Basic

Tremens - Level 1
You can instill a corpse with a brief jolt of life. Though this discipline is insufficient to actually animate or control bodies, you can make them start or twitch spasmodically. Naturally, this sight frightens those unaccustomed to the mobile dead. The body then twitches or moves briefly in a fashion that you dictate, from sitting up to blinking to flailing an arm momentarily. With a little extra concentration, you can implant a command into the corpse instead, causing it to move (once only) as you direct when a certain event comes to pass. Corpses twitching in this fashion cannot actually attack or inflict damage, but they can certainly startle the unwary.

Apprentice's Brooms - Level 2
Your skills in the Bone Path allow you to animate the dead, bringing ambulatory motion and a semblance of understanding to a cold corpse. Though they cannot fight, these zombies follow simple instruction, performing tasks that you set to them. Corpses animated with this discipline cannot fight…but perform the single task as you direct until they complete the job or until time or damage destroys them. Cadavers continue to rot, slowly, even after beings imbued with this energy.

Intermediate

Shambling Hordes - Level 3
When you raise the dead to do your bidding, they come in skeletal hordes and withered masses that obey your every command, working and fighting until destroyed. Any body, no matter how decomposed, can be raised to serve your will. As long as the skeleton is reasonably intact, the corpse rises to do your bidding. Such guardians can perform tasks or fight for you with no regard to their own welfare. They can be given orders to attack people or to guard an area, and they wait tirelessly until destroyed. Decomposition will continue for corpses in varying states of decay, although completely skeletal guardians will be unaffected.

Soul Stealing - Level 4
Your mastery of animated flesh and spirit allows you to pull the soul from a living or undead body. With Soul Stealing, you draw out the victim’s soul, turning it temporarily into a wraith while leaving the body as an empty husk.

Advanced

Daemonic Possession - Level 5
Though you are not dealing with actual infernal spirits, you can cast a willing soul into a fresh corpse or inanimate body. Thus embedded, the soul takes control of the body, turning it into a new physical home. Dead bodies continue to decay, and thus, they last no more than a week, but this trick provides a perfect temporary repose for a free-floating soul or summoned ghost.