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Necromancy [[[SRD:Evil Upshot\|Evil]]]
Level:	Clr three, Death three, Sor/Wiz iv
Components:	Five, S, M
Casting fourth dimension:	ane standard action
Range:	Touch
Targets:	1 or more corpses touched
Elapsing:	Instantaneous
Saving Throw:	None
Spell Resistance:	No

This spell turns the basic or bodies of dead creatures into undead skeletons or zombies that follow your spoken commands.

The undead can follow you, or they can remain in an expanse and assail any creature (or just a specific kind of brute) entering the place. They remain blithe until they are destroyed. (A destroyed skeleton or zombie can't be animated again.)

Regardless of the blazon of undead you lot create with this spell, you can't create more HD of undead than twice your caster level with a unmarried casting of animate expressionless. (The desecrate spell doubles this limit)

The undead you create remain under your command indefinitely. No matter how many times you lot utilize this spell, however, you can control merely iv Hard disk drive worth of undead creatures per caster level. If y'all exceed this number, all the newly created creatures fall nether your control, and any excess undead from previous castings get uncontrolled. (You choose which creatures are released.) If you lot are a cleric, any undead you might command by virtue of your power to command or rebuke undead do not count toward the limit.

Skeletons: A skeleton tin exist created but from a mostly intact corpse or skeleton. The corpse must take bones. If a skeleton is made from a corpse, the flesh falls off the bones.

Zombies: A zombie can be created just from a mostly intact corpse. The corpse must be that of a creature with a true beefcake.

Material Component: Y'all must place a black onyx gem worth at least 25 gp per Hit Dice of the undead into the mouth or heart socket of each corpse you intend to animate. The magic of the spell turns these gems into worthless, burned-out shells.

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