Animus' Handy Helpers

This spell creates up to 3 tiny undead servants. Choose up to 3 tiny severed hands within range. Your spell imbues the target with necrotic energy, raising it as an undead creature under your command. The target becomes a crawling claw (the GM has the creature's game statistics).

On each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to mentally command any creature you made with this spell if the creature is within 300 feet of you (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 decide what action the creature 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. The creature may communicate back to you telepathically if it senses anything you may want to know, however it may only send emotions, sounds, and vague images, as it cannot speak. If you issue no commands, the creature only defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete.

The creature is under your control for 24 hours, after which it drops dead, no longer animated.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, you animate two additional crawling claws for each slot level above 2nd. Each of the new creatures must come from a different severed hand.