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# Speak with Dead

Level
  3
School
  Necromancy
Keywords
  None
Range
  10 meters
Duration
  10 minutes
Mana Cost
  3

You grant a semblance of life and intelligence to a corpse of your choice within range, allowing it to answer questions you pose.

- The corpse must still have a mouth and may not be undead.

- The spell fails if the corpse was targeted by this spell within the last 10 days.

- You may ask up to five questions during the duration.

- The corpse knows only what it knew in life, and its responses are typically brief, cryptic, or repetitive.

- The corpse is not compelled to tell the truth if it considers you hostile.

- This spell does not return the creature’s soul—only a flicker of animating spirit.

- The corpse cannot learn new things or infer events after its death.

## Stunts

### Lingering Voice

The spell duration increases to 30 minutes, allowing you to ask up to 10 questions instead of 5.

### Compelled Testimony

Once per scene, you can compel the corpse to speak truthfully, even if it would normally lie to you. This does not bypass the corpse’s lack of knowledge.

### Cryptkeeper’s Ears

You may cast this spell on a corpse that does not speak your language. The responses you receive are automatically translated to a language you understand.

### Residual Emotion

You sense the emotional state of the corpse as it answers: fear, hatred, sadness, serenity, etc. This may help interpret ambiguous or misleading replies.

### Silent Witness

If the corpse witnessed a violent event in the 24 hours before death, you may see a brief image or flashback through its eyes (GM discretion, once per casting).