Create Undead

Create Undead

6th-rank - Wizard Spell: Necromancy Priest Spell: Death

Casting Time: 1 minute

Range: 10 feet

Duration: Instantaneous

Components: V, S, M

Materials: one clay pot filled with grave dirt, one clay pot filled with brackish water, and one 150 gp black onyx stone for each corpse

Auditory Sensory Effects: Quiet

Visual Sensory Effects: Tiny

Olfactory Sensory Effects: None

Casting Perception Mod +6

Effect Perception Mod +2

You can cast this spell only in dim light or darkness, and the sun or its light must not be visible.
Place a black onyx stone worth 150 gp on top of up to three corpses of Medium or Small humanoids within range. Quietly-hissing purple and black aura gathers in the onyx gems, which sink into the flesh of the corpses. Each corpse becomes a Ghoul under your control.
As a bonus action on each of your turns, you can mentally command any creature you animated with this spell if the creature is within 120 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one). You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move during its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a particular chamber or corridor. If you issue no commands, the creature only defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete.
The creature is under your control for 24 hours, after which it stops obeying any command you have given it. To maintain control of the creature for another 24 hours, you must cast this spell on the creature before the current 24-hour period ends. This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to three creatures you have animated with this spell, rather than animating new ones, and does not require a new set of onyx gems.
The creatures retain perfect memories and all the faculties they had in life (Intelligence and Wisdom scores). They are possessed of a great hatred for all life, but especially for those they knew in life. Their greatest hatred is reserved for those they truly loved in life.

At higher ranks: When you cast this spell a s a 7th-rank spell, you can animate or reassert control over four Ghouls. When you cast this spell as an 8th-rank spell, you can animate or reassert control over five ghouls, two Ghasts or one Wight. When you cast this spell as a 9th-rank spell, you can animate or reassert control over six ghouls, three ghasts, two wights, or two Mummies.
To create a Wight, you must use an onyx worth at least 200 gp, and the corpse must be of a warrior of at least 5th level.
To create a Mummy, you must use an onyx worth at least 250 gp, and the corpse must be of a Priest of at least 5th level.