You can cast this spell only at night.
You call forth an undead creature to serve as your familiar. This undead acts independently of you, but it always obeys your commands. In combat, it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turn. If you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one. You can decide what action the undead will take and where it will move during its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a particular chamber or corridor. If you issue no commands, the creature only defends itself against hostile creatures and protects the caster from harm.
Once given an order, the undead continues to follow it until its task is complete. When the undead drops to 0 hit points or 24 hours pass, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. It reappears after you cast this spell again. As an action, you can temporarily dismiss the familiar to a pocket dimension. Alternatively, you can dismiss it forever. As an action, while it is temporarily dismissed, you can cause it to reappear in any unoccupied space within 30 feet of you. Whenever the familiar drops to 0 hit points or disappears into the pocket dimension, it leaves behind in its space anything it was wearing or carrying.
While your familiar is within 100 feet of you, you can communicate with it telepathically.
At Higher Levels.
Spell Slot Levels and Summons
- 1st level spell slot: You summon an undead version of a familiar from the "Find Familiar" spell (bat, cat, crab, frog (toad), hawk, lizard, octopus, owl, poisonous snake, fish (quipper), rat, raven, sea horse, spider, or weasel). These undead familiars retain the general characteristics and abilities of their living counterparts but appear visibly undead.
- 2nd level spell slot: You summon 1 skeleton or 1 zombie.
- 3rd level spell slot: You summon 1 ghoul or 1 specter.
- 4th level spell slot: You summon 1 ghast or 1 wight.
- 5th level spell slot: You summon 1 wraith or 1 mummy.
- 6th level spell slot: You summon 1 shadow or 1 ghost.
- 7th level spell slot: You summon 1 banshee or 1 revenant.
- 8th level spell slot: You summon 1 Death Knight or 1 Bodak.
- 9th level spell slot: You summon 1 lich.
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