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Risen are long-term minions created by Necromancers. Nothing forces a Necromancer to create a Risen, but they are the guild's big thing. Risen will cause the most outrage of anything you can do, so it behooves you to pick one and keep it around as long as possible.

Controlling Risen

Controlling Risen requires a fetish that is tied to that particular risen. Commands do not cause RT. If you lose your fetish, you lose that Risen. Sorry.

Combat Power

Risen are not meant to be direct combatants and are quite squishy relative to their creator. Their role in combat is combat-support, using special abilities to debuff or buff the room in various ways. In a pinch, a Risen should be defending itself in combat, but it's not anything to rely on and not remotely a substitute for a zombie.

Functionally, the CFB zombie is (and always has been) intended to be your go-to combat companion. Something that's literally hacked to pieces and then stitched together just isn't going to be as sturdy as something that was just killed and raised intact.

Creating Risen

To learn how to make Risen, you'll need to visit one of the cold laboratories in a guild. There are cold laboratories in each province, though there is no teacher in P5.

Risen are assembled out of body parts. How effective you are at butchery is governed by a hidden skill (similar to Astrology) that you need to work up. (There is some grandfathering for this.)

Duration

Risen are effectively immortal, though if they are damaged enough, they have to rest and regenerate for a time before they are usable again. There is also no time limit for having a Risen out (except for the possibility of it getting re-murdered and needed to regen before it can be used again).

How They Can Look

Risen can look like NPCs, but not PCs.

Multiple Risen

You can make as many Risen as you want, so you can have different ones designed/trained for different tasks. The main costs to making multiple Risen is the time it takes to gather body parts, and the price of the scrolls you use to teach them.

Risen Abilities

Abilities are taught in the various guildhalls, and each location will (eventually) have a few unique ones.

The idea is there shouldn't be one perfect Risen that has every ability and is perfectly suitable for every situation. Sometimes you want an agent that can blend in, sometimes you want a five-headed spawn from Aldebaran.

There's Humanity-driven abilities that focus on stealth, city interaction, and otherwise being a fairly normal proxy for the Necromancer. Then there are inhumanity (low Humanity) driven abilities that are more magical / combat support.

Commands

Commands are activated, per Risen, by purchasing the correct item and feeding it to your creation. There are a limited number of slots per Risen.

Commands	Purpose
Say	Say a phrase
Move	Move around
Look	Look at the surroundings
Find	Find a person
Watch	Watch an area
Attack	Attack a person or creature
Safeguard	Drag the summoner when they are in trouble
Bleed	Blood Buffer
Chorus	The Chorus Discordant
Butcher	Assist with butchering

STARE FETISH to see what commands the Risen has learned.

Training

What a Risen can learn how to do will depend heavily on how much humanity it has, how skilled it was when put together, and the quality of the specimens used to make it. You will buy scrolls to teach your Risen different things.

Risen who are trained in stealth can use stealth. Risen can participate in combat, but will pretty much never be as combat worthy as your CFB zombie, and you cannot use both at once (or more than one Risen at once, either).

Sight and Communication

Yes, a PC can see and speak through the Risen if you have trained it to do so. However unlike familiars, Risen can be killed (Re-killed? But they get better!).

Movement

The Risen can be set to follow you, or you can manually move it around via COMMAND when it's not doing a specific task for you. It will not be able to go into certain areas, and will get twitchy both in town or in safe areas

Miscellaneous

Justice

Risen can be arrested in town, so be careful.

COMMAND RISEN TO BAIL bails them out of jail. You need to have enough money in your pockets to do so.

Equipment

Risen who are designed to do in-town tasks can wear clothing, and hooded cloaks will provide bonuses to them. Combat-trained Risen can make use of weapons.

Risk of Equipment Loss

This is similar to CFB zombies; If you're equipping one, don't give a Risen anything you'd be devastated to lose. Specific tasks (like sending your Risen to go repair your stuff) are safe, but equipping them directly has a chance to lead to item loss.