Raging Griffon — Elf
(Evocation)
Level: 3
Range: 10 yds.
Components: V, S, M
Duration: 9 rds.
Casting Time: 3
Area of Effect: Special
Saving Throw: None
This spell calls into being a translucent, utterly silent, griffon that is an extension of the caster’s will and acts with precise loyalty to his desires. It can be any color the caster wishes in body feathers, hair, eye or talon color, etc., yet the typical golden head and accompanying feathers still remain as its identifying markings. The caster can ride the griffon if he so desires, see through its eyes whenever desired (though not cast spells through it), or command it to fight his foes.
Beings other than the caster can ride the griffon—and even drop onto its back from above, against the caster’s wishes—but the caster can have the spell end and the griffon vanish instantly by a silent act of will. The griffon also disappears if destroyed by cumulative damage. It can fight a creature of the caster’s choice until it of the creature is destroyed, or the caster changes its target. The caster can change the griffon’s target whenever he wishes, as long as he doesn’t cast another spell in the same round.
The griffon can move any distance from the caster without his loss of contact, control, or of it becoming lost. The spell range is only for the purposes of where the griffon appears when the spell is cast. A real griffon does not recognize a raging griffon as a living creature, nor will it view it as a threat unless attacked by it.
The more perplexing part of this spell is only those beings that have blood of House Evanero or later House Evanara in his veins can cast this spell. Otherwise, once it is cast the spell fails and is wasted.
The material components of the raging griffon are a griffon feather and a tuff of hair from a griffon's tail, both gotten without bringing harm to the creature.
Notes: Restricted to elves, and the spell that Laeral Silverhand based her Laeral's raging griffon spell from; rare spell.
Raging Griffon: AC 3; MV 12, Fl 30 (C, D w/rider); HD 7; THAC0 13; #AT 3; Dmg 1d4/1d4/2d8; AL N; SZ L.
