Living Grove

Required	Earth Shaman 5
Range	500 Yard Radius
Area	Centered on Caster
Duration	1 Week (stacking)
Casting	Verbal, Somatic
Action	2-Hour Ritual
Cost	4 Mana
Effect	The shaman completes a long and complicated ritual to imbue the earth with magic, encouraging plant growth and immediately drawing in up to Rank wild earth elementals, enabling them to manifest as a Small Spirit of the Grove. These spirits will follow basic direction provided by the shaman. The ritual ties the spirits to the surrounding area and will sustain them for up to 1 week or until they are destroyed. She may conduct the ritual once per day, extending the duration of the spell by 1 week per cast. Repeated casting adds 1 Small spirit to an existing Living Grove each day, to reach a maximum of Rank + 3 manifested spirits. Each day, these manifested spirits grow by one size category until they reach Large size unless the shaman requests that a spirit remain small. Generally, if one of the manifested spirits leaves the grove or is destroyed, its connection to the earth is permanently severed, though it will continue to function for Rank hours before the spell fades completely. A new spirit will need to be summoned (i.e., the ritual will need to be recast) to replace it. If the Living Grove is created within an Attuned region, any manifested spirit that is destroyed will be replenished at dawn the next day, as the Ritual allows for the elemental to manifest anew as a Small spirit. Additionally, after about 1 month of maintenance, an Attuned Living Grove gains the ability to support a single Huge spirit in the place of two Large Spirits; however, it may only support one Huge spirit at a time.