You grant the semblance of life to a corpse of your choice within range, allowing it to answer questions you pose. Once per day, you can cast Speak with Dead using the Graveglass, with no material components. The ghostly face of the deceased flickers on the screen and answers in a distorted digital voice.
Until the spell ends, you can ask the corpse up to five questions. The corpse knows only what it knew in life, including the languages it knew. Answers are usually brief, cryptic, or repetitive, and the corpse is under no compulsion to offer a truthful answer if you are antagonistic toward it or it recognizes you as an enemy. This spell doesn’t return the creature’s soul to its body, only its animating spirit. Thus, the corpse can’t learn new information, doesn’t comprehend anything that has happened since it died, and can’t speculate about future events.
* - (burning incense)
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