Description
- School: necromancy (death, evil, fire)
- Classes: antipaladin 1, cleric 2, inquisitor 2, oracle 2, warpriest 2, witch 2
- Casting Time: 1 round
- Range: Touch
- Target: living creature touched
- Duration: instantaneous/10 minutes per HD of subject; see text
- Save: Fortitude negates
- Components: V, S
- Dismissible: No
- Shapeable: No
- Spell Resistance: Yes
This spell functions like death knell, except instead of using the slain target's life energy to enhance yourself, you use it to summon a Small fire elemental resembling a burning, howling version of the slain creature. The elemental acts immediately on your turn and otherwise behaves as if you had summoned it with summon monster II. The elemental remains for a number of rounds equal to the Hit Dice of the slain creature.