magical, necromancy
- Casting Time: 3 actions; Material, Somatic, and Verbal
- Requirements: an onyx gem (worth 15 silver per each creature raised as undead)
- Range: touch
- Target: a number of corpses equal to your Proficiency Score
Channeling power through the onyx, with a word, you raise touched corpses under your command as undead creatures. A raised corpses becomes either a skeleton or zombie of your choice. The creatures follow simple commands, such as to follow you, to wait in an area, or to attack others you indicate. If you animate more corpses than your Proficiency Score, such as through additional castings of this spell, you lose control of previously animated corpses. Animate Dead is on the Arcane and Divine Spell Lists.
Heighten (+2): For each Spell Slot of the Heightened Spell Levels (5, 7, 9), you can animate dead as another type of creature.
Level 5 or 6 Spell Slot. You can raise a corpse as a ghoul.
Level 7 or 8 Spell Slot. You can raise a corpse as a ghast or mummy.
Level 9 or 10 Spell Slot. You can raise a corpse as a mohrg.