Create Undead
School: Necromancy [Evil]
Tier: 6
Casting
Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 CL)
Effect
Target: One corpse
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
Description
A much more potent spell than Animate Dead, this evil spell allows you to infuse a dead body with negative energy to create more powerful sorts of undead: ghouls, ghasts, mummies, and mohrgs. The type or types of undead you can create are based on your caster level, as shown on the table below. As with Animate Dead, you must spend Magic components based upon its power (at GM discretion). This is usually approximately 1 Poor-quality Magic component per two HD the undead possesses.
Table: Create Undead
| Caster Level | Undead Created | Additional Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| 11th (or lower) | Ghoul | |
| 11th (or lower) | Hollow helm | Corpse must be wearing suit of heavy armor |
| 11th+ | Huecuva | Corpse of a clergyman (preferably evil-aligned) |
| 11th+ | Crawling hand | Severed hand of a Medium or smaller humanoid |
| 11th+ | Juju zombie | |
| 11th+ | Skeletal champion | |
| 12th-14th | Ghast, festrog | |
| 12th+ | Draugr | |
| 12th+ | Guardian phantom armor | Corpse must be wearing suit of heavy armor |
| 13th | Attic whisperer | Crushing despair, fear, corpse of a humanoid child |
| 14th+ | Blast shadow | |
| 14th+ | Crawling hand (giant) | Enlarge person, severed hand of a Large or larger humanoid |
| 14th+ | Wight | |
| 15th+ | Giant phantom armor | Corpse must be wearing suit of heavy armor |
| 15th-17th | Mummy | |
| 15th+ | Crypt thing | |
| 16th+ | Phantom lancer | Humanoid corpse must be wearing suit of heavy armor; mount must be wearing barding |
| 17th+ | Dullahan | Decapitated humanoid corpse |
| 18th+ | Mohrg | |
| 18th+ | Rajput Ambari | The full skeleton of an adult elephant and adornment of a regal bearing |
You may create less powerful undead than your level would allow if you choose. Created undead are not automatically under the control of their animator. If you are capable of commanding undead, you may attempt to command the undead creature as it forms. This spell must be cast at night.