Wonderform - Drow
- SchoolAlteration
- ComponentsV, S
- Range0
- AreaThe caster
- Casting time2
- DurationSpecial
- SaveNone
This spell allows the caster to instantly take on the form of a wingless wonder. No system shock roll is required, and the spell conceals the caster's true alignment with the chaotic neutral aura of a wingless wonder, as well as shielding the caster's mind from all contact: it can't be read, influenced, or attacked. (Drow wizards commonly use this spell to hide from hostile priestesses of the Spider Queen, or intruder-mages unfamiliar with the Underdark).
While in wingless wonder form, a drow wizard can cast any memorized spells desired, purely by force of will. Somatic and verbal components are not necessary; material components are consumed, and a spell will fail without them, but they need not be brandished (instead, they disappear by themselves from the caster's person, under the concealment of the wonderform).
A wizard can remain in wingless wonder form permanently, though 1 point of Intelligence is lost at the end of each full year in wonderform (ignore partial years). The caster can revert to his or her own form at will, or take on another form by casting another spell that enables a change of shape. In either case, the wonderform spell instantly ends; a wizard cannot shift back and forth between normal and wingless wonder form except by casting multiple wonderform spells.
Notes: Restricted to drow, common.
Sources: Wizard's Spell Compendium