5ead/spells/md/deep_magic_5e/extract-knowledge.md

Extract Knowledge

• Level: 6 necromancy
• Classes: Bard, Cleric, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a blank page)
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Source: Deep Magic 5e

By touching a recently deceased corpse, you gain one specific bit of knowledge from it that was known to the creature in life. You must form a question in your mind as part of casting the spell; if the corpse has an answer to your question, it reveals the information to you telepathically. The answer is always brief—no more than a sentence—and very specific to the framed question. It doesn’t matter whether the creature was your friend or enemy; the spell compels it to answer in any case.