Speak With Dead

This is the Spirit Medium version of the spell from the Player’s Guide.

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S, M (burning incense)
Duration: 10 minutes

With your urging, the spirit of a recently dead person will speak briefly with you. The body must be within three miles of where it died, and must not have died more than a day ago. You do not require a complete body as the ability speaks with the spirit and needs no corporeal connection (but there must be some recognizable remnant of the body). You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

You may also be able to use this power to communicate with uneasy spirits who have not yet moved on, regardless of how long ago they died.

Until the spell ends, you can ask the corpse up to five questions. The corpse knows only what it knew in life, including the languages it knew. Answers are usually brief, cryptic, or repetitive. This spell doesn’t return the creature’s soul to its body, only its animating spirit. Thus, the corpse can’t learn new information, doesn’t comprehend anything that has happened since it died, and can’t speculate about future events.

If you are hostile to the corpse or it or it recognizes you as an enemy, it is under no compulsion to tell the truth. Otherwise, it will answer truthfully.

Alternatively: By expending this power you can force an undead creature you can see to make a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier). If it fails, you may take control of it for one round, as the dominate monster spell.

Alternatively: You can call up the spirit of a creature whose body you can see that died in the past five minutes. It does not receive a save to resist. Its spirit manifests in a space you choose within 25 feet of you, and performs a single action of your choice as if it were still alive, then disappears.