This spell creates an undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small or Tiny creature within range. Roll intelligence, if your roll is 10 or higher the spell succeeds, if it is 9 or lower the pile of bones or corpse can not be raised from the dead by this spell for 24 hours. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target becomes a skeleton, if you chose bones, or a zombie, if you chose a corpse (the GM has the creature's game statistics). The creature will die the instant it goes past 30 feet of the caster. This spell can only control one creature at a time, if it is cast again, whether or not it succeeded, the previous creature dies.
On each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to mentally command the creature you made with this spell. 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. If you issue no commands, the creature will not move, nor defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete unless you start to move out of range, at 25 feet the creature will begin walking back to the caster unless commanded otherwise. Creatures raised in this way are unable to be healed above their raised starting health. A creature raised from the dead by this spell will not have it's full health unless cast at higher levels. A creature raised by this spell as a zombie will have 1/2 it's maximum health, as a skeleton it will have 1/4 it's maximum health.
At Higher Levels. When cast at higher levels the creature will retain up to all of its health at 4th level for skeletons, and 2nd level for zombies.
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