Summon Undead

Version 0.34: This article is up to date for the latest stable release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

Summon Undead
Casting noise	7
Spell noise	0
Flags	Mons abjure, Monster

Summons multiple undead monsters, creating various ghosts, vampires, wraiths and other lesser undead.

Summon Undead is a monster-only spell which summons multiple undead monsters around the caster. While many are weak, flayed ghosts are threatening even to endgame characters, all types of wraith can slow you, and phantasmal warriors can cut your willpower.

Creatures summoned equals 1 + 1d(HD/5 + 1). It can create these monsters, with equal probability for each:

W Bes kemwar	V Jiangshi	W Flayed ghost	Z Zombie
Z Simulacrum	Z Spectral thing	z Laughing skull	M Mummy
V Vampire	z Wight	W Wraith	W Shadow wraith
W Freezing wraith	W Phantasmal warrior	W Shadowghast

Derived undead (zombies, skeletons, simulacrum, spectral things) vary based on your current branch.

The following enemies cast Summon Undead:

• z Curse skull
• M Mummy priest
• z Murray
• V Vampire mage

History

• Prior to 0.34 spell could summon skeletons which became Draugr in that version, additionally Bes kemwar was added as a possible summon.
• Prior to their removal in 0.26, this spell could summon hungry ghosts.
• Many of the monsters summoned by this spell were changed dramatically in 0.13.