Declare Forest Foe

Tier: First
Concentration: 2 Segments
Range: Touch
Area of Effect: One person
Duration: Permanent
Classification: Benedictions
Spirit Cost: 20

This spell forever marks a person who cares nothing for the environment as an enemy of nature. Strip miners, land developers, polluters, poachers, and arsonists are prime targets of this designation. Once the target has been marked as a forest foe, several things happen:
 

1. His presence is noted to anyone casting Detect Forest Foe.
2. The mark of "forest foe" is visible to anyone using See Into Spirit Plane or similar power.'
3. Animals will avoid this person.
4. Horses, donkeys, and other domesticated animals become as uncooperative as possible with this person.

Sometimes a land-abuser has so much enmity towards nature that he or she will spontaneously develop this mark without the Ranger ever having to cast it. The mark can only be removed by the Ranger who cast the spell, another Ranger of equal level or higher, or by a succession of honest, heartfelt deeds that benefit nature.

A Gunslinger can also remove this Mark (at a -1 level penalty), as can a Necromancer (at a -2 level penalty.)