.: Help for assess

When creatures fall, their remains can be raised as undead
companions through necromantic magic. Before attempting to
reanimate a corpse, use assess to study it.

━━━ Usage ━━━

  assess corpse name

━━━ What It Tells You ━━━

Assessment reveals the corpse's power level and the forms of
undeath it can sustain. Weak remains can only support basic
skeletons, while stronger corpses can sustain more powerful
undead types — wraiths, golems, and other terrible forms.

Your manifestation skill determines which undead
types you can actually raise. A master necromancer can pull
forth a flesh golem from a suitable corpse where a novice
could only coax out a simple skeleton.

Assessment also tells you how much of your conviction each
form would set aside while it serves. A bound companion
reserves part of your conviction pool for as long as it is
fielded; higher manifestation skill (and certain mutations)
shrink that reservation. If you could not spare the
conviction right now, the assessment says so.

━━━ How To Actually Raise It ━━━

Raising is a spell, not a command of its own. There is no
raise command. Cast the spell for the form you want at
the corpse:

  cast raise-skeleton corpse

The forms are raise-skeleton, raise-zombie, raise-spectre,
raise-wraith, raise-golem and raise-vampire. You must know
the spell, and your manifestation skill must be equal to the
form, or nothing answers you.

━━━ Important Notes ━━━

Assessment is purely informational — you don't need to assess
a corpse before raising it. It's useful for understanding
what's available and planning your ritual.

Every undead you raise adds to your total companion count,
so factor that into your decisions.

━━━ Skill Progression ━━━

Using assess trains your manifestation skill. Every
assessment is a chance to improve, and the chance grows rarer
as the skill advances -- so it is how far you have come that
sets the pace, not how many corpses you have studied.

See also: help manifestation, help companion, help progression