Lestat's Lieutenant
(Illusion, Necromancy)

Range:  Special
Components:  S, M
Duration:  1d6 turns + 1 turn per level
Casting Time:  1 round
Area of Effect:  Special
Saving Throw:  None

This spell creates a clone of the wizard. The clone has hit points equal to the wizard's level (eg.: 14 HP for a clone of a 14th-level wizard), and all physical (non-spell) abilities of the wizard. The clone's mind overlaps with the wizard's, though the clone's is by no means complete. The clone can carry out reasonably complex tasks (DM's discretion), and is essentially an extension of the wizard.
The clone is created wreathed in simple illusions which mimic the wizard's possessions, though they serve no other purpose, and can be discarded at the clone's will (as the clone may have real clothes or the like available). The clone itself is a magical construct, and is detectable as such in the normal ways (eg., detect magic or true seeing will reveal its true nature). Due to the mental overlap of the clone's mind with the wizard's, while within 100 meters of the wizard, the clone has the following properties:
•	The wizard will sense where the clone is, regardless of sight and the like (similar to the sense of where one's arm is).
•	The wizard can communicate telepathically with the clone (silently and accurately convey concepts, as if talking to oneself).
•	The wizard can cast memorised spells through the clone. The spell is cast normally, with the wizard performing all actions necessary for the casting (the clone will reflexively mimic the non-material components), the only difference being the spell's point of origin, which is the clone: all effects, not including side effects, use the clone as the wizard ("side effects" include such things as the ageing caused by certain spells).
•	The wizard can, at will, swap the clone's senses with his own. For example, the wizard can swap sight with the clone, and see through the clone's eyes (and the clone would see through the wizard's). The wizard can of course swap back to his normal sight at will.
The material components consist of a representation of the wizard (a carved figure or a clay model, for example) coated with the dust of a crushed pearl (made of a perfectly round pearl, worth at least 1000 gp), and a drop of the wizard's blood. When the spell is cast, the figurine is placed where it is to appear, and it transforms into the clone (when the clone disappears at the end of spell duration, the figurine is gone).
Optional extension: the spell has a (25 - wizard's level)% chance (with a minimum of 1%) of creating a sentient clone, i.e.: the clone is under the control of the DM. The clone is in all other ways the same as a normal clone, though should the wizard die, the clone will gain full abilities of the wizard. Sentient clones have the same personality and memories as the wizard (and thus know the spell effects, the fact that they will expire, etc.). Basically, a DM can enjoy some interesting roleplaying here.

