Create crypt servant was a necromancy spell unique to Zakhara, the Land of Fate. This spell was usable by wizards and priests (clerics).[1][2]
Effects
Create crypt servant was used, similarly to the simpler animate dead spell, to reanimate the body of a deceased person as a special undead called a crypt servant, that was especially suited to protect and maintain a designated tomb. The spell had to be performed at the burial place intended as the servant's domain in order to function. Apart from conventional means, a crypt servant could be destroyed by the reversed form of this spell, destroy crypt servant,[note 2] or dispel magic. The spell intended for the even more powerful undead, destroy crypt thing, was also effective against a crypt servant.[1][2]
Components
Apart from an intact corpse, this spell only needed verbal and somatic components.[1][2]
History
This spell was originally employed in the ruined kingdoms of Kadar and Nog.[1]
Appendix
Notes
- ↑ The province of magic is not stated in the sources. As a necromantic Zakharan spell without relation to the elements, it would belong to the universal province.
- ↑ The name and effect of the reversed form are not explicitely stated in the sources.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Monstrous Compendium included in Tim Beach, Tom Prusa and Steve Kurtz (1993). City of Delights. (TSR, Inc). ISBN 1-56076-589-5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Mark Middleton et al. (1999). Priest's Spell Compendium Volume One. (TSR, Inc), p. 154. ISBN 9780786913596.