Spiritbind (Druid Skill)

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Guild Level:  19
SP Cost:      75 spell points
Skill:        Phytogenesis
Syntax:       spiritbind <player>
              spiritbind status
              spiritbind dispel

Harnessing the power of nature, a druid is capable of binding any player's spirit to a forest-heavy environment. Only a willing player may have his or her spirit bound, and a druid may only sustain one binding at a time. Any binding will dispel itself when the druid leaves the Realm.

In the event of death, a player who is spiritbound will be able to reincarnate himself or herself by floating to the room in which he or she was bound, and issuing the <reincarnate> command.

No further intervention on the part of the druid is required aside from maintaining a physical presence in the Realm to sustain the binding.

Depending upon the skill level of the druid at the time of the reincarnation, there is a chance of failure during the actual reincarnation, in which case the player will remain a ghost. In this situation, the player will either need to pray to the gods for intervention or undergo bodily resurrection.

Commentary

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Spiritbind is useful since it allows an adventurer to reincarnate themselves instead of having to wait for a cleric to resurrect them. If an adventurer dies their corpse will eventually rot, which will prevent any clerical resurrection.

Be absolutely certain a ghost can get to the room in which the living player was spiritbound; a Druid spiritbound to a room in the guild grove is out of luck as a ghost cannot travel to that room.

Nearest spiritbind locations for popular hunting grounds

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Not all flora-heavy locations are viable for spiritbind, only those which specifically contain forests.

Cloch Glais/Beithe

• ocean
• lighthouse
• Astaria

Eerie clearing

• Westkeep
• Starfall (Amazon Forest accessible by ghost?)

Lentide Cove

• Starfall
• Sargaul bog?

3n of Fearn forest

• Sakai
• Ido

The following hunting grounds are, or are very close to, forested locations:

• West Astaria forest
• West Astaria Outpost
• Stranger
• Sakai outpost