> **Casting Time:** 1 hour > **Range:** Touch > **Components:** V, S, M (clay, ash, and mandrake root, all of which the spell consumes, and a jewel-encrusted dagger worth at least 1,000 gp) > **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. **Stats.** The statistics of the [[Homunculus]] are in the Monster Manual. It is your faithful companion, and it dies if you die. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can spend up to half your Hit Dice if the homunculus is on the same plane of existence as you. When you do so, roll each die and add your CON modifier to it. **HP Maximum.** Your HP maximum is reduced by the total, and the homunculus's HP maximum and current hit points are both increased by it. This process can reduce you to no lower than 1 HP, and the change to your and the homunculus's HP ends when you finish your next [[Long Rest]]. The reduction to your HP maximum can't be removed by any means before then, except by the homunculus's death. You can have only one homunculus at a time. If you cast this spell while your homunculus lives, the spell fails. **Classes:** #Wizard