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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2218982" data-attributes="member: 707">A Will O' Wisp can't be made into a skeleton, as it doesn't have a skeleton.  Though I suppose it could arguably be made into a zombie.Note that you are petitioning your deity to send you a creature to help you out.  As a DM, this would work once, then your deity would never allow this spell to work for you again.  Also note that the alignment of the creature you ask for determines the alignment of the spell, meaning asking for an evil creature makes this an [Evil] spell.Where exactly have you read this?  The templates are to give DMs options when world-building, not to suggest that every template exists in every world, as you yourself note.Shades and Shadow Conjuration can only emulate Conjuration (Summoning) and Conjuration (Creation) spells.  Since they emulate summoning but not calling, any creature you create with these spells dissipates into nothing once killed, and can't be reanimated, period.I would rule no.I think you're bending these spells so far out of whack they aren't even recognizable.  If I were your DM, I'd deny all of it, then suggest that instead you write up a custom (ie. researchable) spell proposal of your own devising, then you and I could balance it, put it at an appropriate level, and add it to the game as something your PC developed through his own research.</blockquote>