{"id":1037,"date":"2024-11-02T18:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T18:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/AvV-Rules-5e\/?page_id=1037"},"modified":"2024-12-22T03:19:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T03:19:38","slug":"speak-with-dead-alt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bloodstone-press.com\/AvV-Rules-5e\/speak-with-dead-alt\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak with Dead (Alt)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Level 3 Necromancy <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casting Time:<\/strong> Action
Range: <\/strong>Touch
Components: <\/strong>V, S, M (a sheet of flax; ink made from red ochre, burnt myrrh, juice of wormwoood, and evergreen)
Duration:<\/strong> 10 Minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You grant the semblance of life to a corpse you touch, allowing it to answer questions you pose. The corpse must have a mouth, and this spell fails if the deceased creature was Undead when it died. The spell also fails if the corpse was the target of this spell within the past 10 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until the spell ends, you can ask the corpse up to five questions. The corpse knows only what it knew in life, including the languages it knew. Answers are usually brief, cryptic, or repetitive, and the corpse is under no compulsion to offer a truthful answer if you are antagonistic toward it or it recognizes you as an enemy. This spell doesn\u2019t return the creature\u2019s soul to its body, only its animating spirit. Thus, the corpse can\u2019t learn new information, doesn\u2019t comprehend anything that has happened since it died, and can\u2019t speculate about future events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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