Mummify

After careful ceremonial preparations lasting five days, and the application of many rare and expensive unguents, the caster is able to call back the spirit of the dead to reanimate its corpse as a mummy. Mummies so created are of the standard sort (see its monster entry). Mummies do not count against the normal limits of controllable undead (per re-animation spell), but the caster can maintain control over as many Hit Dice of mummies as their own level. Mummies do not travel well, being slow and quickly wear down, taking damage on long journeys. They make better guardians for the animator's lair. A separate casting of the spell is necessary for each mummy created. It might be possible to create a mummy from a large humanoid such as a giant, however the difficulty will be greater (the GM determines how much more difficult). More powerful mummies, such as those with intact class- based powers, are generally created through the use of the undeath spell. Mummification is generally in the realm of the Necromancer, but occasionally Clerics of certain cults might have access as well.