Merge with nature

Merge with nature was a powerful divine alteration and necromancy spell used by priestesses devoted to Sune, enabling them to avoid old age by becoming a dryad.

Effects
Priestesses of Sune used this spell to avoid the effects of old age and even death by permanently transforming into a dryad. Only higher-ranking and particularly desperate priestesses used this spell. This spell fell out of favor with the Church of Sune but was retained by the Sunite liturgy.

The caster united herself with a subject tree, allowing her to transform into a dryad. The priestess lost all of her divine abilities in exchange for the powers and skills of a true dryad. The transformation was quite stressful on the priestesses' body, sometimes resulting in their death.

Components
In addition to verbal and somatic components, this spell required as a material component a tree willing to accept the dryad to cast.