Threads of dark power leap from your fingers to pierce up to five
Small or Medium corpses you can see within range. Each corpse
immediately stands up and becomes undead. You decide whether it
is a zombie or a skeleton (the statistics for zombies and skeletons
are in the Monster Manual), and it gains a bonus to its attack and
damage rolls equal to your spellcasting ability modifier. You can
use a bonus action to mentally command the creatures you make
with this spell, issuing the same command to all of them. To
receive the command, a creature must be within 60 feet of you.
You decide what action the creatures will take and where they will
move during their next turn, or you can issue a general command,
such as to guard a chamber or passageway against your foes. lfyou
issue no commands, the creatures do nothing except defend
themselves against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the
creatures continue to follow it until their task is complete.
The creatures are under your control until the spell ends, after
which they become inanimate once more.
At higher level
When you cast this spell using a spell slot‘ of 6th level or higher,
you animate up to two additional corpses for each slot level above
5th. |