In this scenario a person that has been dead for less than 10 days is Reincarnated. Their old body is still there. Someone then casts Speak with Dead on the body.
Question: Would the Speak with Dead spell work?
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\$\begingroup\$ Related: Can you raise your original body as an undead after moving to a clone? \$\endgroup\$ – goodguy5 May 3 '19 at 12:07
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Speak with dead clearly states that:
This spell doesn't return the creature's soul to its body, only its animating spirit.
Which comes to mean that the corpse itself is animated as a sort of puppet, retaining the memories it organically had while it lived. Since this is separate from the soul, the now reincarnated guy wouldn't even know this was happening.
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4\$\begingroup\$ That could be an interesting plot - someone desperate to retrieve or destroy their old body before secret information can be extracted from it... \$\endgroup\$ – PJRZ May 3 '19 at 9:13
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1\$\begingroup\$ Hello @Overthinks, not really, it gets a 'animating spirit', but from the wording I think it's more like a foreign magical entity rather than something native to the corpse. \$\endgroup\$ – user3631225 May 3 '19 at 14:21
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\$\begingroup\$ @user3631225 the spirit has all the knowledge of the person when they were alive. This still seems kinda weird. \$\endgroup\$ – Overthinks May 3 '19 at 16:35
