Create undead minion

Create undead minion was an alteration/necromancy spell that formed a single undead creature, made from either a corpse or the body of a living person.

This spell was only available to the clergies of evil-aligned deities.

Effects
If create undead minion was cast upon corpse, there was a chance it transformed it into a ghoul. The body had to come from an individual that died within a day prior to the spell's casting.

If it was cast upon a living person, the spell transformed them into a more powerful undead being, such as a ghast, wight or in the case of extremely powerful evil clerics, a vampire. This transformation took the spell's entire 10-minute casting time to take effect. During this time the spell's effects could be dispelled, or otherwise negated by the disrupting the caster.

The undead minion created by this spell was fully under the command of the casting cleric. If they died, the undead creature was destroyed or granted free will.

Components
In addition to verbal and somatic components, create undead minion required a number of material components: the holy symbol of the casting cleric, soil taken from a cemetery and a fingernail taken from the type of undead the caster wished to create.