Call Nature Spirit
Spell, Low Magic, level 5
Calls one nature spirit of the caster's level, provided enough of its element is at hand; it serves for up to an hour but cannot be bound.
From the book
The caster calls a single nature spirit of any type he wishes. So long as a fair amount of the right element is close by, the spirit comes, arriving within 1-4 minutes. It is always the same level as the caster who called it. It will carry out his instructions for up to 1 hour, but it cannot be bound into lasting service.
At a glance
- Arrival
- 1-4 minutes
- Spirit level
- Equal to the caster's
- Duration
- Serves up to 1 hour; cannot be bound into service
- Requires
- A reasonable quantity of the appropriate element
- Save
- None
- Spell type
- Non-variable
A scene
The canoes cannot get past the rapids below Ulloa, and the shaman Yaku is tired of carrying them overland. He wades into the shallows and calls into the white water. For a few minutes nothing happens. Then the river bulges, and a water spirit rises beside him, a shape of glassy current with a face like a drowned smile. For the rest of the hour it hauls the canoes upstream through the rapids as if they were leaves. When the hour ends it sinks back into the river without a word, and Yaku knows better than to try to keep it.