c 'wood woad'c 'wood woad' groundc 'wood woad' <object on ground>
This necromancer spell forms an animated creature from a large piece of wood. Most any kind of wood can be used, so long as it is large enough and doesn't have magical properties that interfere with the spellcasting. Most necromancers prefer to use pristine wood found in the wild, often collected with the 'gather' command.
The easiest way to create a wood woad is to 'gather' several pieces of wood, drop them all in one place, then cast the spell on one of them. All the pieces will merge together to create your woad.
The wood woad has no intelligence and is largely uncontrollable, but it will assist the caster in combat and act as a punching bag.
This spell is part of the necromancer 'Animation' skill tree, which allows the creation of several different types of animated entities. Each has different strengths and weaknesses, but due to the nature of the magic you may only control one at a time.
Animated entities such as this require a small amount of mana to sustain, and may come apart if you run out of mana.
If you bloodcast this spell, the resulting wood woad gains extra resistance to breath and normal damage, but becomes more vulnerable to toxic damage.
