---
name: Shadow Spy
alias: Shadow Spy
tags:
  - pf2e/spell
  - pf2e/spell/level_3
  - pf2e/school/necromancy
  - pf2e/spelltype/utility
  - pf2e/tradition/occult
  - pf2e/tradition/primal
level: 3
school: necromancy
type: utility
traditions: [occult, primal]
time: 1 minute
pf2etime: ""
range: 120 feet
source: "Pathfinder Dark Archive"
duration: until the next time you make your daily preparations
traits:
  - common
  - necromancy
components:
  - material
  - somatic
  - verbal
---
# `=this.name`
==necromancy==

*Source* `=this.source`  
**Traditions** `=this.traditions`  
**Cast** `=this.time` | `=this.components`  
**Range** `=this.range`  
**Duration** `=this.duration`  
***
You mix blood, soil, and shadow together to form a half-real homunculus in the shape of a crow, sparrow, or other bird. You then command the bird to fly to a location within range and observe all around it. The bird has the statistics of a homunculus, save that it has all of your senses and shares your Perception modifier. Once the spell's duration elapses or upon a trigger you set (which must be fairly simple-"at dusk" or "when the judge leaves"), the bird flies to your location. If you wring its neck and drink its blood, you learn all that it saw since its creation.