Spirit Speak

Spirit Speak channels spiritual energy and underpins necromancy. The prose is community-derived (paraphrased from the uorenaissance.com skill list plus ServUO behavior) pending field verification; the stats table and skill-check note below are source-verified against ServUO.

What it does

Spirit Speak lets you understand the speech of ghosts (dead players, who otherwise sound like “oOOoo”) and channel energy from nearby corpses to heal yourself. On this shard it also boosts many Necromancy effects, so it is the standard companion skill for a necromancer. See death & resurrection.

How to use it

Activate the skill. If a corpse is nearby it is consumed/channeled to heal you; the skill can be used while casting other spells (it does not lock you out of magic). Ghosts become intelligible to you while your Spirit Speak is high enough. See spellcasting.

How to train it

• Low/high skill — activate the skill repeatedly, ideally near corpses (channeling a corpse both heals and trains). Fighting and killing creatures produces a steady supply of corpses to channel.

See skill gain.

Mechanics & numbers

Primary stat	Intelligence
Secondary stat	Strength
Title	Medium
Mastery skill	No
Gain notes	skill-ups can raise Int +1 (per-use stat gain weights)

From Scripts/Skills/SpiritSpeak.cs: the base check is CheckSkill(SpiritSpeak, 0, 100), and when channeling a nearby corpse the roll extends to 0.0–120.0 (so it stays useful past GM). The amount healed scales with the skill; the corpse is marked channeled/consumed. Spirit Speak is flagged usable while casting.

Related skills & synergies

• Necromancy — Spirit Speak boosts many necro effects; the inseparable pairing. See the Necro-Mage build on seven-GM templates.
• Magery + Meditation — the caster core a necro-mage layers it onto.

See also

• Death & resurrection · Spellcasting
• Skill gain · Skills index

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