Creating a Living Corpse

To create a living corpse, the magus needs to bind a ghost to an animated corpse. The magus must create a spell that animates a corpse, a spell that summons a specific spirit, a spell that anchors the spirit to the corpse, and a spell that allows the spirit to control the corpse. The magus must decide how he will make these spell effects permanent, and a constructed enchanted item is the most obvious.

A magus who knows the Minor Hermetic Virtue: Spell Binding could summon other spirits to maintain the spells, creating a small group of inanimate objects to sustain the spells and linked spirits (The Mysteries Revised Edition, page 27). While common, and reportedly widespread throughout the Order of Hermes, not every magus knows how to bind spells. But every magus does know how to enchant magic items, which means that a living corpse is attainable to all who seek to be one.