Create Undead

Tier 6, Necromancy

Casting Time

1 minute

Range

10 ft

Duration

Instantaneous

Components

V, S, M (one clay pot filled with grave dirt, one clay pot filled with brackish water, and one 150 gm black onyx stone for each corpse)

Mana Cost

9

Classes

Wizard, Cleric, Warlock

You can cast this spell only at night. Choose up to three corpses of Medium or Small humanoids within range. Each becomes a ghoul under your control. You can issue mental commands to them as a bonus action on your turn. They obey for 24 hours, after which they become hostile unless you recast.

At Higher Tiers

At Tier 7, create ghasts or wights. At Tier 8, create mummies. At Tier 9, create a vampire spawn under your control.