The Root-Song Inheritance
An ancient forest elf carries the first god of magic’s bequest, a grimoire of gentle enchantments that can turn strangers into allies and call a forest to remember its promises.
Spellbook · Druid · Level 20
The Root-Song Inheritance
An ancient forest elf carries the first god of magic’s bequest, a grimoire of gentle enchantments that can turn strangers into allies and call a forest to remember its promises.
Ex librisElarien Moss-RememberDruidic magic inherited from the old god of magic
At a glance
Level
20
Druid
Spells
8
1 cantrip, 3 signature
Spell slots
1st level
2nd level
3rd level
4th level
5th level
6th level
7th level
8th level
9th level
At the table
A margin note
Plot hook
Spells
8 spellsCantrips
1- Create a harmless natural effect, such as predicting the weather, making a flower bloom, lighting or snuffing a small flame, or producing a brief sensory effect.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- A small natural effect within range
- Components
- V, S
- Source
- Player's Handbook
1st level
2- Charm a beast that can see and hear you. If you or an ally harms it, the spell ends.
- Duration
- 24 hours
- Target
- One beast that can see and hear you
- Components
- V, S, M (a morsel of food)
- Save or attack
- Wisdom saving throw; beasts with Intelligence 4 or higher are unaffected
- Higher levels
- One additional beast for each slot level above 1st
- Conditions
- Charmed
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- Charm a humanoid. When the spell ends, the target knows it was charmed by you.
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Target
- One humanoid you can see
- Components
- V, S
- Save or attack
- Wisdom saving throw; the target has advantage if you or your companions are fighting it
- Higher levels
- Target one additional creature for each slot level above 1st
- Conditions
- Charmed
- Source
- Player's Handbook
2nd level
3- Use a Tiny beast to carry a spoken message to a location you specify, where it seeks a creature matching your description.
- Duration
- 24 hours
- Target
- One Tiny beast
- Components
- V, S, M (a morsel of food)
- Higher levels
- At 3rd level or higher, the journey lasts 7 days for each slot level above 2nd
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- Give a willing creature advantage on ability checks using one chosen ability; the chosen option also grants a specific benefit, and Bear's Endurance grants temporary hit points.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 hour
- Target
- One willing creature
- Components
- V, S, M (fur or a feather from a beast)
- Higher levels
- When cast with a slot of 3rd level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 2nd
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- Paralyze a humanoid that fails its saving throw for the duration.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- One humanoid you can see
- Components
- V, S, M (a small, straight piece of iron)
- Save or attack
- Wisdom saving throw; the target repeats the save at the end of each of its turns
- Higher levels
- Target one additional humanoid for each slot level above 2nd
- Conditions
- Paralyzed
- Source
- Player's Handbook
4th level
1- Creatures in a 10-foot-radius sphere that fail their saves cannot take reactions or bonus actions and roll to determine their behavior each turn.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- Creatures in a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on a point within range
- Components
- V, S, M (three nut shells)
- Save or attack
- Wisdom saving throw; affected creatures repeat the save at the end of each of their turns
- Higher levels
- The sphere's radius increases by 5 feet for each slot level above 4th
- Conditions
- Confused
- Source
- Player's Handbook
8th level
1- Transform any number of willing creatures you can see into Large or smaller beasts with challenge rating 4 or lower; each can change form as a bonus action.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 24 hours
- Target
- Any number of willing creatures within range
- Components
- V, S
- Save or attack
- None; willing creatures only
- Source
- Player's Handbook
In the margins
3 notes
WarningA beast's trust is borrowed, not owed. Let no claw be raised while the charm holds.
DiaryThe old god taught that a command can bend a will, but a song can outlive the singer.
FormulaWhen three leaf-veins align, the page is listening. Speak only what you would ask of a friend.
The book itself
The book smells faintly of rain on old cedar.
Its oldest pages are said to have been written before the first forest had a name.
The druid treats enchantment as kinship and invitation, never as ownership.
The caster
Druidic magic inherited from the old god of magicElarien Moss-Remember
Studies: Enchantment through empathy, old pacts, and the living memory of the forestManner: Patient and soft-spoken, with the calm certainty of someone who measures time in generations of trees.Focus: A forked elderwood staff wrapped with a single silver thread from the folio's first binding.Quirk: Before answering a question, she asks the nearest plant what it thinks, then listens with grave attention.Wants: To discover why the old god's name has vanished from the folio's first leaf, and whether the god can still hear the forest's prayers.Elarien Moss-Remember is a forest elf of immense age, entrusted with the folio by the old god of magic in an era when the forest's oldest trees were saplings. She has spent centuries keeping the book from those who would turn enchantment into domination.
The book
A bark-bound folio whose pages are thin sheets of silver-veined leaves, preserved green by ancient magic. Its shifting script resembles roots, birdsong, and the oldest elven hand.
Its wards · GM only
About the book
FormatBark-bound leaf folio
ThemeEnchantment
Written by aDruid
Caster level20
SystemDungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, 2014 rules
Plot hooks
1A circle of druids claims the folio was entrusted to the elf by the vanished old god of magic, and asks the party to retrieve a page stolen by a rival who seeks to command an ancient treant.
2The book's oldest leaf has begun to wither. Its owner believes the original forest where the god bestowed it still exists, hidden beyond a boundary that has not appeared on any map for centuries.
3A beast once charmed by the elf has returned years later carrying a message in the god's forgotten language.
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