Call of the Ancient Tusk

Spell — see Magic and Spellcasting for the rules and the Spell Index for the full list.

Divine 6 Type: summoning (call)

Range: special Duration: 1 day

This spell calls 1d4 mammoths to the caster to serve as companions and/or mounts. In regions where mammoths are extinct, the spell calls a very large and powerful elephant with characteristics identical to a mammoth.

As soon as the spell is cast, the mammoths begin to travel to the caster’s destination at their expedition speed. If the spell is cast in an unsettled hex of terrain with an indigenous mammoth or elephant population, the mammoths will take 1d6 turns to arrive. If the spell is cast in any other type of hex, the time to arrive is increased by 12 turns per 6-mile hex between the caster’s hex and the nearest unsettled hex of native terrain. The time to arrival may be much shorter if the Judge has determined that a mammoth lair is nearby. If called while the caster is unreachable (deep in a dungeon, for example), the mammoths will travel as close as it can to the caster and then wait in that vicinity.

For the spell’s duration, the mammoths will understand the caster’s speech and serve as if they were the caster’s henchmen. They can be ridden as mounts or war mounts as if trained in that role. The spell persists until all the mammoths are slain, the spell is dispelled, or one day passes (at which time the mammoths depart). If the spell is cast again when the mammoths are about to depart, they will remain for another day. Call of the ancient tusk can only be cast once per day.

This spell does not conjure up saddle and tack, nor does it automatically grant the rider the equivalent of Riding proficiency, so unproficient characters who ride the mastodon into battle do so at their own risk.

A prayerful caster who uses a call with ill intent towards the creatures called immediately becomes disfavored. He cannot cast the spell again until he has restored himself to favor. A studious caster or ceremonialist who uses a call with ill intent immediately loses the spell or ceremony from his repertoire. (He can re-learn it if he has the formula.) In neither case do the called animals arrive.