Animate Shadow

This spell creates an undead servant. Choose a corpse of a Small or Medium humanoid within range. Your spell pulls dark remnants from the creature's cold remains, raising it as a Shadow.

On each turn, you can use a bonus action to mentally command any creature you made with this spell if the creature's within 60ft of you. If you control multiple creatures, you can simultaneously command any or all of them, issuing the same command to each. You decide what action the creature takes and where it moves during its next turn, or you can issue a general command to guard a specific place. If you issue no commands, the creature defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until the task's complete. The creature's under your control for 24 hours, after which it stops obeying any command you've given to it.

To maintain control of the creature for another 24 hours, you must cast this spell on the creature again before the current 24-hour period ends. This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to 2 creatures you've animated with this spell rather than animating a new one.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a slot of 6th or higher, you animate or reassert control over an extra Shadow for every slot above 5th. Each Shadow must come from a different corpse.