Callarii Tree-Keeper

These are the elven priest-mages of Ilsundal who tend the Tree of Life.

Skills: Theology (Ilsundal) (IN) (d), Staff (MA) (b), Elf Magic (MP) (e), Reaction Time (PF) (b), Turn Undead (MP) (b), Faith (Ilsundal) (MP) (b), Prayer (Ilsundal) (MP) (b), Religious Ceremony (MP) (d), Craft (Cobbler) (MA) (d), Craft (Weaving) (MA) (d), Bowyer (MA) (d), Fletcher (MA) (d)

Equipment: Staff for the Tree of Life (Extreme Magic Damage)

HP Cost: 16 HP for the first term, 15 HP after the first term

Time Cost: 1 Year

Beliefs of the Tree-Keepers

  1. Ilsundal became an immortal with the creation of the first Life Tree, a magical metaphor that gives power to the faithful. He is the patron of elves and represents nature. The faithful will receive a beneficence of +1 to any survival or other nature-related skills they attempt. Ilsundal can manifest as a wise and aged elf.
  2. The forces of chaos are embodied in the Dimension of Nightmare and the beings that come from there.
  3. Faith is the force that allows priests to gain their powers from on high.
  4. Nature is composed of five spheres of power; Matter, Energy, Thought, Time, and Entropy.
  5. Atzanteotl is the greatest threat to the elves.
  6. The White Forest is the place where loyal followers go after they leave the mortal plane.
  7. The Holy Symbol is a staff gifted from the Tree of Life.
  8. Worship is done through intense prayer while holding the Holy Symbol. Such prayer is performed at dawn each morning.

Prayers of Ilsundal

Prayer for Strength

The level of success of this prayer allows the priest to recover from power detriments at the level of success.

Prayer for Ilsundal

This is a prayer to gain divine intervention for acts involving nature or elves.

Religious Ceremonies

Worship Ceremony

An hour long ceremony that is performed once per day. This serves to raise the mood of the faithful.

High Worship Ceremony

A two hour long ceremony performed only on holy days. This ceremony carries a protection from magic for all faithful participants for twenty four hours at the level of success.

Adoption Ceremony

After an hour of prayers and chants an elf is adopted into the clan.

Ceremony to Anathematize

This ceremony is performed only when an elf has acted totally against all precepts of the elven way. After an hour of prayers and chants an elf is banished from the clan. A clanless elf may not receive Elf Magic. The elf gains a mark that can only be seen by elves that can only be removed by atonement and being adopted anew.

Consecration Ceremony

After a day of prayer and chanting an area is now capable of growing a Tree of Life. There may be only one such Tree for each clan.

Induction Ceremony

After a two hour ceremony an elf is named as an adult.

Investment Ceremony

After four hours of praying and chanting an elf is named as a Tree-Keeper.

Elf Magic (Magic of Ilsundal)

The table below is in addition to the normal Elf Magic table. In addition to the intentions from the table below a Tree-keeper gains other abilities as their skill in the Magic of Ilsundal increases.

Term 1: The ability to channel the powers of the Tree of Life for the purposes of gaining and granting elf magic powers.

Term 2: Turn undead at will by channeling the powers of the Tree of Life.

Term 3: Heal wounds at will by channeling the power of the Tree of Life.

Term 4: Identify magic items by channeling the powers of the Tree of Life.

Term 5: Cure disease at will by channeling the power of the Tree of Life.

Term 6: Neutralize poison at will by channeling the power of the Tree of Life.

Term 7: Cure blindness at will by channeling the power of the Tree of Life.

Term 8: Counter Darkness once per day, this allows the Tree-keeper to do away with magical darkness.

Term 9: Control Weather once per day.

Term 10: Enhance channeling effects to 15 + the level of success.

Term 11: Counter Darkness twice per day.

Term 12: Control Weather twice per day.

Term 13: Enhance channeling effects to 20 + the level of success.

Term 14: Counter Darkness thrice per day.

Term 15: Control Weather thrice per day.

Term 16: Enhance channeling effects to 25 + the level of success.

Term 17: Counter Darkness at will.

Term 18: Control Weather at will.

Term 19: Enhance channeling effects to 30 + the level of success.

Term 20: Enhance the power of elf magic, by touch, by channeling the power of the Tree of Life.

Magical Intentions:

  1. Concealment
  2. Conjure Animal Servants
  3. Destroy Evil
  4. Divination
  5. Dream Vision
  6. Exorcism
  7. Gates
  8. Shapechange
  9. Summon Animal Servant
  10. Transmute Metal to Wood
  11. Transportation
  12. Truesight
  13. Weather Control
  14. Wish

The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life is a relic created by Ilsundal and is the source of the power of the clan. The Tree of Life can bring forth any of the following powers under the action of a Tree-Keeper:

  1. Cure Blindness
  2. Cure Disease
  3. Neutralize Poison
  4. Heal Wound
  5. Identify Magical Item
  6. Turn Undead

Each of these powers are performed at a level of 50. If a power is channeled by a Tree-Keeper at a distance this is reduced to 10 plus the level of success.

Once per month a Tree-Keeper can draw an ounce of sap from the Tree of Life. This sap is then distilled for one full day to become a golden drop. This is a drop of Oil of Sunlight. This Oil has one of several magical properties:

  1. +20 to any attempt to turn undead for a month.
  2. +20 to any channeling of the power of the Tree of Life for a month.
  3. If ingested, the recipient can recover from magical detriments at a rate of 1 per hour during daylight for a month.
  4. A single drop can be placed into a liter of water to make ten Potions of Healing at strength 20.
  5. 100 drops can be used to bind the hull of an Elven Lightboat. This is a permanent effect.
  6. A number of drops can be used to produce a permanent magical item of strength equal to the number of drops used. This can be used to enhance existing magical items (so long as they are not magical due to the use of Oil of Sunlight).

The drop is expended in this use.

An Elven Lightboat can be constructed by harvesting leaves from the Tree of Life. Successful Elf Magic rolls are required each week to harvest one of the large leaves. These leaves are fashioned into the hull of the boat. This process takes one year to complete. When the hull is finished one hundred drops of Oil of Sunlight are required to complete the Lightboat. An Elven Lightboat can carry up to 10 elves through the air at 60 kilometers per hour. The craft produces its own air and thus has no practical altitude restrictions so long as there is still air.

In one month, after successfully harvesting and treating bark from the Tree of Life, a Tree-Keeper can make Elven Boots. These are normal boots whose soles are the treated bark. The level of success is the level of Move Silently that is conferred to the wearer of the boots.

In six months a Tree-Keeper can create an Elven Cloak. Twenty leaves of the Tree of Life are pulped, then drawn into fibers, then woven into the cloth used to make the cloak. The level of success is the level of Invisibility conferred to the wearer of the cloak. This power is activated when the hood of the cloak is raised over the head of the wearer.

The wood of a Tree of Life can be used to make magical bows and arrows. After a year of daily meditation the tree will give up some of its wood. There will be enough wood to make two bows, or twenty arrows. If a bow is made the process takes another year and the bow is +25 to hit and +25 to damage at all ranges. The arrows take a month to make and are +5 to hit and +5 to damage.

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