How powerful would you believe Biomancy has the potential to be?

[Circus_Trinity]

Necromancy is the ability to deny death in most stories and in many ways. Turning enemies into unfeeling, highly effective armies of terror. You are an one-man army that cares not for the casualties of your troops. A tide of bodies that most can't stop.

Wouldn't this make Biomancy the complete opposite? Instead of having an army in your back pocket that expands with every conquest, you are instead an eternal war engine that perfects their own body, using dead biomass to enhance yourself to the point your unrecognizable?

A Lich is considered the perfected form of a Necromancer, so what is it for a Biomancer? A Chimera? I'd like to hear your thoughts.

 

[AYM]

Or

 

[georgelee5786]

A Biomancer would be a guy with control over life, so theoretically could give life to inanimate objects, full life rather than a perverted life given by necromancers

 

[Rhaps]

The only example of Biomancy I know is from "I get stronger the more I eat", it's as you described, an eternal war engine that slowly becomes unrecognizable as any species.

I actually made a boss based on Biomancy (I didn't know the term yet), since it didn't have any name, I called it a Sluagh (a fae that is basically the concept of The Wild Hunt).

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

Makes me think about the flood from Halo.

 

[LilRora]

There's a lot of leeway here in biomancer's powerset. In contrast to what was suggested above, in Vigor Mortis biomancy is almost exclusively focused on healing, transformation (although slow, not usable in battle), and microbiology, including bacteria and viruses.

It's very energy-intensive, extremely inefficient in short term but allows obscenely powerful transformations in long term, and is also extremely deadly if used appropriately (diseases and toxins, mostly). On the other hand though, it has extremely limited offensive capabilities and due to ridiculous energy costs and required time is completely impractical at larger scale (like, a few people affected maximum).

I'd say the final form of a biomancer is a chimera, but not in the way most people imagine hearing that. That's because a master necromancer doesn't do things at the scale of organs, but cells or even molecules. So in fact, one wouldn't even see it if their skin was an amalgamation of the best parts from five different creatures.

The same thing can be said about basically everything else. When someone has virtually complete control over their body, they'll make one that doesn't just combine the best parts of various creatures, but their best building blocks, creating something better than each on its own and that looks just how they want it to look, not how each part looked like.

 

[Nahrenne]

Necromancy is the ability to deny death in most stories and in many ways. Turning enemies into unfeeling, highly effective armies of terror. You are an one-man army that cares not for the casualties of your troops. A tide of bodies that most can't stop.

Wouldn't this make Biomancy the complete opposite? Instead of having an army in your back pocket that expands with every conquest, you are instead an eternal war engine that perfects their own body, using dead biomass to enhance yourself to the point your unrecognizable?

A Lich is considered the perfected form of a Necromancer, so what is it for a Biomancer? A Chimera? I'd like to hear your thoughts.

I guess one way to look at it could be:
Necromancy uses the soul and distorts its will to their own desires - thus controlling the bodies of others after death through their connections to their souls.
Biomancy could then be potentially seen as using and distorting the will of biomass - taking control of the living without the need for the soul.

I guess an example to show this could be:
A puppeteer controlling non-living marionettes
A puppeteer controlling through parasitizing living marionettes

Thus, a necromancer would use a soul to form a connection to a corpse to do their bidding - as an example
While a biomancer could use something like mushroom spores - and the like - to take control of their targets and do their bidding that way.

Of course, both would be able to change the form of their targets after gaining control over them. The difference would be one would be constantly decaying while the other is full of life.

At least, that is how I see the two.

It's probably an incorrect interpretation of them, though.
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[Corty]

You just described tyranids.

 

[HungrySheep]

It depends on the scope of the power. It can get really busted really quickly if it also grants the user the ability to obtain and use those of the devoured/absorbed entities. In that case, I think the upper limit would be a faux-Najimi from Medaka Box where you simply have so many powers by the time you've reached your "peak" form that nothing can challenge you as you have an answer to any situation possible.

If it's more of a magical power where you can manipulate life itself instead of merely devouring things to enhance your own body, then it's insanely busted. You could just delete entire civilizations by manipulating their lifeforce and saying "Nah, I'd win."

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

Necromancy is the ability to deny death in most stories and in many ways. Turning enemies into unfeeling, highly effective armies of terror. You are an one-man army that cares not for the casualties of your troops. A tide of bodies that most can't stop.

Wouldn't this make Biomancy the complete opposite? Instead of having an army in your back pocket that expands with every conquest, you are instead an eternal war engine that perfects their own body, using dead biomass to enhance yourself to the point your unrecognizable?

A Lich is considered the perfected form of a Necromancer, so what is it for a Biomancer? A Chimera? I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Biomancy would just be George Soros and friends reviving Abraham Lincoln and having a fist fight with them. just not interesting