Using this spell, you can return the spirit of a deceased creature to its body, granting temporary life to a creature dead for no longer than 13 days. Life and health are both restored, though any condition that prevents a successful resurrection also prevents a temporary resurrection.
The affected creature radiates necromantic magic, though appears to be a normal living creature to all other tests. All powers, abilities, knowledge, and memories of the subject return, but the temporarily revived being is your thrall. At the end of the spell's duration, the affected creature literally drops dead.
Alternatively, you may cast this spell as temporary death rather than temporary resurrection, which seemingly kills a subject instantly, if they fail a Constitution saving throw. While to all tests the creature has been slain and cannot be raised or resurrected, and the creature's body may cool and stiffen, the normal process of decay does not occur. At the end of the spell (or at a prior time you previously specified), the target suddenly returns to life in the exact condition as at the time of death. The state of temporary death can be countered before it runs its course only by a resurrection or wish spell. The creature is regarded as having died for the purposes of magical items.
* - (a bit flint and steel that are struck together and destroyed during the casting of Temporary Resurrection, and a bit of coal and moss for the casting of Temporary Death)
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