Unbridle the Wild Beast

A merlane can use this spell to release an animal from the effects of domestication or training. Any mundane animal, ranging from a songbird to a bull to a hunting dog, is automatically affected with no saving throw permitted.

The only animals that are allowed a chance to resist the effects of the spell are those under the personal care and attention of a trainer, animals affected by an animal friendship or charm mammal spell, or followers of a druid or ranger. Familiars gained by the find familiar spell are immune to this spell.

An affected animal immediately seeks to flee the area and return to its natural habitat. If prevented from doing so it may become hostile. If the animal is hungry, injured, or frightened, it may lash out at the closest being.

The animal's keeper may try to help the animal resist the spell if he is present. He gets one opportunity to roll his skill at animal handling. For every point by which he makes the roll, the animal gains +1 on its saving throw. For those under the influence of a prior enchantment, the animal has a bonus to resist equal to the level of the spell used to bind the animal (thus a mare that has been tamed via animal friendship gains a +1 on its saving throw). Followers of a druid or ranger resist the spell at the level of their master rather than their own Hit Dice (i.e., a puma follower to an 8th-level ranger saves as if it were 8 Hit Dice).

An animal that becomes wild by this spell may once more be domesticated though the DM may impose certain penalties to any attempt to do so.