Awaken

Effect

Expending 22 Mana Points: Casting this spell takes 24 hours. The target is either an animal or tree touched. The effect duration is instantaneous. You awaken a tree or animal to humanlike sentience. To succeed, you must make a Will save (DC 10 + the animal’s current HD, or the HD the tree will have once awakened). The awakened animal or tree is friendly toward you. You have no special empathy or connection with a creature you awaken, although it serves you in specific tasks or endeavors if you communicate your desires to it.
An awakened tree has characteristics as if it were an animated object (see the Monster Manual), except that it gains the plant type and its Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores are each 3d6. An awakened plant gains the ability to move its limbs, roots, vines, creepers, and so forth, and it has senses similar to a human’s. An awakened animal gets 3d6 Intelligence, +1d3 Charisma, and +2 HD. Its type becomes magical beast (augmented animal). An awakened animal can’t serve as an animal companion, familiar, or special mount.
An awakened tree or animal can speak one language that you know, plus one additional language that you know per point of Intelligence bonus (if any).
XP Cost: 250 XP.
Expending 30 Mana Points: It takes 10 minutes to cast this spell. It affects the tree touched. The duration is 1 day per mana rank. This spell turns an oak tree into a protector or guardian. The spell can be cast on only a single tree at a time; while liveoak is in effect, you can’t cast it again on another tree. The tree on which the spell is cast must be within 10 feet of your dwelling place, within a place sacred to you, or within 300 feet of something that you wish to guard or protect.
Liveoak must be cast on a healthy, Huge oak. A triggering phrase of up to one word per caster mana rank is placed on the targeted oak. For instance, “Attack any persons who come near without first saying ‘sacred mistletoe’ “ is an eleven-word trigger phrase that you could use at 11 mana ranks or higher. The liveoak spell triggers the tree into animating as a treant (see the Monster Manual). At the DM’s option, you can extrapolate statistics for a smaller tree from the treant statistics if you cast likeoak on a smaller oak.
If liveoak is dispelled, the tree takes root immediately, wherever it happens to be. If released by you, the tree tries to return to its original location before taking root.

Material Components

XP Cost: 250 XP

Gestures & Ritual

Verbal, Somatic, Focus, XP

Related Discipline

Nature

Related School

Transmutation

Range

Touch

Level

22 or 30 mana