This Ritual transforms the species of a person, if that person has a Spirit, into the Player species of their choice. It will not change the basic appearance of the person except for the specific necessary Player species alterations; thus a person that changes species is still recognizable. Any Species Skills of the Target's current species are lost but Skills specific to the new species may be gained in their place depending on the inner strength of the Spirit. In addition, the Target loses any Skills that are more difficult to learn. The transforming player may relearn any Skills lost due to the Species Transformation Ritual if the new species may learn them.
If the species being transformed to cannot have any Skills they possess, the Species Transformation immediately fails. Only Player species as defined by the current REFUGE Rulebook may be chosen.
The Species Transformation Ritual will cause the person to Resurrect as the Transformed species for the rest of the Target's life. A separate Species Transformation Ritual may later be cast on the person to return that person to their prior species or any other species. You cannot use this Ritual to circumvent Spirit Forge's rules and guidelines. Although this Ritual is intended to allow some reallocation of build in regards to Species Skills, it is not intended that players will use it in order to purposefully remove Skills from their character. The following example will indicate why this Ritual could fail: Example: Target is a Stone Elf wishing to change to an Avana. The character possesses the Skill Read Magic. Avana cannot purchase the Read Magic Skill, so the Species Transformation Ritual would fail. The Target would need to undergo a Spirit Forge to remove the Read Magic Skill (or remove it through some other means) before attempting this Ritual.