---
name: Animate Dead
alias: Animate Dead
tags:
  - pf2e/spell
  - pf2e/spell/level_1
  - pf2e/school/necromancy
  - pf2e/spelltype/utility
  - pf2e/tradition/arcane
  - pf2e/tradition/divine
  - pf2e/tradition/occult
level: 1
school: necromancy
type: utility
traditions: [arcane, divine, occult]
time: 3 actions
pf2etime: "*⬽{ .Pathfinder }*"
range: 30 feet
source: "Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide"
duration: sustained up to 1 minute
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`  
***
Your magic dredges up a corpse or skeleton and fills it with necromantic life, and you force the dead to fight at your command. You summon a common creature that has the undead trait and whose level is -1; this creature gains the summoned trait. Heightening the spell increases the maximum level of creature you can summon.  
**Heightened (2nd)** Level 1.  
**Heightened (3rd)** Level 2.  
**Heightened (4th)** Level 3.  
**Heightened (5th)** Level 5.  
**Heightened (6th)** Level 7.  
**Heightened (7th)** Level 9.  
**Heightened (8th)** Level 11.  
**Heightened (9th)** Level 13.  
**Heightened (10th)** Level 15.  
