Crawling claw. These animated hands and claws can be raised up by a wizard or priest starting at the 1st level of experience, providing they have the knowledge to do so. The secret of this relatively simple necromantic rite can be found in both the Art of Necromancy and the Book of Shadows (for the wizard version) and also the Nycoptic Manuscripts (for the priest version). After the severed limbs have been assembled, up to one claw may be animated per level of experience of the spell caster. Once created, crawling claws can be directed by the telepathic commands of their creator, but more often, they are given duties similar to that of the skeleton, whose intellect (or complete lack thereof) they share.