Few necromancers ever want to let a good corpse go to waste, especially not the powerful form of a paladin that was probably trying to kill them before their expiration. Through a grisly necromantic ritual requiring internal surgery and copious amounts of blood, some advanced necromancers, most often vampires or death knights , can raise a blood-eagle knight out of warriors with magical capabilities to act as shock troops or bodyguards for their further dark schemes.