Extract Specter, Greater

School necromancy [evil]; Level cleric/oracle 4, medium 4, occultist 4, shaman 4, spiritualist 4, sorcerer/wizard 4, witch 4

CASTING

Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, M (onyx gems worth at least 25 gp per Hit Die of the created specter)

EFFECT

Range touch
Target one touched corpse
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no

DESCRIPTION

This spell functions as extract specter, save that the specter you create has no duration. When creating a permanent specter, it counts as an undead creature with twice it’s Hit Dice against the number of undead creatures you can control using animate dead (a caster can normally control 4 times their CL in Hit Dice of undead using animate dead).

This created specter remains under your control indefinitely.

If you would create additional undead that would put you beyond your controlled Hit Dice cap, you may release specters from your control as if they were undead creatures created through animate dead.