Eshorael's Animate Steed

This spell creates an undead steed. Choose a corpse of a Medium or Large beast (CR 1/2 or lower) and touch the pearl to its forehead, this creates a copy of the pearl containing the necromantic energy to animate it. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target becomes a zombie version of itself (the GM has the creature's game statistics or you can work it out with them).

The steed is under your control for 24 hours, after which it stops obeying any command you've given it. To maintain control of the steed 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 two creatures you have animated with this spell, rather than animating a new one.

Typical examples of steeds to reanimate: a warhorse, a pony, a camel, an elk, or a mastiff. (Your GM might allow other animals to be animated as steeds.) The steed has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is an undead instead of its normal type. Additionally, the pearl placed on the steed during animation bolsters its mind, if your steed has an Intelligence of 2 or less, its Intelligence becomes 3, and it gains the ability to understand one language of your choice that you speak.

Your steed serves you as a mount, both in combat and out, and you have an arcane bond with it that allows you to fight as a seamless unit. While mounted on your steed, you can make any spell you cast that targets self also target your steed. Furthermore thanks to the pearl you can telepathically command your steeds as long as they are within a mile of you.

You can't have more than two steeds animated by this spell at any given time. Any attempt to animate a third steed immediately makes the first thrash about as you're violently pulling at its energies. As an action you can remove the pearl from a steeds forehead, ending the spell and pulling the necromantic energies out of the creature, causing it to collapse.

Additionally, if you are a [classes]school of necromancy;Necromancy Wizard [/classes] the steed can be a skeleton rather than a zombie, however the speed of the mount is then reduced by 5 feet.