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'''''Animate wood''''' was a simple [[spell]] common to the [[wu jen]] of [[Kara-Tur]]<ref name="OA1e-p73" />&mdash;particularly those specializing in the power of nature<ref name="OA1e-p73" /> or the [[Wood|element of wood]]<ref name="OA3e-p97" />&mdash;that allowed the caster to [[Animate objects|animate]] a small wooden object.<ref name="OA3e-p97" /> In some worlds, [[druid]]s<ref name="SC-p13" /> and [[shaman]]s maintaining a relationship with a wood spirit<ref name="OA3e-p89">{{Cite book/Oriental Adventures (3rd edition)|89}}</ref> also utilized this spell.

==Effects==
The caster could use this spell to animate a small wooden object by touching it, provided that the object was not possessed by another creature.<ref name="OA3e-p97" /><ref name="SC-p13" /> Some earlier scholars of magic claimed that the maximum size of the wooden object depended on the power of the caster and, furthermore, that living plants could also be animated and at larger sizes&mdash;up to five feet (150 centimeters) tall.<ref name="OA1e-p74" /> Magical wooden objects could resist being animated.<ref name="OA1e-p74" /> The spell took a full six seconds to cast.<ref name="OA3e-p97" /><ref name="SC-p13" />

The wooden object would remain animated, as long as the caster concentrated, for up to six seconds or longer, depending on the power of the caster.<ref name="OA3e-p97" /><ref name="SC-p13" /> While the spell granted flexibility and movement to otherwise rigid wood, the caster could not change the shape of the object, and the movement was slow and stiff. Small trees could be animated, but they could not "walk" as their roots would remain buried in the soil.<ref name="OA1e-p74" /> The animated object would attack whomever the caster designated.<ref name="OA3e-p97" /><ref name="SC-p13" /><ref name="OA1e-p74" />

''Animate wood'' could also be used to temporarily animate beams and planks of wooden sailing vessels and [[spelljammer]]s as a means of damaging their hulls.<ref name="TCSH-pp105-106" />

==Components==
The spell required [[Verbal component|verbal]] and [[somatic component]]s and a [[material component]]&mdash;a mixture of powdered cinnabar and a ground up peach pit.<ref name="OA3e-p97" /><ref name="SC-p13" /><ref name="OA1e-p74" />

==Appendix==
===References===
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[[Category:Transmutation spells]]
[[Category:Alteration spells]]
[[Category:Wu jen wood spells]]
[[Category:Wu jen wood spells (3e)]]
[[Category:Wu jen wood spells (2e)]]
[[Category:Wu jen wood spells (1e)]]
[[Category:Kara-Turan spells]]
[[Category:Druid spells]]
[[Category:Wizard spells]]
[[Category:Wu jen spells]]