Animate Dead

Level

2

School

Conjuration, Necromancy

Keywords

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Range

50 meters (15-meter radius from target point)

Duration

24 hours

This spell creates undead servants. Choose a number of piles of bones or corpses equal to your Magic skill within 15 meters of a point you can see within 50 meters. Each target is raised as a skeleton (if bones) or a zombie (if corpse). These undead are immune to conditions such as Frightened, Poisoned, and all forms of mental control.

The creature's physical skills, such as Fortitude, Might, Reflex, Stride, Fight, and Shoot, are equal to half of your Magic skill level (rounded up). Additionally, they do not have any Consequence slots, meaning they die when their Physical Stress Pool is reduced to 0.

On each of your turns, you can mentally command any creature you animated with this spell, as long as they are within 20 meters. If you issue no commands, they act only in self-defence. Once given a command, they pursue it until completion.

The creatures remain under your control for 24 hours. To maintain control beyond that, you must cast this spell again before the duration ends. This reasserts control over up to a number of undead equal to your Magic skill. Recasting in this way does not animate new creatures.