You fill a small silver cup with your own blood (taking 1d4 piercing damage) while chanting vile curses in the dark. Once the chant is completed, you consume the blood and swear an oath of vengeance against any who harm you. If you are reduced to 0 hit points, your oath is invoked; a Shadow materializes within 5 feet of you. The Shadow attacks the creature that reduced you to 0 hit points, ignoring all other targets, until it or the target is slain, at which point the Shadow dissipates into nothing.   Group Spellcasting. When other spellcasters aid you in casting this spell, an additional Shadow is conjured for each spellcaster other than yourself, up to a maximum of 6 shadows when you are reduced to 0 hit points.   Ritual Focus. If you expend your ritual focus, the spell summons a Banshee instead of a Shadow. If you use group spellcasting, the additional undead are still Shadow.