So minions cannot control other creatures.
But the wording of the wraith and wight spawn ability (functionally the same ability) appears to still create spawns despite this limitation.
A living humanoid slain by a wraith’s spectral hand Strike rises as a wraith spawn after 1d4 rounds. This wraith spawn is under the command of the wraith that killed it. It doesn’t have drain life or wraith spawn and becomes clumsy 2 for as long as it is a wraith spawn. If the creator of the wraith spawn dies, the wraith spawn becomes a full-fledged, autonomous wraith; it regains its free will, gains Wraith Spawn, and is no longer clumsy.
I think RAW the victim rises and is permanently debuffed, is technically a minion of its sire but the sire cannot issue a command to it and then starts acting independantly after 1 minute of being "left unattended" as per the minion rules.
Question one: am I getting this right? "under command" isnt explicitly mentioning the minion tag, the wraith could rise and start acting of its own accord immediately, just being nominally compelled to obey orders of the sire that will never arrive. Or it could rise and not do anything waiting for an order that will never arrive... which is not how I want to play it but it is a possible reading.Question two: this is more of an opinion question, what do you think about removing the debuff on spawns if they are independant while the sire is technically alive.
oh sorry, I rewrote part of this while proofreading myself and removed that I was considering this in the situation of a player character's permanent wraith minion created through a ritual.
player creates fresh wraith (minion) >> minion wraith kills victim >> what happens