Necromancy [Arcane]
Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Close
Target: One or more corpses totalling 2 HD/Power point
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
Minimum Power Points: 7
XP Cost: 1/HD of undead creature
This spell turns the bones 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 area and attack any creature
(or just a specific kind of creature) entering the place. They remain animated
until they are destroyed. (A destroyed skeleton or zombie can't be animated
a second time.)
Regardless of the type of undead you create with this spell, you can't create
more than 2 HD of undead per Power point expended with a single casting of animate
the dead. (The place of power spell
doubles this limit.)
The undead you create remain under your control indefinitely. No matter how
many times you use this spell, however, you can control no more than 4 times
your Magic Power in HD of undead creatures. If you exceed this number, all the
newly created creatures fall under your control, and any excess undead from
previous castings become uncontrolled. (You choose which creatures are released.)
Undead you are controlling using a control
the dead spell do not count against this limit.
Skeletons: A skeleton can be created only from a mostly intact corpse
or skeleton. The corpse must have bones. If a skeleton is made from a corpse,
the flesh falls off the bones.
Zombies: A zombie can be created only from a mostly intact corpse.
The corpse must be that of a creature with a true anatomy.
Restriction: as an arcane spell, only arcane spellcasters can
learn and cast this spell. This spell must be cast at night.