Transmutation
Level: Cleric of Elinthar 1
Components: V, DF
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 hour

Specialty priests of Elinthar can assume the shape of animals who spiritual endurance is similar to their own. This basically means that the priest can shape change into animals of equal or lesser Hit Die than the priest, gaining that creatures features, senses, and movement rate. The priest essentially shapechanges into the form of a natural animal (i.e. their type must be listed as 'animal' in the Monsterous Manual).

Form's flow requires little attention on the part of the priest -- merely a special prayer given to Elinthar, while holding his holy symbol. His clothing, equipment, and all other items are changed with him, and magical items with passive protection or activation can still be effective. The priest can end the flow at any time, but if after one mark the priest has not reverted, he reverts back to his original form automatically. Some priests light time candles, sing special songs, or recant mantras, so as to keep track of time. A rat in a tunnel could very messily revert to a priest in an area far too small for a human -- killing him.

Once the priest reverts to his original form, he is usually rather weak and exhausted, incurring a -2 penalty to all strength-based checks for every Hit Die of the animal he changed into, for one mark afterwards.