"ANIMATE DEAD"

Type: creation                      Area of Effect: 1 corpse
Damage: -
Save: -                             Duration: (Int) to (Int+6) hours
Class: Necromancer

Want to create your own personal night of the living dead?  Perhaps, you're just
tired of getting thrashed by foes and could use some protection.  Or maybe one of
your muddy buddies got killed and you want to raise their corpse and create
a servant out of them.  Creepy!

Whatever the evil reason, you can animate corpes and turn them into loyal followers.
If your cast level is high enough and the deceased was high enough level, then the
thing that arises from the corpse might look like their former selves.  They also
might even remember some of their former skills.

You'll get a skeleton from a pile of bones, you might get a vampire from evil
things like demoniacs and dreadlords or liches from wizards.  Liches, please!
Most everything else creates a zombie (but they can be super powerful - up to
level 75 depending on your cast level).

You can't just keep animating corpses forever.  You're limited to a set number of
total follower levels (add all your follower's character level up).  Your max is
shown when casting and you'd go over the max.  Your max is higher if you are in Lich
Mortify form.

Usage: animate <corpse>

See Also: SPELLS, CASTING, "SPELL ALIASES", RESISTANCES, "SPELL RANKS", LEARN
          FOLLOWERS, ORDER, MORTIFY