Alberon's Warpath - is skeleton permeance bugged?

Basically the title. I've tested using the vanilla gem, and the non vaal version on a vaal stone. Socketed in the boots or elsewhere on my character. Skeletons follow but they are definitely not permanent, timing out at the 32 second mark. Wondering if there's a known bug or I'm just doing something wrong. I'm going a full skelly / zombie / spec / golem build.. so it doesn't really break me at all to have them not be permanent, but I wanted to test the boots since I have em to see if it adjusts my play style as I'm leveling up (low 50s atm with this character). Lake of Kalindra standard league.

Edit: Solved. Earendel's Embrace also equppied which causes damage slowly over time to skele's, killing them. Looked like they were just despwaning not dying, but items definitely do not seem to work together.