You can resurrect the shadows of fallen creatures and keep them as soldiers to fight under your control. As a bonus action, you can attempt to extract the shadow of a creature within 5 feet of you that has been dead for no longer than 5 hours. You must make a Arcana check. The DC for this check is 20 rolled at disadvantage if the challenge rating is higher than your character level. On a failure you can no longer extract the creature's shadow. On a success, the creature rises as a Shadow Soldier using its statblock.
You can issue orders telepathically to your Shadow Soldiers as long as they are within 5 miles of you, and they follow all of your commands unquestioningly. If given no commands, they will simply defend themselves and await your next orders. There is a limit to the number of Shadow Soldiers you can have under your control at a time equal to your Intelligence Modifier. When you create a new Shadow Soldier, if it would exceed your limit, then you must banish one or more of your Shadow Soldiers until back within your limit.
Additionally, as an bonus action, you can choose to store any number of Shadow Soldiers within 60 feet of you in your shadow. They remain there until you use an bonus action or reaction to summon them. When you do, they appear in unoccupied spaces you can see within 60 feet of you. If one of your Shadow Soldiers if ever reduced to 0 hit points, it retreats back into your shadow and cannot be summoned again until fully healed. A Shadow Soldier regains a number of hit points equal to 5 times your level while within a shadow per minute.
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