This amulet features a silver chain, an ivory setting shaped like a skull and an onyx stone with a blood-red rune. While wearing the amulet while attuned you have the following benefits:

This amulet has 7 charges which you can use to cast the following spells, the charge cost is the base limit for the spell and for all spells you can expend additional charges to increase the level of the spell by 1 for each additional charge spent: False Life (1 charge), Inflict Wounds (1 charge), Bestow Curse (3 charges), Blight (4 charges), Circle of Death (6 charges) and Finger of Death (7 charges).

All spent charges recover at dusk.

In addition you can cast the following spells at-will: Chill Touch and Speak With Dead (cannot affect the same dead creature more than once in a 24 hour period).

You may also cast either Animate Dead at 6th level or Create Undead at 6th level. If you choose the latter who may ignore the material components but must still target corpses as normal. Once you have used this feature you cannot do so again until the next dusk.

As an action you can touch the amulet and expend a spell slot or, if a warlock, one of your Mystic Arcanum uses, to maintain control over any undead you currently control up to a maximum amount equal to 2 plus twice the level of the spell slot or Mystic Arcanum expended: for example if you used a 6th level spell slot or your 6th level Mystic Arcanum you can maintain control of up to 14 undead creatures. Once you have used this feature you cannot do so again until the next dusk.

As an action you can choose to stop controlling one or more undead of your choice you are currently controlling through a necromancy spell.

Whenever you lose control over undead, by any means, that undead will return to death. For example if you created undead using Animate Dead and did not maintain control after 24 hours, instead of the undead becoming independent it instead drops to the floor, dead, back to being the corpse or skeletal remains it was before.

(* Note: The Magic Item creator tools do not allow adding actions or tracking uses in this way. The spells Animate Dead and Create Undead will show as at-will. Please track the use of these spells/features manually. My apologies.)

Notes: cleric, sorcerer, warlock or wizard, Creation, Summoning, Control, Jewelry