Mystrae's Green Oath

*Type Magic Ritual; School Transmutation
* Prerequisite Race Any elf or Mystrae; HD 3
* Target One noncreature tree
* Components Offerings (1,000 gp), ritual ink (1,500 gp); Foci Green Oath Blade (2,452 gp); Total Cost 4,952 gp
=== Description ===
This ritual allows an elf or Mystrae to partially bind their soul to a tree, gaining special abilities as they grow in power.
The ritualist must kneel before a noncreature tree, to which no other creature is bound, spending 24 hours in communion with the tree, during which time they must make offerings to the tree's spirit and draw a personal sigil onto the base of its trunk. Then, using the Green Oath Blade, the ritualist cuts their own hand, and makes a similar cut above the sigil on the tree, keeping their hand over the sigil and allowing their blood, the tree's sap, and the ink to mix. After this period of meditation, the ritualist's soul becomes partially imbued into the tree, making it their bonded tree.
A bonded tree has the following benefits:
* Hardness equal to (5 + [its bonded creature's HD - 3]).
* Spell resistance against harmful spells equal to (10 + half its bonded creature's HD). This spell resistance also applies to any effect that would animate, move, or otherwise control a normal tree, if even such effects do not normally allow spell resistance.
* Immunity to awaken or other effects that turn it into a creature.
* The bonded creature is instantly alerted if the tree is in immediate danger. This sense works from any distance, and even between planes.
* Can be the target of a scrying effect by the bonded creature, which is always successful.
* When teleporting or Traving to their bonded tree, the bonded creature is always treated as very familiar with the area.
* If the bonded creature prepares or regains spells for the day in the presence of the bonded tree, they may cast a single spell prepared or regained this way without expending it in the next 24 hours. 
Additionally, as the bonded creature gains HD, they unlock new abilities related to their bonded tree:
* At 5 HD, the bonded creature can concentrate to gain a vague awareness of what is going on around the tree. They know if, how many, and of what size creatures are within 60 ft. of the tree, and can get a general sense of what those creatures are doing. For instance, they can tell if the creatures are speaking, but not what they are saying; or if they are casting spell, but not what spells are being cast. This sense works from any distance, but not between planes.
* At 7 HD, the bonded creature may teleport to or from their bonded tree and another tree of the same kind, as tree stride, except they may travel a distance of up to (1 mile per 6 HD). 
* At 9 HD, the bonded creature may be resurrected from their bonded tree as though it were their corpse. A creature resurrected this way emerges unharmed from the bark of their tree, their actual corpse becoming inert.
* At 11 HD, the bonded creature may, if completely willing, choose to permanently fuse with their bonded tree, becoming an Oath Treant.
A bonded tree must be in a permanent location, planted in natural soil. If a bonded tree becomes uprooted, its bonded creature loses access to all special abilities gained from having a bonded tree until the tree has been replanted and allowed to acclimate to its new location for a month. 
A single creature may only be bonded to one tree at a time, and a single tree may only be bonded to one creature at a time. The bond may be broken by the creature at any time, but they must be completely willing to do so. The bond is also broken if the bonded tree is destroyed. In both of these cases, the bonded creature must undergo a year of mourning before a new bond can be established by repeating this ritual. If the bonded creature dies, their bonded tree will appear wilted and sickly for a period of one year. If the bonded creature has not returned to life in that time, it will return to normal health, able to bond to a new creature.
Category:Magic
Category:Magic Rituals
Category:Transmutation Rituals