Speak with Dead

Effect: You grant a deceased creature temporary life so that you may speak with the creature for the duration of the ritual. The creature can communicate with any of the languages it knew in life. The corpse's knowledge is limited to what the creature knew in life and it has no knowledge about events occurring after the creature's death. The corpse has the same dispositions it had in life, and is under no obligation to cooperate, answer questions, nor is it compelled to tell the truth. Uncooperative corpses can be Convinced as normal via Social Skills.

The corpse must be mostly intact (a majority of the skin and vital organs must be present) in order for this ritual to be successful (unless the body is somehow preserved, assume that a creature that has been dead for longer than 1 month per ritual rank has rotted beyond the capabilities of this ritual). If the corpse has been subject to another Speak with Dead ritual within the last week, the ritual fails. The ritual does not affect a corpse that has been turned into an Undead creature.