Merge with Nature

This spell allows a female priest of Sune to avoid old age and death by transforming into a dryad, a being with a life expectancy and strength of constitution and health far beyond mortal range. This spell is used only by high-ranking and somewhat desperate priestesses of Sune, who use it to retain a certain youth and charm and to avoid the shame of being cast out of the clergy when they can no longer hold off the ravages of age. The use of this spell has fallen out of favor in the church, but knowledge of the prayer is retained in the Sunite liturgy.

Upon casting this spell, the caster links herself with a tree and unites with it so that she actually becomes a dryad (as in the MONSTROUS MANUAL tome), losing her spellcasting and other class abilities in the process, but getting all a dryad's powers in their stead. As this spell is not reversible, it is used rarely and only by individuals willing to leave this world and relinquish their positions to a new generation. At the end of the ceremony, the caster must pass a system shock roll or die.

Successful use of this spell requires a tree willing to accept the dryad-tobe (which can be learned by a speak with plants spell), the presence of two willing assistants of the Sunite church (preferably clergy), and the caster's holy symbol. The system shock roll that marks the conclusion of the spell is penalized by -10% for every component of the spell ritual that is missing (for instance, -10% for not finding a willing tree, -10% for only one assistant, etc.).