Zin-carla

A zin-carla, or a "spirit-wraith", is a drow spell of rising a corpse. It occourse in the Forgotten Realms settings, in the trilogi "Dark Elf Trilogy" by R. A. Salvatore. It is Lolth's, or Lloth in drowish, greatest gift to a matron mother. It is only granted, if Lolth gets chaos or another kind of enjyonment out of the spirit-wraiths mission.

In "Dark Elf Trilogy", Lolth grants Zin-carla to Matron Malice, so she may hunt and kill her renegade son, Drizzt Do'Urden. But to control a spirit-wraith, the Matron Mother have to grant the wraith a bit of it's former counsience. As an example, Zaknafein Do'Urden is sendt, as a Wraith, to hunt and kill his son Drizzt Do'Urden. But the controlling Matron Mother grants him just a bit too much of his mind and thougths back, and he destroys his own body to keep him away from his son. If a Zin-carla fails, Lolth will be ultimately angry, since it is a utmost honor, whom the reciver has failed to use proberly.

It is also said by some, the Jarlaxle Baenre also is a Zin-carla, yet one somehow escaped the toils of his Matron Mother.