Casting Time: 1 Hour Range: 10 feet Components: V, S, M (clay, ash, and mandrake root, all of which the spell consumes, and a jewel-encrusted dagger worth at least 1,000gp) Duration: Instantaneous While speaking an intricate incantation, you cut yourself with a jewel-encrusted dagger, taking 2d4 piercing damage that can't be reduced in any way. You then drip your blood on the spell's other components and touch them, transforming them into a special construct called a homunculus. You can only have one homunculus at a time. If you cast this spell while your homunculus lives, the spell fails.