Minor Accursed Rite
(Necromancy)

Range:  0
Components:  V, S, M
Duration:  Permanent
Casting Time:  1 hour
Area of Effect:  Living creature touched
Saving Throw:  Negates

This spell turns its victim into an undead. The type of undead is selected randomly from those between the power of a wight and a vampire. The undead is partially controllable by the wizard. This is a risky spell: each command given is a chance for the victim to become a fully free undead of the type, unless the wizard also is a member of the same type of undead. The thus created undead is free-willed, but may still be subject to other spells that remove this freedom, of course. The change takes place over a period of two weeks of gradually worsening illness in which time the spell can be dispelled by a dispel magic, cure disease, and heal, cast in any order any time during the two weeks, not necessarily one straight after the other. The DM should make up some appropriate material component.
Note: the spell can create some quite weird undead, such as vampire snakes. Controlling requires a common language and sufficient Intelligence on the part of the target. The spell in itself doesn't modify statistics such as intellect, even if the undead Strength of 18/00 on a vampire does apply to non-humanoids as well.

