Animate dead spell

Spell 'animate dead'.

• Group: 'necromancy'.
• Execution delay: 3 seconds.
• Costs: mana 100.
• Spell type: utility magic.
• Target: an item on the ground.
• Available to classes: necromancer 38, vampire 42
• Only for alignment: evil.

Format: c 'animate dead' corpse

A zombie animated by this spell will serve its new master for a week of real time (two weeks for followers of the Queen of Ravens), unless it gets killed sooner, and then crumbles to pieces. The health of the zombie depends on the original... hmm... material, while the level of the resulting creature depends on the caster: the higher your spell level, the higher the zombie's level will be.

The zombie inherits certain skills and characteristics from the original creature, and its overall combat capability and responsiveness to orders improve for followers of the Queen of Ravens -- the orders of everyone else the dull zombie may not always understand.

Traditionally, zombies crave fresh brains the most. A zombie properly fed with brains can recover its strength.

WARNING: This is a ritual, do not interrupt the process until it is fully complete -- otherwise the spell will fail.