Necromancer

Necromancers are often seen as depraved and corrupt individuals, obsessed with death and willing to do anything to avoid it. They are used (as they are rarely their own masters) by Vampires to animate the corpses of their servants and bring them back into battle. To acquire the knowledge of black magic, these desperate men seek the help of a Necromancer or Vampire, even if this entails danger, as many aspirants die at the hands (or fangs) of their would-be preceptor. Those who survive invariably become powerful spellcasters, although their sanity is often compromised by the horrors they have endured.