Animal Growth

Prayer name: Mercy of St Vinicus A single animal is briefly haloed with glimmering Liturgic script (the text of this prayer), turns its eyes toward the heavens, and doubles in size.

Damage: Double the damage of the animal’s melee attacks.

Load: Double the maximum weight the animal can carry.

Restrictions: This spell may be used on normal or giant animals, but intelligent animals, magical animals, and fantastic monsters are unaffected.

The miracle of St Vinicus, Thrice-Hanged: The young Vinicus served as a vicar’s assistant in an isolated region bordering on a vast swamp. His days were spent cloistered in the church crypts copying Liturgic texts, with mice and shrews his only companions. The animals took to scurrying from their burrows and climbing upon the young priest’s desk, quietly observing his painstaking illumination and calligraphy. When a great storm caused the surrounding swamp and rivers to swell, the church was inundated and the crypts flooded, ruining years of Vinicus’ work. Pitying the mice and shrews whose companionship he held dear, Vinicus prayed for their salvation. The animals were transformed into gigantic stature—as large as ponies—and burrowed out of the crypts unharmed. The great holes they made in the church walls as they escaped were maintained as proof of this miracle. Patronages: Mice, (churchwardens).