A Living Corpse Using Spells

A living corpse combines the physicality of an animated corpse with the mental aspects of an attached spirit, magically joining that which death has pulled apart. A ghost is bound to a magically animated corpse, then given control of the spell that animates the corpse, letting it control the body. The simplest example is a living corpse created by casting spells; the most complicated example is a personal living corpse, one that a magus designs for himself using enchanted items that activate upon his death. Both creation processes use variations of three spells, in addition to others specific to the creation process. Those three spells are as follows:

Imprison ^a Ghost in ^a Vessel

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R: Voice, D: Sun, T: Ind

This spell forces a ghost into a container of some type. The spirit remains bound within the vessel for the duration of the spell. While the spirit cannot affect its prison with magic to force its release, its powers are not otherwise limited.