You can see ethereal spirits, ghosts, and souls. You get one use per day of the spell Speak with the dead without using a spell slot. You can also, as a action, hold a newly deceased soul and guide it to the afterlife of the ethereal plane. With unwilling souls, you must do a contested wisdom check (psychic grapple).
Only when holding a soul can you, as an bonus action, open a portal to the ethereal plane and stay there. While in the plane, the soul will want to escape, and keeping it takes concentration (con save >10). If the soul escapes or is let go, you are expelled back to the material planes. Otherwise, it is as if you have cast the spell of Etherealness:
"You step into the border regions of the Ethereal Plane, in the area where it overlaps with your current plane. You remain in the Border Ethereal for the duration or until you use your action to dismiss the spell (you loose a soul). During this time, you can move in any direction. If you move up or down, every foot of movement costs an extra foot. You can see and hear the plane you originated from, but everything there looks gray, and you can’t see anything more than 60 feet away. While on the Ethereal Plane, you can only affect and be affected by other creatures on that plane. Creatures that aren’t on the Ethereal Plane can’t perceive you and can’t interact with you, unless a special ability or magic has given them the ability to do so. You ignore all objects and effects that aren’t on the Ethereal Plane, allowing you to move through objects you perceive on the plane you originated from. When the spell ends, you immediately return to the plane you originated from in the spot you currently occupy. If you occupy the same spot as a solid object or creature when this happens, you are immediately shunted to the nearest unoccupied space that you can occupy and take force damage equal to twice the number of feet you are moved. This spell has no effect if you cast it while you are on the Ethereal Plane or a plane that doesn’t border it, such as one of the Outer Planes."
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