User:ToastTheKnowing/Sandbox/Bestiary/Corse

These are the most common abilities shared by members of this family and its subspecies. Click on individual monster pages for details on unique abilities. Learnable Blue Magic is indicated with icons next to their links.

• Danse Macabre:
  Single-target Charm
• Silence Seal:
  AoE Silence
• Memento Mori:
  Magic Attack Boost
• Envoutement:
  Single-target damage, Chance of Curse
• Gala Macabre:
  AoE Charm, only used by some notorious monsters
• Final Retribution:
  AoE damage and Stun, only used by corses who wield the dragon skull headed staff including Kumakatoks
• Hadal Summons:
  AoE damage and Burn, only used by corses of the Kumakatok subfamily (purple robes and golden hat)

Corse

Corse is an archaic English word for "corpse". It is derived from the Latin word corpus.

Danse Macabre

Danse Macabre is a Medieval European allegory about death affecting every person, be they peasant, feudal lord, clergyman, or king. The dance of death unites all humans across class strata. Danse Macabre was usually depicted in the form of a painting or engraving (occasionally in the form of a play), showing death in the form of a dancing skeleton leading a line of dancers to the grave, a line which included usually the skeletons of a king or emperor, a pope, a monk, a woman, and a child.

Memento Mori

Memento Mori is a Medieval European concept descripting works of art that were intended to remind the viewers of their mortality. It is a Latin phrase translated as "remember your mortality", "remember you will die", or "remember your death".

Envoutement

Envoutement refers to performing sympathetic magic (creating an image of something in the hopes of making it appear or performing some action on a similacrum in hopes of the real thing being faced with that same action). The most common depiction is of a person performing this magic manipulating a doll or an effigy of a person, putting needles in it or burning it, for example. Envoutement is French for invultuation. Invultuation is the more commonly used term for this concept than envoutement.