As you cast this spell, you burn incense and appease the spirit of a corpse you touch to take the form of a ghost. The ghost appears in a space within 5 feet of the corpse. It possess all of the knowledge it knew in life. The ghost obeys your verbal commands but is under no compulsion to be friendly towards you. Spirits summoned from the afterlife often resent being summoned and will intentionally misinterpret orders just to be returned.
The ghost is bound to you and can not travel more than 300 feet away from you. Additionally, you may use an action on your turn to summon the spirit to a space within 5 feet of you. You can only have one ghost bound to you in this way at a time. If you cast this spell again while a ghost already exists, the spirit of the first ghost returns to the afterlife and you can not summon that spirit again. If you die while bonded to a ghost, both you and the ghost are sent to the afterlife.
* - (rare incense worth at least 500 gp, which the spell consumes)
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