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Raise the Dead (Su): As a standard action, you can summon a single skeleton or zombie to serve you. The undead creature has a number of Hit Dice equal to your oracle level. It remains for a number of rounds equal to your Charisma modifier. At 7th level, you can summon a bloody skeleton or fast zombie. At 15th level, you can summon an advanced skeleton or zombie. You can use this ability once per day plus one additional time per day at 10th level.
Can an Oralce use this ability to summon a skeleton or zombie that has other templates on it? For example, can a Level 10 Bones Oracle summon a 10HD creature with the Giant template on it, so long as the final HD of the summon is 10HD or less?
As written you can only use the templates specifically allowed.
Bloody is a skeleton template, Fast is a zombie template, Advanced is a general purpose template. The ability specifically says you may summon your undead with one of those templates depending on level. Those are the only templates specifically allowed with the ability and the ability has no wording to imply that you can choose others. As for having a bloody/fast and advanced minion, the ability says you may pick bloody/fast OR advanced. It does not say you can stack them.
I can see that interpretation and I believe that's the "spirit" of the ability.
But what about this: Can the Oralce summon ANY creature type on which to put the skeleton or zombie template, as long as the level limit on HD is not broken?
As it's not covered by the ability, then the answer would seem to be no. Looks like you get just a basic nothing but generic skeleton/zombie + template minion. It's unfortunate as the ability really isn't that good as written due to how bleh the creature is, the duration, and the limited uses per day. If you are doing a home game I would suggest asking if you can adjust at least one of though variables.