Create Undead
Ritual 2
Primary Check Arcana (expert), Occultism (expert), or Religion (expert)
Secondary Checks Religion
Range 10 feet
Target(s) 1 dead creature
You transform the target into an undead creature with a level up to that allowed in the Creature Creation Rituals table. There are many versions of this ritual, each specific to a particular type of undead (one ritual for all zombies, one for corpsefolk, one for nihili, and so on), and the rituals that create rare undead are also rare. Some forms of undead, such as necrovites, form using their own unique methods and can't be created with a version of create undead.
Critical SuccessThe target becomes an undead creature of the appropriate type. If it's at least 4 levels lower than you, you can make it a minion. This gives it the minion trait, meaning it can use 2 actions when you command it, and commanding it is a single action that has the auditory and concentrate traits. You can have a maximum of four minions under your control. If it's intelligent and doesn't become a minion, the undead is helpful to you for awakening it, though it's still a horrid and evil creature. If it's unintelligent and doesn't become a minion, you can give it one simple command. It pursues that goal single-mindedly, ignoring any of your subsequent commands.
SuccessAs critical success, except an intelligent undead that doesn't become your minion is only friendly to you, and an unintelligent undead that doesn't become your minion leaves you alone unless you attack it. It marauds the local area rather than following your command.
FailureYou fail to create the undead.
Critical FailureYou create the undead, but its soul, tortured by your foul necromancy, is full of nothing but hatred for you. It attempts to destroy you.