Communicate with Animals

Communicate with Animals
Skill: divination/earthly 16
Backlash: 14
Difficulty: 10
Effect Value: 26
Bonus Number 10: effect
Range: touch
Duration: 13 (five minutes)
Cast Time: 4 (five seconds)
Manipulation: control, duration
The caster must have something from the specific species
of animal with which he wants to communicate (a lock from the mane of a horse,
the claw of a manticore). He places the specific contagion on the ground before
him,
and draws a line in the ground leading
from the object to himself. He draws a second line in the opposite direction.
Compare the effect value to the difficulty of 12. Add the result points to the
caster's. Perception for use in the language skill only. If unskilled,
the caster gains the language skill for the duration of the spell.