Priest spellLevel 3
Speak With Dead
- School
- Necromancy
- Sphere
- Divination
- Range
- 1
- Components
- V / S / M
- Duration
- Special
- Casting time
- 1 turn
- Area of effect
- 1 creature
- Special
- Source
- PHB
Flavor
The priest briefly recalls a spirit to its corpse, compelling it to answer a few questions.
Mechanics
Compels the spirit of a corpse to answer a limited number of questions (number and how 'fresh' a corpse can be queried scale with the priest's ); the answers are brief and the dead may be terse or cryptic, answering in the language it knew. The corpse must be reasonably intact. : incense/burning herbs and the holy symbol.