Death Magic

Death Magic: Transferring life to caster from enemies, summoning Undead. In lore and dialogue this may be referred to as Necromancy.

"It is rumored that Davropos, the legendary necromancer, can be found near the city of the dead, Necropolis."

Death Skill Tree

Active

Corpse Explosion	Causes a corpse within a targeted area to spontaneously explode causing tremendous damage to those nearby. Each corpse can be exploded up to 3 times. Death Specialization adds a chance for the explosion to mesmerize the targets.
Death Field	Area of effect life drain that becomes more powerful the closer the caster is to death. Death Specialization reduces the cooldown of Death Field.
Death Ray	Medium range life drain spell that becomes more powerful the closer the caster is to death. Death Specialization adds a chance to apply a -5 Death Resistance debuff to the target. This can stack up to 3 times.
Death Shield	Converts a portion of damage received from physical attacks to health. Death Specialization increases the duration of the shield. This spell is considered a shield spell, and only one shield spell can be active at any given time.
Death Touch	Short range life drain spell that becomes more powerful the closer the caster is to death. Death Specialization adds a chance to apply a -5 Death Resistance debuff to the target. This can stack up to 3 times.
Summon Lich	Summons a Lich
Summon Skeleton	Summons a Skeleton
Tap Soul	Drain away life to draw in focus. Use of this skill also applies a small penalty to the caster's Life Attunement making it harder for them to be healed by life magic. Death Specialization reduces the number of times the negative penalty can stack.

Innate

Death Attunement	Increases the power of Death skills and resistance to negative Death effects. Attunement is increased by training active Death skills.
Death Magic Specialization	Death Magic Specialization is the devotion of one's self to the school of Death Magic. It increases the power of all Death magic while weakening your power and resistance to the opposing school of Life. In addition to the attunement gain, the Death Specialization skill will impact each spell slightly in some matter. NOTE: Only one Specialization skill may be trained and one additional skill maintained at any given time or two may be set to maintain. Enabling training for a different specialization skill may set a specialization skill currently set to maintain to unlearn.
Death Mastery	Life drains give more hit points
Life Warding	Weakens attunement with the Life tree while increasing the resistance to the Life tree.
Mummified Undead	Summoned Undead decay slower
Undead Mastery	Summoned Undead are stronger

External Reference

• Magic, Combat, and Crafting Skills on the Shroud of the Avatar Forums