Walking Dead

You enthrall a corpse using a small amount of magical energy, allowing it only to stand and follow you mindlessly.

Touch a corpse or pile of bones from a medium or smaller humanoid. It rises as a Zombie or Skeleton respectively for 8 hours or until dispelled. It can and will only shamble behind the caster, trying to stay within 5 feet whenever possible. The undead is mindless, can't sneak, and will follow the shortest possible route to the caster in a straight line, even if it would walk off a cliff or otherwise harm/incapacitate itself. If the undead moves further than 100 feet from the caster, the effect of the spell ends and it returns to an inert corpse.

Only two bodies can be under the effects of Walking Dead at the same time.

At 5th level, 8th level, 11th level, and 14th level, an additional body may be under the effects of Walking Dead.

Illustration by Carl Critchlow