones of fallen victims in bags made of skin. Could she get additional benefit out of them besides just info? I could see some sort of vampiric thingie, where she can heal herself, but that's starting to get more "out there". Maybe she can force them to use their psychic powers for her? So she has the skull of an Augurer, wears the breastbone of someone with Invulnerability as armor, etc.. It could get pretty grody.
Posted by Kiz at June 15, 2004 06:59 PMCommentsPost a comment