Transform Beast

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

Divine 2 Type: transmogrification

Range: 90’ Duration: perpetual

This spell allows the caster to change a target animal into the form of another animal that is native to his location. The target’s current form cannot be incorporeal, gaseous, or larger than man-sized. If the target animal is a willing recipient, the transformation automatically occurs when the spell is cast. If the animal is an unwilling target, it must make a Spells saving throw when the spell is cast. If the save succeeds, the spell has no effect. If the save fails, the creature is transformed.

Most animals will be unwilling to be transformed, but if the animal is bewitched by the caster, has been befriended by the caster using Beast Friendship or speak with beasts, or was personally raised and trained by the caster, the animal will trust the caster enough to count as a willing recipient.

While transformed, the animal gains the physical attributes, capabilities, and attacks of the new form, along with the new form’s mental characteristics, intelligence, behavioral traits, and mentality. The target creature will have the same number of hit points it previously had, regardless of the Hit Dice of the form assumed. The new form will always be of around the same relative age as the original form; a bear cub can be transformed into a wolf puppy or tadpole, but not into a silverback gorilla. The target animal is sterile in its new form and cannot reproduce offspring.

The target animal will but dimly remember its former life, and loses any training it has received, although it remains tame if it was previously and can be re-trained. Unless persuaded otherwise by, e.g. a character with Beast Friendship or speak with beasts**,** it will simply engage in behavior that is ordinary for its kind for the duration of the spell. The spell is perpetual, lasting until dispelled or the creature is slain or until the caster dies or decides to stop sustaining the spell. When the spell expires, the target (or target’s corpse) reverts to its original form.

The form must be native to the caster’s location; the caster cannot transform a rabbit into a dinosaur unless in a “lost world” where such creatures still roam the earth. Likewise, the caster cannot transform a camel into a whale in the middle of the desert, or a polar bear into a lion in the middle of the tundra.