Plant Growth

Sphere: Plant
Regency: 15 Req'd Holding: 1
Gold: 0 Character Level: 5
Duration: Permanent

Available only to priests of Erik, this spell enables the priest to accelerate the growth rate of trees and other plants by 100 times. This means that a tree that might normally take 100 years to grow to its full glory, now only takes 1 year. The spell can affect as large an areas as the priest wishes but is limited by the following. First the spell can only be cast on seeds or seedlings that the priest and his followers have personally planted, it has no effect on naturally sprouting plants. Second the spell only effects plants within the same province as the holding.
This spell was first cast by Günther Brandt, of the Oaken Grove of Erik. He was visiting followers in a remote village in the province of Stjolvar when he learned of a group of Bandits that had been threatening the village. Before they were next due to arrive he got his followers to plant seeds from a local fast growing pine in a close circle around the village. He then cast the spell causing all the plants to grow very quickly. As a result when the bandits arrived two weeks later the village was surrounded by a two metre high grove of very thick trees. There was now only one narrow way into the village.

By Ian Hoskins

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