Gwidion's Riding Tree

In his old age, Gwidion found it more and more difficult to go outside the covenant and harvest vis, so he created his Talisman. Gwidion's Talisman is a (now) fully grown oak, but due to its various enchantments it has become severely Warped over the years, so that its branches resemble hands, its roots feet, and upon its trunk is a great gnarled face whose expression seems to change with the seasons and the moods of its creator. In his advanced years, Gwidion uses the tree to move around his forest and visit the covenant's farms and bee hives to make sure all is going well. Gwidion has even thought about expanding his tree's size and then simply building his lab right atop it, but as yet he has not gone that far with the great oak.

Vis spent to open: 10 (more vis added later, as a talisman)

Attunements

+7 Protection from Storms

Evergreen

Invested 2 Herbam vis, took 1 season to enchant

CrHe 14

Pen +0, constant effect

R: Personal, D: Sun, T: Individual

This effect keeps the tree in perfect health all year round.

(Base 1, +2 Sun; +3 Size, +3 lvls environmental trigger (sunrise/sunset), +1 lvl 2/day)

Invested 4 Herbam vis, took 1 season to enchant

MuHe(Te) 34

Pen +0, constant effect

R: Personal, D: Sun, T: Individual

This effect makes the tree's trunk and branches as strong as iron.

(Base 4, +2 Sun, +3 Size, +1 Terram Requisite; +1 lvl for 2 uses a day, +3 lvls for environmental Trigger (sunrise/sunset)

Invested 3 Herbam vis, took 1 season to enchant

ReHe 29

Pen +0, constant effect

R: Personal, D: Sun, T: Individual

This effect keeps the tree from growing beyond its original design and thereby invalidating the enchantments already put upon it.

(Effect: Base 4, +2 Sun; +1 lvl for 2 uses a day, +3 lvls for environmental trigger (sunrise/sunset), +3 Size)

Invested 5 Herbam vis, took 1 season to enchant

ReHe 48

Pen 0, unlimited uses

R: Personal, D: Sun, T: Individual

This spell is a more complicated version of the spell Lord of the Trees (ArM5, page 139); it in effect allows Gwidion to move his tree's trunk, branches, and leaves as if it were an extension of his own body.

(Base 10, +2 Sun, +10 lvls unlimited uses, +3 lvls for linked trigger, +3 Size)

Invested 3 Intellego vis, took 1 season to enchant

InMe 34

Pen +0, constant effect

R: Touch, D: Concentration, T: Individual

This effect reads the surface thoughts of all those touching the tree.

(Base 15, +1 Touch, +2 Sun; +1 lvl 2/ day, +3 lvls environmental trigger (sunrise/ sunset))

Invested 3 Ignem vis, took 6 seasons to enchant

ReIg: 54

Pen +0, constant effect

R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Group

Keeps heat and fire at bay, unable to approach within one pace of the tree or those riding atop it, rendering them all immune to damage from flames or heat of intensity less than that of molten iron. The target gets a +15 Soak against all fire-related damage. Any fire doing less than +15 damage per round doesn't penetrate the ward. Such fires simply dim as the tree lumbers past and flare back up after it is gone.

(Base 4, +2 for up to +15 damage, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +2 Group, +1 lvl for 2 uses a day, +3 lvls for environmental trigger (sunrise/sunset), +3 Size)