Casting Time: 1 Minuet , Range: Touch , Components: V (Vocal) - S (Somatic) - M (Material) , Duration: 10 Days ,
Special Material: A Vial of smelling salts
Effect
You animate the corpse of a creature that has died within the past day whose body is still intact. For the duration, you restore a semblance of life to the deceased creature, putting the reanimated subject in a half-life state but not truly reconnecting the soul to the body.
The reanimated creature has 1 hit point and can move as they could in life. In this state, a target is unable to attack, use spells, or take similarly complex actions. If the creature could speak in life, it has the ability to do so, though its memory is cloudy, making it difficult for the subject to remember even the basic details of its past life. During a limited interaction, the animated corpse could be passed off as alive, but extended conversation reveals something is amiss. A creature that uses its action to examine the body can determine that it is not alive with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC.
The spell also effectively extends the time limit on raising the target from the dead, since days spent reanimated does not count against the time limit of spells such as raise dead, and the reanimated body does not decay. A creature reanimated in this way is not undead, and it can be resurrected by any spell that would return a fully dead creature to life.
At Higher Levels
Lore, some nice lore flavour and/or history