question about fell animate

[blelliot]

I've been looking for a spell to use with fell animate. More specifically, a spell that could be cast on a town's water supply that would deal damage over time, but could not be traced easily, then when its too late, the damage kills the person, hence the fell animate activates. The plan is to turn a chunk of commoners into zombies. Is there a spell that could work for this idea?

[Thanatosia]

Next thing you know you'll have Arthas running around culling the populace...

[Fouredged Sword]

Well, I can't think of something you could put in the water, but Contagion (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/contagion.htm) could work with a liberal reading of fell animate and it's triggers. The disease would raise the first CL worth of creatures it kills and zombies.

[Zombulian]

Cloudkill? It's not water based but a Cloudkill in the night is waaaay easier.

[The Viscount]

Befoul as found in LoM and FCI will do the job if all you want is commoner zombies.